6) Sugar Land
With a name as sweet as Sugar Land, who wouldn’t want to live in this unique city? Sugar Land is actually located within Houston and is one of the most affluent and prosperous places in all of Texas. Sugar Land ranks 60th on AreaVibes list of the best places to live in Texas, a ranking that would be way higher if the cost of living didn’t let it down. Unemployment rates in Sugar Land are amongst the lowest in the state, a statistic helped along by its proximity to the huge job market of Houston. The crime rate in Sugar Land is half of that of the rest of the state and high school graduation is 20 percent higher. All of this comes at a cost, however, as housing prices in Sugar Land are almost 100 percent higher than the rest of Texas. Luckily those wealthy Sugar Landers are earning more than 100 percent more than the average Texan.
