Best PlacesTiki Island, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tiki Island, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Tiki Island ranks 32,391st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on an educated workforce by a wide margin, and disaster risk is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Tiki Island
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Tiki Island's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tiki Island ranks high
- Educational attainmentBetter than 96% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 95% of towns
- Household income$129,063 median, better than 95% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 146 pleasant days a year, better than 91% of towns
Where Tiki Island ranks low
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- QuietBetter than only 1% of towns
- Low vacancyBetter than only 10% of towns
- Tree shadeBetter than only 10% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tiki Island
A household needs to earn about $193,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tiki Island home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $129,063, so buying stretches a typical household.
Where the monthly payment goes
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 Tiki Island's effective rate of 1.46%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Tiki Island
Tiki Island runs older than the country, and households here run smaller than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tiki Island.
Who works in Tiki Island, and how
Work in Tiki Island centers on professional & technical and manufacturing. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 63%
- Work from home 34%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Tiki Island
The coast is about 8 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Tiki Island, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Tiki Island, month by month
Tiki Island sees roughly 146 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 64, with lows near 51. The comfortable stretch runs November through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 64° | 57° | 51° |
| April | 78° | 72° | 67° |
| July | 91° | 85° | 81° |
| October | 83° | 76° | 71° |
Flying in and out of Tiki Island
William P Hobby sits about 32 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.8 million passengers in 2025, with 101 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Tiki Island
Schools across Tiki Island average a C, better than 41% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Oppe ElA · 64% proficient
Top middle schools
- Crosby MiddleC− · 28% proficient
- WeisD− · 14% proficient
Top high schools
- Hitchcock H SB− · 45% proficient
- Texas City H SC+ · 39% proficient
- Ball H SC · 31% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Tiki Island school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Tiki Island 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 Tiki Island against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tiki Island
Is Tiki Island a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tiki Island ranks 32,391st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on an educated workforce, what local pay buys, and high incomes, and lowest on disaster risk and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Tiki Island expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $678,900. The overall cost of living runs about 12% above the national average. Set against a $129,063 median income, cost of living beats 95% of towns.
Is Tiki Island safe?
Tiki Island is safer than 13% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $567 per resident a year.
Compare Tiki Island with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tiki Island. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tiki Island 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.
Tiki Island detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tiki Island: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tiki Island: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tiki Island: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tiki Island: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tiki Island detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- 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.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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