{"id":82238,"date":"2025-12-09T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82238\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T21:40:11","slug":"austin-suburb-ranks-in-top-5-best-cities-in-texas-to-move-to-new-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/82238\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin suburb ranks in top 5 best cities in Texas to move to, new report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumeraffairs.com\/movers\/texas\/#editorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:statewide ranking;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">statewide ranking<\/a> named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/education\/article\/eanes-leander-superintendent-search-school-leaders-21205422.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Austin-area suburb Leander;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Austin-area suburb Leander<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/business\/article\/leander-texas-roadhouse-new-restaurant-21075243.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No. 5 best city in Texas;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No. 5 best city in Texas<\/a> to move to for 2025, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/article\/best-small-cities-wallethub-georgetown-leander-21089423.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:other Austin neighbors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">other Austin neighbors<\/a> made the list as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The analysis, conducted by a customer review and news platform called ConsumerAffairs, evaluated the 50 most populated Texas cities across five categories: affordability, safety, economy, health care and education, in addition to overall quality of life, to determine which cities\u00a0were best to move to. Each city earned a score out of 100 possible points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Leander stood out, the analysis said, for its safety ranking\u00a0\u2014 No. 1 statewide\u00a0\u2014 and it also secured the No. 2 spot for its booming economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, the city\u2019s rankings were more modest in other areas. The report ranked Leader No. 12 for health care and education, No. 32 for affordability and No. 40 for quality of life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cLeander\u2019s origin dates back to the 1880s, when a rail line was constructed to connect Austin to Abilene,\u201d the report said. \u201cNowhere among Texas\u2019 largest cities is violent crime less common, and over the past five years, no metro area has experienced faster job growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suburb, which has a population of around 78,000, was also ranked as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/realestate.usnews.com\/places\/rankings\/best-places-to-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:top ten places to live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">top ten places to live<\/a> by U.S. News and World Reports for 2025-2026.<\/p>\n<p>See list of best cities to move to in Texas<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The top four cities on the ConsumerAffairs list were all in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, followed by\u00a0Leander and then Round Rock at No. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent statewide ranking named the Austin-area suburb Leander as the No. 5 best city in Texas to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,27686,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-82238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-consumeraffairs","12":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238","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=82238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}