Sandy OaksTX
A town of 5,874.
Is Sandy Oaks a good place to live?
Sandy Oaks gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $120K for a typical one, or 1.6 years of the San Antonio metro’s $76K median household income. It grades C− overall, 369th among Texas's 640 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. The median household income is $51K, and 17% of residents live below the poverty line. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 98% of U.S. towns. Sandy Oaks's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 99% of U.S. towns. The biggest park or preserve is City Park, at 28 acres.
99% of working residents leave Sandy Oaks for work
Where Sandy Oaks’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Sandy Oaks grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Sandy Oaks is from typical.
Its grades run from A for cost of living (better than 88% of comparable towns) to D− for walkability (better than 3%), so the C− overall blends very different results.
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Alamodome and 37 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Sandy Oaks. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaAlamodome
18 mi LandmarkAlamo Mission
17 mi Stadium & arenaFrost Bank Center
17 mi LookoutTower of the Americas
31 mi Theme parkSix Flags Fiesta Texas
26 mi Theme parkSeaWorld San AntonioPhoto credits
Alamodome: Billy Hathorn, CC BY 3.0 · Alamo Mission: Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Frost Bank Center: Atristan 77, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tower of the Americas: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Six Flags Fiesta Texas: Chris Hagerman, CC BY-SA 3.0 · SeaWorld San Antonio: TheConduqtor, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Sandy Oaks: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Sandy Oaks, 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 Sandy Oaks.
Sandy Oaks trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns and is healthier than towns with similar incomes.
More than half of Sandy Oaks’ working residents commute to San Antonio
Sandy Oaks has 99 jobs for its 1,961 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 34.4 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
Most working residents leave Sandy Oaks for work: only 1% work in town. Sandy Oaks’ average trip to work is 34 minutes, against 25 minutes in Texas’ towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Since 2013, Sandy Oaks has added 78 jobs, to 99 in 2023.
| Sandy Oaks | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 34 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $51,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.2% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Residents of Sandy Oaks are less healthy than 69% of U.S. towns
Against the 6,075 U.S. towns with household incomes like Sandy Oaks’s, it is healthier than 65%, so its C isn’t only a matter of income.
Sandy Oaks beats the Texas average on 2 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 11. 28% of Sandy Oaks adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance, above both the Texas town median (18%) and the median of U.S. towns (8.1%). 70% of adults had a checkup this year in Sandy Oaks.
| Sandy Oaks | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 70% | 74% | 79% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 39% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Sandy Oaks | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.6% | 6.1% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.9% | 5.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 28.1% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Sandy Oaks has mild winters and hot summers
The Poteet weather station, 14 miles away, records that about 132 days a year reach 90°, more than in 99% of U.S. towns. January nights average 41.7°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 95.7°.
Sandy Oaks has warm winters and hot summers. Sandy Oaks’ January low is 42°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Sandy Oaks | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 42°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 96°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a moderate hazard risk in Sandy Oaks
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 54% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Homes in Sandy Oaks sell for about $130K
Homes are within reach (A for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 23 miles. At 1.6 years of the San Antonio metro’s $76K median household income, the typical home costs less against local pay than in 96% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its A for cost of living.
96% of Sandy Oaks households own their home.
| Sandy Oaks | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 96% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,309 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Conserved land covers 0% of Sandy Oaks
Just 0 of its 1,523 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Sandy Oaks itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. City Park | — | 28 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Sandy Oaks
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Sandy Oaks
About 5 of every 100 Sandy Oaks residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
Questions about Sandy Oaks
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Sandy Oaks, TX a good place to live?
Sandy Oaks grades C− overall, better than 22% of U.S. towns and #369 of 640 in Texas. It grades C for health and C for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Sandy Oaks, TX expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $120,000, 59% below the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.