Best PlacesTeec Nos Pos, UT Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood in and around Teec Nos Pos, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Several measures below read low, and the ranked lists name which ones. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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Teec Nos Pos ranks 48,426th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and thin health care access ranks lowest.

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The best neighborhoods in Teec Nos Pos

Map of the best neighborhoods in the Teec Nos Pos area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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Teec Nos Pos' strengths and weaknesses

Top 1%Low disaster risk
Top 1%Low property taxes
Top 3%Heat safety
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare Teec Nos Pos with other towns.

Where Teec Nos Pos ranks high

  • Disaster safetyBetter than 99% of towns
  • Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
  • Heat safetyBetter than 97% of towns
  • QuietBetter than 97% of towns
  • Nice weatherabout 162 pleasant days a year, better than 95% of towns

Where Teec Nos Pos ranks low

  • Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
  • Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of towns
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Big-city accessBetter than only 3% of towns
  • Household income$40,000 median, better than only 3% of towns

What it costs to buy a home in Teec Nos Pos

A household needs to earn about $17,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Teec Nos Pos home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $40,000, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.

Income to buy the median home
$17,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$407
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $65,900 home
Median rent
$867
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$336
Property tax$49
Homeowners insurance$22

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses a national 0.90% effective rate, since no local rate is published, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices, buying tends to cost more than renting for about the first 2 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in Teec Nos Pos

Teec Nos Pos runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
26
younger than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
10%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.6
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1837%
18 to 3423%
35 to 4916%
50 to 6414%
65 and older10%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Teec Nos Pos.


Who works in Teec Nos Pos, and how

Work in Teec Nos Pos centers on health care & social and education. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
6%
below the national average
Unemployment
9.0%
above the national average
Job growth
+5.7%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Health care & social21%
Education15%
Hospitality & food14%
Construction12%
Mining & oil & gas10%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 92%
  • Work from home 6%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 2%

Life in Teec Nos Pos

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Teec Nos Pos.


What the weather is like in Teec Nos Pos, month by month

Teec Nos Pos sees roughly 162 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 92 degrees. January highs sit near 39, with lows near 21. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, August, and September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January39°29°21°
April66°51°37°
July92°77°62°
October67°53°41°

Flying in and out of Teec Nos Pos

The nearest airport, Cortez Municipal, is about 43 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Albuquerque International Sunport, about 206 miles away.

Nearest airport
CEZ
Cortez Municipal, about 43 miles
Airport size
Nonprimary
2 nonstop destinations
Average drive
61 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around Teec Nos Pos

Schools across Teec Nos Pos average a D, better than 8% of towns.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Teec Nos Pos school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


Teec Nos Pos measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Teec Nos Pos against the other 50,332 towns.


Common questions about living in Teec Nos Pos

Is Teec Nos Pos a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Teec Nos Pos ranks 48,426th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low disaster risk, low property taxes, and heat safety, and lowest on thin health care access and tree cover. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is Teec Nos Pos expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $65,900. The overall cost of living runs about 3% below the national average. Set against a $40,000 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.

Is Teec Nos Pos safe?

Teec Nos Pos is safer than 22% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $493 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Teec Nos Pos. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Teec Nos Pos represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

Teec Nos Pos detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for Teec Nos Pos: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in Teec Nos Pos: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of Teec Nos Pos: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in Teec Nos Pos: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

Teec Nos Pos detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.