Best PlacesWaller, TX Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Waller, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Waller ranks 23,857th of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on low taxes by a wide margin, and air quality ranks lowest.
The best neighborhoods in Waller
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.
Waller's strengths and weaknesses
Where Waller ranks high
- Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than 92% of towns
- Cell coverageBetter than 91% of towns
- Big-city accessBetter than 89% of towns
- Internet speedBetter than 87% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than 81% of towns
Where Waller ranks low
- Air qualityBetter than only 2% of towns
- Short commute37.6 minutes each way, better than only 8% of towns
- Healthcare accessBetter than only 9% of towns
- Heat safetyBetter than only 14% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 14% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Waller
A household needs to earn about $83,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Waller home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is only a little above the area's median income of $78,949; the gap is small, which keeps homes within reach of local pay.
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 Waller's effective rate of 1.33%, 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 Waller
Waller runs younger than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Waller.
Who works in Waller, and how
Work in Waller centers on manufacturing and retail trade. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and jobs are growing.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 91%
- Work from home 6%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Waller
Waller has more restaurants and bars per resident than 81% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Waller and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Waller, month by month
Waller sees roughly 104 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 95 degrees. January highs sit near 65, with lows near 45. The comfortable stretch runs February through April and October through December.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 65° | 53° | 45° |
| April | 81° | 70° | 61° |
| July | 95° | 84° | 75° |
| October | 85° | 72° | 61° |
Flying in and out of Waller
George Bush Intcntl/Houston sits about 35 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 23.3 million passengers in 2025, with 214 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Waller
Schools across Waller average a C+, better than 46% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Fields Store ElB · 47% proficient
- Evelyn Turlington ElB · 45% proficient
- High Point ElC+ · 38% proficient
Top middle schools
- Schultz J HB− · 40% proficient
- Navasota J HC− · 30% proficient
- Waller J HC− · 29% proficient
Top high schools
- Katy H SA · 72% proficient
- Magnolia West H SB+ · 53% proficient
- Waller H SC+ · 39% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Waller school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Waller 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 Waller against the other 50,332 towns.
Common questions about living in Waller
Is Waller a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Waller ranks 23,857th of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on low taxes, cell coverage, and big-city access, and lowest on air quality and long commutes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Waller expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $296,118. The overall cost of living runs about 12% below the national average. Set against a $78,949 median income, cost of living beats 64% of towns.
Is Waller safe?
Waller is safer than 47% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $384 per resident a year.
Compare Waller with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Waller. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Waller 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.
Waller detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Waller: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Waller: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Waller: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Waller: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Waller 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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