Best PlacesTsaile, AZ Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Tsaile, 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.
Tsaile ranks 48,971st of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low disaster risk by a wide margin, and crime is the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Tsaile
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.
Tsaile's strengths and weaknesses
Where Tsaile ranks high
- Disaster safetyBetter than 99% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than 99% of towns
- QuietBetter than 97% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than 96% of towns
- Nice weatherabout 153 pleasant days a year, better than 93% of towns
Where Tsaile ranks low
- Crime safetyBetter than only 1% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 1% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than only 1% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 2% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than only 3% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Tsaile
A household needs to earn about $8,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Tsaile home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $32,317, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
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 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 1 years, then pulls ahead as rent keeps rising and the mortgage builds equity. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Tsaile
Tsaile runs younger than the country, and households here run larger than average.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Tsaile.
Who works in Tsaile, and how
Work in Tsaile centers on education and health care & social. Unemployment runs well above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 50%
- Work from home 13%
- Transit, walk, or bike 37%
Life in Tsaile
The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across Tsaile.
What the weather is like in Tsaile, month by month
Tsaile sees roughly 153 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 91 degrees. January highs sit near 47, with lows near 12. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 47° | 29° | 12° |
| April | 68° | 49° | 28° |
| July | 91° | 73° | 53° |
| October | 71° | 50° | 30° |
Flying in and out of Tsaile
The nearest airport, Cortez Municipal, is about 77 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Albuquerque International Sunport, about 171 miles away.
Tsaile 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 Tsaile against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Tsaile
Is Tsaile a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Tsaile ranks 48,971st of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low disaster risk, low property taxes, and quiet, and lowest on crime and thin health care access. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Tsaile expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $30,633. The overall cost of living runs about 5% above the national average. Set against a $32,317 median income, cost of living beats 3% of towns.
Is Tsaile safe?
Tsaile is safer than 0% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $1,235 per resident a year.
Compare Tsaile with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Tsaile. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Tsaile 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.
Tsaile detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Tsaile: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Tsaile: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Tsaile: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Tsaile: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Tsaile 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
Move a slider to say how much a measure matters. Zero turns it off.