{"id":303752,"date":"2026-05-22T00:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303752\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:45:10","slug":"flower-mound-texas-ranked-no-3-best-place-to-live-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303752\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Mound, Texas, ranked No. 3 best place to live in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest report of the 250 best places to live in 2026-27, the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of <a href=\"https:\/\/realestate.usnews.com\/places\/texas\/flower-mound\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Flower Mound<\/a> was ranked the No. 3 best place to live in the country and the No. 1 best place to live in Texas. Flower Mound is located north of the two major metros, past Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and bordering Grapevine Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Flower Mound\u2019s population grew from over 64,000 in 2010 to more than 81,000 in 2024, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flowermound.gov\/2364\/Demographics\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Flower Mound Economic Development<\/a>. The population is projected to exceed 110,000 by 2045.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. News &amp; World Report used a variety of factors to create its ranking \u2014 such as job market, desirability and quality of life \u2014 as well as a nationwide public survey measuring the qualities people value most in a place to live.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flower Mound had a median household income of $167,151 and an unemployment rate of 2.98%. Renters are paying a median monthly cost of $1,822, while homes have a median value of $553,334.<\/p>\n<p>Three Texas cities rounded out the top 10, as Leander, Frisco and Sugar Land were ranked the No. 8, 9 and 10 best places to live in the country. Meanwhile, Carmel and Fishers, Indiana, were ranked the No. 1 and 2 best places to live, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest report of the 250 best places to live in 2026-27, the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[820,30063,30030,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-303752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatravel","tag-mysatx","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}