Best PlacesViolet, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Violet, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. The coast is close, and the measures below put a number on how close. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Violet ranks 25,537th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on the weather by a wide margin, and tree cover ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Violet
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.
Violet's strengths and weaknesses
Where Violet ranks high
- Nice weatherabout 183 pleasant days a year, better than 98% of towns
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 92% of towns
- Housing crash safetyBetter than 84% of towns
- Health outlookBetter than 81% of towns
Where Violet ranks low
- Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 4% of towns
- Disaster safetyBetter than only 9% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 10% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than only 13% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Violet
A household needs to earn about $77,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Violet home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $89,348, 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 Violet's effective rate of 1.25%, 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 Violet
Violet 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 Violet.
Who works in Violet, and how
Work in Violet centers on manufacturing and education. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and employment has held roughly flat.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 86%
- Work from home 10%
- Transit, walk, or bike 5%
Life in Violet
The coast is about 38 minutes away. Distance to the water changes a lot across Violet, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Violet, month by month
Violet sees roughly 183 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 96 degrees. January highs sit near 71, with lows near 49. The comfortable stretch runs October through April.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 71° | 58° | 49° |
| April | 85° | 74° | 66° |
| July | 96° | 85° | 76° |
| October | 87° | 75° | 66° |
Flying in and out of Violet
The nearest airport, Corpus Christi International, is about 6 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is San Antonio International, about 132 miles away.
The best schools in and around Violet
Schools across Violet average a C, better than 36% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Robert Driscoll Jr Stem AcademyD · 20% proficient
Top middle schools
- Tuloso-midway MiddleB · 43% proficient
- Seale J HD · 20% proficient
Top high schools
- Tuloso-midway H SB− · 44% proficient
- Robstown Early College H SC · 30% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Violet school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Violet 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 Violet against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Violet
Is Violet a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Violet ranks 25,537th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on the weather, low taxes, and cell coverage, and lowest on tree cover and summer heat. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Violet expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $276,057. The overall cost of living runs about 16% below the national average. Set against a $89,348 median income, cost of living beats 81% of towns.
Is Violet safe?
Violet is safer than 30% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $451 per resident a year.
Compare Violet with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Violet. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Violet 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.
Violet detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Violet: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Violet: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Violet: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Violet: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Violet 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.