The 10 Snobbiest Places In Texas For 2024


The Snobbiest places in Texas are University Park and West University Place for 2024 based on Saturday Night Science.

There are all types when it comes to being a snob in Texas. You’ve got your Wine Snobs, Book Snobs, and, of course, Clothes Snobs. Then there are the Technology Snobs, Car Snobs, and yes, even City Snobsas in, I’m better than you because I live in (insert snooty city here).

How can we tell which Texas cities are the snobbiest? By measuring snobby things, that’s how.

We used Saturday Night Science to look at things like expensive homes, high incomes, and overly educated populations by city in Texas. These are the criteria you’d argue with a friend over a foodie dinner about who’s snobbier.

After analyzing 342 of the state’s most populous areas over 5,000 people, we came up with this ranking of the ten snobbiest places in the state of Texas.

The Texan in these places aren’t snobby, they just know they’re better than you.


Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Summary | Table


Snobbiest Cities In Texas Map

Don’t freak out.

What’s the snobbiest place in Texas? The snobbiest place in Texas is University Park based on the data. If we had their wealth and lifestyle, we’d probably be a little snobby, too.

The most laid back? That would be Marlin.

We’re not so full of ourselves as to make this ranking up from nowhere. So here’s a look at the top ten and more on how we did it. And if you’re curious, Texas is the 32nd snobbiest in the United States.

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The 10 Snobbiest Places In Texas For 2024

University Park, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Drumguy8800 at English Wikipedia | GFDL
Overall SnackAbility

8
/10
Population: 25,179
% Highly Educated: 89.0%
Median Income: $250,001
Median Home Price: $2,037,260
More on University Park: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

West University Place, TX

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

10
/10
Population: 14,963
% Highly Educated: 90.0%
Median Income: $250,001
Median Home Price: $1,706,657
More on West University Place: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Highland Park, TX

Source: Wikipedia User The original uploader was Ansem27 at English Wikipedia | GFDL
Overall SnackAbility

7.5
/10
Population: 8,840
% Highly Educated: 86.0%
Median Income: $249,923
Median Home Price: $2,475,526
More on Highland Park: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Southlake, TX

Source: Wikipedia User NETarrantMan | CC BY 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

10
/10
Population: 30,779
% Highly Educated: 74.0%
Median Income: $250,001
Median Home Price: $1,122,373
More on Southlake: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Bellaire, TX

Source: Public domain
Overall SnackAbility

8
/10
Population: 17,163
% Highly Educated: 80.0%
Median Income: $215,636
Median Home Price: $986,454
More on Bellaire: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Terrell Hills, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Tang Horseman | CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall SnackAbility

9
/10
Population: 5,045
% Highly Educated: 76.0%
Median Income: $199,643
Median Home Price: $840,452
More on Terrell Hills: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Colleyville, TX

Source: Wikipedia User IDidThisThing | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

10
/10
Population: 25,876
% Highly Educated: 69.0%
Median Income: $196,298
Median Home Price: $825,914
More on Colleyville: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

6
/10
Population: 7,746
% Highly Educated: 63.0%
Median Income: $205,288
Median Home Price: $1,003,546
More on Lucas: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Lakeway, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Larry D. Moore | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

9.5
/10
Population: 18,835
% Highly Educated: 73.0%
Median Income: $154,118
Median Home Price: $782,679
More on Lakeway: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Parker, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Fredlyfish4 | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

5
/10
Population: 5,573
% Highly Educated: 61.0%
Median Income: $202,727
Median Home Price: $1,011,628
More on Parker: Data | Crime | Real Estate

Methodology: How we determined the snobbiest cities in the Lone Star State

Do you think wed just come up with this list willy-nilly? Not a chance – we only use Saturday Night Science around here.

We gathered up all of the places in Texas with populations of 5,000 people or more. This left us with a total of 342 places. Then, we looked at each place in terms of these snoot-er-iffic criteria (And no, its not a word. English snob.):

  • Median home price (Higher is snobbier)
  • Median household income (Higher is snobbier)
  • Percent of population with a college degree (Higher is snobbier)

Incomes and college education levels come from the American Community Survey. Home prices come from Zillow.

Turned out this simple criteria was much better at sniffing out the snobby places then more snobby criteria like:

  • Libaries per capita (Higher is snobbier)
  • Museums per capita (Higher is snobbier)
  • Private schools per capita (Higher is snobbier)

From there, we ranked each of our 342 places in each category with scores from one to 342. We then averaged each places ranking into one overall score, where the lowest score went to the snobbiest place in Texas. So lets all flip a table in honor of University Park (with our pinkies up, of course.)

Before you get upset and ruin your blowout or something drastic here, lets remember that this is all in good fun. Would we live in one of these 10 places if we had the chance? Of course, we would.

And it’s not like your real estate agent would ever point out how snobby the town you’re moving to is. We’re here to keep you grounded, even if you’re wearing a monocle.

