Is Shavano Park a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. Shavano Park grades B overall, 147th among Texas's 640 graded towns. The median household earns $165K. Residents are healthier than 91% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. What holds it back is price: the typical home is worth about $924K, 12.1 years of the San Antonio metro’s $76K median household income. 71% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Shavano Park, where Texas’ towns sit at 23% and U.S. towns at 29%. Only 16 of Texas’ 1,000 towns score lower on history. Shavano Park's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 96% of U.S. towns.
What makes Shavano Park stand out
Where Shavano Park beats most towns.
Shavano Park has grown 27% since 2010
3,035 counted in 2010 and 3,524 in 2020; an estimated 3,861 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 9.5% since 2020, after 16.1% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Shavano Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Shavano Park is from typical.
Its grades run from A+ for jobs and income (better than 99% of comparable towns) to D for cost of living (better than 8%), so the B overall blends very different results.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Alamodome and 37 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Shavano Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw13 mi Stadium & arenaAlamodome
12 mi LandmarkAlamo Mission
3 mi Theme parkSix Flags Fiesta Texas
13 mi Stadium & arenaFrost Bank Center
12 mi LookoutTower of the Americas
12 mi Theme parkSeaWorld San AntonioPhoto credits
Alamodome: Billy Hathorn, CC BY 3.0 · Alamo Mission: Zygmunt Put Zetpe0202, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Six Flags Fiesta Texas: Chris Hagerman, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Frost Bank Center: Atristan 77, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Tower of the Americas: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · SeaWorld San Antonio: TheConduqtor, CC BY-SA 3.0
Moving to Shavano Park: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Shavano Park, 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 Shavano Park.
Shavano Park draws workers from San Antonio and beyond, fares better on crime within Texas than nationally and has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns.
Shavano Park’s grade for cost of living is a D
At 12.1 years of the San Antonio metro’s $76K median household income, the typical home (about $924K) costs more against local pay than in 98% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to that grade.
The typical home value in Shavano Park is about $924,000, up 1.1% in a year, 3 times the Texas typical home.
Typical home value
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Public schools in Shavano Park fall behind 57% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Northside ISD. 492 students attend Shavano Park’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blattman ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 492 | A+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
About two in three of Shavano Park’s working residents commute to San Antonio
3,594 jobs are based in Shavano Park, 2.5 for every working resident, so most of the people who work here commute in. The average commute takes 18.5 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
The top destinations are San Antonio (68%), Austin (4%) and Houston (3%). Most people who work leave Shavano Park to do it: just 2% work in town. Also worth knowing: for Shavano Park, the mean commuting time is 19 minutes. Since 2013, Shavano Park has added 2,418 jobs, to 3,594 in 2023.
| Shavano Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $165,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Shavano Park stands out in Texas and nationally, with fewer of its adults who report frequent mental distress
Against the 1,908 U.S. towns with household incomes like Shavano Park’s, it is less healthy than 56%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
In Shavano Park, nearly a fifth of adults get no exercise outside work. CDC measures, 31 in all: Shavano Park beats Texas on 22 and trails on 5. Two figures for adults locally: 6.7% smoke cigarettes, 27% have obesity.
| Shavano Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 6.7% | 14% | 14% |
| Obesity (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 37% | 35% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 24% | 19% |
| What stands out | Shavano Park | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.9% | 19.3% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 4.2% | 10.7% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.2% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Shavano Park: mild winters and hot summers
The San Antonio Intl Ap weather station, 5 miles away, records that about 122 days a year reach 90°, more than in 98% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 94.6°, hotter than in 95% of U.S. towns; January nights average 40.3°.
The January low for Shavano Park comes to 40°F. Snow is a rarity.
| Shavano Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 40°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Shavano Park, with inland flooding at the top
Federal aid has come to Shavano Park households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2021. Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in nearly two thirds of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 73% come from inland flooding and 12% from hail. Since 1982, 14 flood insurance claims have been paid out here.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Shavano Park is safer than 62% of U.S. towns, by crime per resident
At 13.9 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 76% of Texas’s graded towns. Violent crime is rare: 3 reported in 2025, 0.8 per 1,000 residents.
Shavano Park’s violent crime rate is 0.8 per 1,000 residents. The property crime rate locally is 10.1 per 1,000 residents.
| Shavano Park | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.8 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 10.1 per 1,000 residents | 10.7 | 9.9 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Conserved land covers 0.1% of Shavano Park
Just 2 of its 2,103 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Shavano Park itself; its outdoors grade is D.
0.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Parks and preserves in Shavano Park: one, of 3 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Salado Creek Greenway | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Shavano Park
Colleges nearby
15 within 15 miles of the center of Shavano Park
About 13 of every 100 Shavano Park residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Every workday, about 3,567 people come to Shavano Park for work
Where Shavano Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Shavano Park
City in Texas, United States
Shavano Park is a city located in Bexar County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,524, an increase over the figure of 3,035 tabulated in 2010. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1956
- Area
- 3.3 sq mi
- Elevation
- 978 ft
Questions about Shavano Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Shavano Park, TX a good place to live?
For most people who can afford it, yes. It grades A for health, B for safety and C+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Shavano Park, TX expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.