LaCosteTX
A town of 1,255, settled in 1898. A typical home costs 3 years of the San Antonio metro’s $76K median household income.
Is LaCoste a good place to live?
The best of LaCoste’s subject grades are an A+ for cost of living and an A− for schools; the weakest is a C for walkability. On the outdoors, just 65 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. LaCoste's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 84% of U.S. towns. LaCoste has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes LaCoste stand out
Where LaCoste beats most towns.
1,255 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How LaCoste grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far LaCoste is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to LaCoste: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in LaCoste, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in LaCoste.
Most of LaCoste’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.2 jobs for each of them
The mean commuting time for LaCoste comes to 29 minutes, against 25 minutes in Texas’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Most working residents leave LaCoste for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs in LaCoste grew by 27 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 88. For residents locally, the share who live below the poverty line is 14%.
| LaCoste | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Zillow puts the typical LaCoste home at about $227K
LaCoste: 85% of households live in a home they own, above both Texas’ towns (69%) and U.S. towns (73%).
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
The climate in LaCoste brings mild winters and hot summers
LaCoste’s July high stands at 96°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
LaCoste is less healthy than 64% of U.S. towns
Against the Texas average, LaCoste comes out ahead on 5 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 5. Among adults 18 to 64 in the town, 22% have no health insurance. In LaCoste, 16% of adults report frequent mental distress, and 32% get no exercise outside work.
| LaCoste | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 13% | 12% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 18% | 17% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 30% | 25% |
| What stands out | LaCoste | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 8.9% | 10.7% |
| Fewer adults without reliable transportation | 9% | 10.5% |
| More adults with diabetes | 15.6% | 12.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Moderate risk in LaCoste, with inland flooding at the top
On expected storm and flood damage, LaCoste sits above 54% of U.S. communities. Households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2002. FEMA puts nearly two thirds of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 7% to tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about LaCoste
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of LaCoste
About 5 of every 100 LaCoste residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
99% of working residents leave LaCoste for work
Where LaCoste’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Questions about LaCoste
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is LaCoste, TX expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.