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Everything else equal, I think we can all agree that living in a cheaper place is better than living in a more expensive place.
I'd much rather pay $500/mo in rent than $1,000. And I'd rather pay $2 for coffee than $5.
And while every neighbhorhood in San Antonio might be more expensive than living in rural Texas, there are certain neighborhoods that are definitely cheaper.
So what exactly are those San Antonio neighborhoods where your dollar goes a little further -- you can get that one bedroom instead of the studio?
Instead of relying on public opinion and speculation, we wanted to get the facts straight and find out which neighborhoods in San Antonio are the cheapest.
The Cheapest Neighborhoods In San Antonio For 2021
What's the cheapest neighborhood to live in San Antonio for 2021? According to the most recent census data, Wilshire looks to be the cheaptest San Antonio neighborhood to live in.
At this point we should make it clear that you do get what you pay for -- some of these neighborhoods might not be the best places to live in San Antonio. You could be sacrificing location or crime rates in return for more space and cheaper groceries.
Read on to see how we determined the places around San Antonio that deserve a little bragging rights or maybe you're interested in the worst neighborhoods in San Antonio.
Once you're done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from cheapest to most expensive.
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How We Determined The Cheapest San Antonio Hoods In 2021
In order to rank the cheapest places to live in San Antonio, we had to determine what criteria defines "cheap".
Using census and extrapolated BLS data, we arrived at the following set of criteria:
- Overall Cost Of Living
- Rent To Income Ratio
- Median Home Value To Income Ratio
We then ranked each neighborhood with scores from 1 to 295 in each category, where 1 was the cheapest.
Next, we averaged the rankings for each neighborhood to create a cheap neighborhood index.
And finally, we crowned the neighborhood with the lowest cheapest neighborhood index the "Cheapest City Neighborhood In San Antonio." We're lookin' at you, Wilshire.
Read on below to learn more about what it's like to live in the cheapest places San Antonio. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the neighborhoods in the city from cheapest to most expensive.
The 10 Cheapest Neighborhoods To Live In San Antonio For 2021
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Population: 3,198
Cost Of Living Index: 76 (6th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.3 (3rd cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.006 (2nd cheapest)
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Population: 14,272
Cost Of Living Index: 81 (40th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.5 (9th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.012 (43rd cheapest)
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Population: 143
Cost Of Living Index: 80 (26th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.5 (8th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.015 (9cheapest)
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Population: 2,829
Cost Of Living Index: 75 (2nd cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.4 (4th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.016 (120th cheapest)
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Population: 1,420
Cost Of Living Index: 79 (17th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.9 (59th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.013 (57th cheapest)
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Population: 1,566
Cost Of Living Index: 85 (83rd cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.6 (2cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.013 (45th cheapest)
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Population: 6,064
Cost Of Living Index: 80 (26th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.9 (68th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.013 (59th cheapest)
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Population: 1,367
Cost Of Living Index: 89 (122nd cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.6 (20th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.01 (2cheapest)
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Population: 2,061
Cost Of Living Index: 88 (114th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.7 (29th cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.011 (29th cheapest)
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Population: 10,718
Cost Of Living Index: 87 (106th cheapest)
Home Value To Income Ratio: 1.8 (42nd cheapest)
Rent To Income Ratio: 0.012 (34th cheapest)
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Summing Up The Cheapest Places In San Antonio
If you're measuring the neighborhoods in San Antonio where prices are low and it's cheap to live, this is an accurate list.
As we mentioned earlier, the neighborhoods in San Antonio aren't all cheap. Maverick Creek takes the title of the most expensive neighborhood to live in San Antonio.
We ranked the neighborhoods from cheapest to most expensive in the chart below.
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