There You Have It – Now That You’re On Your High Horse

When it comes to snobbery, these places in Texas are heading ever upward. Residents in these communities are well educated, well paid, and appear to have all the sophisticated culture and entertainment of an Ernst Lubitsch film right at their fingertips.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

The snobbiest cities in Texas are University Park, West University Place, Highland Park, Southlake, Bellaire, Terrell Hills, Colleyville, Lucas, Lakeway, and Parker.

If you’re also curious enough, here are the most laid back places in Texas, according to science:

  1. Marlin
  2. Raymondville
  3. Robstown

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Table: The Snobbiest Cities In Texas For 2024

Rank City Population Median Income Average Home Prices Adult Highly Educated
1 University Park, TX 25,179 $250,001 $2,037,260 89.0%
2 West University Place, TX 14,963 $250,001 $1,706,657 90.0%
3 Highland Park, TX 8,840 $249,923 $2,475,526 86.0%
4 Southlake, TX 30,779 $250,001 $1,122,373 74.0%
5 Bellaire, TX 17,163 $215,636 $986,454 80.0%
6 Terrell Hills, TX 5,045 $199,643 $840,452 76.0%
7 Colleyville, TX 25,876 $196,298 $825,914 69.0%
8 Lucas, TX 7,746 $205,288 $1,003,546 63.0%
9 Lakeway, TX 18,835 $154,118 $782,679 73.0%
10 Parker, TX 5,573 $202,727 $1,011,628 61.0%
11 Heath, TX 9,771 $211,522 $701,027 62.0%
12 Prosper, TX 31,507 $178,224 $764,610 65.0%
13 Alamo Heights, TX 7,417 $149,332 $699,020 74.0%
14 Trophy Club, TX 13,251 $183,125 $662,834 66.0%
15 Fulshear, TX 21,552 $170,602 $601,277 73.0%
16 Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 9,917 $150,237 $670,180 67.0%
17 Frisco, TX 202,075 $144,567 $650,075 67.0%
18 Coppell, TX 42,513 $143,817 $591,824 71.0%
19 Flower Mound, TX 76,630 $154,471 $582,405 65.0%
20 Keller, TX 45,320 $162,094 $603,388 59.0%
21 Sunnyvale, TX 7,873 $152,632 $638,548 60.0%
22 Murphy, TX 20,880 $152,847 $583,866 55.0%
23 Bee Cave, TX 8,771 $104,949 $910,939 66.0%
24 Celina, TX 21,501 $142,643 $551,707 53.0%
25 Aledo, TX 5,053 $123,045 $497,638 59.0%
26 Sugar Land, TX 110,077 $132,247 $431,661 61.0%
27 Allen, TX 105,444 $121,259 $506,564 56.0%
28 Dripping Springs, TX 5,495 $104,141 $737,947 60.0%
29 Fairview, TX 10,354 $103,219 $640,850 62.0%
30 Melissa, TX 15,244 $138,465 $450,384 52.0%
31 Helotes, TX 9,140 $124,367 $472,660 52.0%
32 Cedar Park, TX 76,344 $118,903 $489,193 53.0%
33 Mckinney, TX 196,160 $113,286 $506,871 53.0%
34 Leander, TX 62,491 $129,684 $445,365 49.0%
35 Grapevine, TX 50,763 $107,165 $517,910 54.0%
36 Plano, TX 284,948 $105,679 $503,025 58.0%
37 Northlake, TX 6,202 $105,962 $511,249 55.0%
38 Friendswood, TX 40,888 $121,301 $435,930 48.0%
39 Rockwall, TX 47,859 $114,799 $440,779 48.0%
40 Sachse, TX 27,829 $127,888 $443,583 43.0%
41 Katy, TX 22,826 $114,917 $415,489 48.0%
42 Woodway, TX 9,399 $111,014 $368,615 63.0%
43 Roanoke, TX 9,565 $113,171 $429,441 46.0%
44 Richardson, TX 118,063 $94,362 $436,131 56.0%
45 Austin, TX 958,202 $86,556 $533,213 57.0%
46 Corinth, TX 22,502 $116,083 $411,905 43.0%
47 Buda, TX 14,997 $105,378 $411,841 51.0%
48 Mansfield, TX 73,680 $112,465 $423,311 41.0%
49 Midlothian, TX 35,460 $119,323 $443,526 37.0%
50 Fate, TX 19,010 $121,935 $369,189 44.0%
51 Bulverde, TX 5,827 $107,315 $484,817 38.0%
52 The Colony, TX 44,323 $106,518 $403,361 47.0%
53 Willow Park, TX 5,055 $104,931 $415,055 47.0%
54 Mont Belvieu, TX 7,868 $132,010 $413,425 36.0%
55 Pearland, TX 124,478 $111,123 $367,684 46.0%
56 Wylie, TX 57,063 $109,465 $411,646 41.0%
57 Little Elm, TX 48,241 $110,218 $426,402 38.0%
58 Pflugerville, TX 64,528 $111,151 $402,967 40.0%
59 Georgetown, TX 71,788 $87,465 $447,599 47.0%
60 Boerne, TX 18,475 $82,982 $556,332 46.0%
61 Addison, TX 17,026 $78,153 $462,821 58.0%
62 Round Rock, TX 120,465 $91,888 $436,302 41.0%
63 Rowlett, TX 63,291 $110,954 $381,572 38.0%
64 Carrollton, TX 132,284 $95,380 $410,598 42.0%
65 Iowa Colony, TX 9,500 $110,000 $395,615 37.0%
66 Krum, TX 5,627 $105,366 $352,240 44.0%
67 Cibolo, TX 32,640 $116,510 $341,576 39.0%
68 Manvel, TX 11,265 $105,188 $413,399 34.0%
69 Farmers Branch, TX 35,985 $88,282 $372,175 45.0%
70 Aubrey, TX 5,932 $93,071 $378,839 38.0%
71 Nassau Bay, TX 5,215 $74,542 $411,649 50.0%
72 Seabrook, TX 13,558 $96,223 $346,205 40.0%
73 Kennedale, TX 8,590 $112,646 $385,086 29.0%
74 Liberty Hill, TX 5,265 $93,198 $479,584 30.0%
75 Hutto, TX 29,498 $105,743 $367,638 32.0%
76 Lewisville, TX 125,028 $82,006 $395,721 41.0%
77 Anna, TX 18,585 $93,785 $352,841 38.0%
78 New Braunfels, TX 92,993 $85,827 $374,671 38.0%
79 Selma, TX 11,067 $95,692 $305,330 42.0%
80 North Richland Hills, TX 70,114 $88,656 $360,470 36.0%
81 Schertz, TX 42,545 $94,173 $333,518 38.0%
82 Windcrest, TX 5,825 $85,984 $319,618 48.0%
83 Forney, TX 25,269 $102,107 $338,581 33.0%
84 Bedford, TX 49,455 $80,924 $366,367 40.0%
85 Red Oak, TX 14,853 $105,309 $339,153 30.0%
86 Manor, TX 15,341 $96,657 $337,782 31.0%
87 Euless, TX 60,360 $77,403 $347,693 39.0%
88 Irving, TX 254,962 $76,686 $337,139 40.0%
89 Benbrook, TX 24,366 $80,971 $308,272 43.0%
90 Denton, TX 142,262 $71,921 $355,295 39.0%
91 Stafford, TX 17,240 $87,245 $295,633 39.0%
92 Kyle, TX 48,484 $85,199 $331,816 32.0%
93 Wolfforth, TX 5,779 $100,703 $273,241 33.0%
94 Princeton, TX 18,441 $93,586 $332,177 27.0%
95 Midland, TX 132,490 $90,448 $290,629 32.0%
96 Desoto, TX 55,882 $81,736 $323,250 31.0%
97 Saginaw, TX 24,106 $99,752 $310,280 26.0%
98 Sanger, TX 9,041 $86,083 $359,629 25.0%
99 Weatherford, TX 32,168 $78,765 $350,206 28.0%
100 Glenn Heights, TX 16,445 $87,686 $330,758 27.0%
About Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson earned his masters in Business Administration from the Drucker School At Claremont Graduate University. He has written for 39 publications across the country and ran the media relations department at Movoto, a real estate portal based in San Francisco. He has been featured in over 500 publications as an expert in real estate and as an authority on real estate trends.

Nick's the creator of the HomeSnacks YouTube channel that now has over 260,000 subscribers and is an excellent source to learn about different parts of the country.

9 thoughts on “The 10 Snobbiest Places In Texas For 2024

  1. So the more college graduates a city has the more “snobby” it is? Substitute snobby for educated and you’d be correct. And art galleries?! This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a long time.

    1. Obviously, for all your education, you have no common sense… Everyone is now laughing at your butthurt. I think you just proved the authors point… It’s a joke, not a dick, don’t take it so hard.

      Peace and Love, Dallas!

  2. Ya, I agree some lakeway people a snobby. But not all of them are. As for Austin don’t hate on us, we do nothing wrong. And what’s up with Westlake being #10 they should be higher than all of us.

  3. “This article is an opinion based on facts.” No, it isn’t.

    Arlington has 400,000 residents and is about the least snobby place in Dallas.

    And Flower Mound is boring as hell. Nothing to snob about, unless you think Applebee’s is something special.

    Whoever wrote this has never been to any of these towns, and was just browsing Wikipedia, making crap up.

  4. Arlington #3 for snobby?? What are they snobby about? Their lack of driving skills, the crime, the city infrastructure designed by complete morons? Yeah I grew up over there and I cannot stand even driving through there so y’all can have it and snob on. I’ll stay in Plano which amazingly enough isn’t on this list

  5. It’s for FUN!!!! I went to Westlake and feel robbed that we didn’t get in the top 3, I love that they said “clueless meets Friday Night Lights” because it’s SO true. If this offended you then you must REALLY need a life!!!!!!

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