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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-FORT-WORTH-TX · Fort Worth, TX 941,311 pop · income 58th pct · 449 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Fort Worth
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fort Worth on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
El Paso · lowest
58,734
El Paso · lowest
58,734 median HH income
41.5% of the leader · rank #1
Douglasville · near
76,591
Douglasville · near
76,591 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #2
Fort Worth · this city
76,602
Fort Worth · this city
76,602 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #3
Oakhurst · near
76,606
Oakhurst · near
76,606 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #4
Barneveld · near
76,607
Barneveld · near
76,607 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #5
Liberty borou… · near
76,607
Liberty borou… · near
76,607 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #6
San Jose · highest
141,565
San Jose · highest
141,565 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Fort Worth on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 941,311.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fort Worth - the verdict
Fort Worth ranks in the 58th percentile for household income and the 14th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
58th
percentile, household income
61st
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
14th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth is a mid-sized U.S. city in Texas, home to 941,311 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Fort Worth households earn a median of $76,602 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.6%. Fort Worth's housing stock carries a median value of $277,300, and the median resident age is 33.4 years. About 31.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 13,148 residential building permits were authorized in Fort Worth (Growing), up 16% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Fort Worth's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3158.2 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Fort Worth's yearly average temperature at 67.8°F with 32.6 inches of precipitation per year.
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Texas scores 97.1 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). The average commute for Fort Worth workers runs 23.4 minutes, with 72.9% driving alone and 12.9% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Fort Worth's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from within-city variation to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fort Worth, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 449 Census tracts reveal inside Fort Worth?
PlainCities matches 449 Census tracts to this city.
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
What physical conditions frame life in Fort Worth?
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 67.8°F, with 32.6 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Texas is 49.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fort Worth?
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Austin (967,862 residents, $91,461 income); El Paso (678,147 residents, $58,734 income); Dallas (1,299,553 residents, $67,760 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Jacksonville, FL (961,739 residents); Columbus, OH (906,480 residents); San Jose, CA (990,054 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Is Fort Worth growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +104,464 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 13,148 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fort Worth?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3158.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 38% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
Total reported rate
3158.2
Violent rate
458.4
Property rate
2699.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Fort Worth?
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 264 public schools within the city match. 31.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
Poverty estimate
9.6%
Bachelor's degree+
31.7%
Matched public schools
264
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Fort Worth?
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Income and home value move within the same broad scale here. The useful next check is not a generic affordability label, but whether similar-size cities offer a materially different income, housing, or commute trade-off.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.6×
Home value
$277,300
Household income
$76,602
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Fort Worth?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.4 minutes.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Drive alone
72.9%
Work from home
12.9%
Public transit
0.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 460,634 workers age 16+.
Above median income · poverty 9.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Fort Worth, TX
46/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share C+
31.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$76,602
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living C-
97.1 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Poverty rate D
9.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
458 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Fort Worth profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 61/100 (C+) · 31.7%
Household income: 56/100 (C) · $76,602
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.6%
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 458 /100k
Where Fort Worth sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fort Worth's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Fort Worth highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Fort Worth, TX (this city): home $277,300, crime 3,158/100k
Columbus, OH : home $234,500, crime 3,088/100k
San Jose, CA : home $1,187,800, crime 3,195/100k
Indianapolis, IN : home $207,000, crime 4,214/100k
San Francisco, CA : home $1,380,500, crime 4,526/100k
Austin, TX : home $512,700, crime 3,709/100k
El Paso, TX : home $171,700, crime 1,772/100k
Dallas, TX : home $295,300, crime 4,010/100k
San Antonio, TX : home $219,700, crime 5,218/100k
Arlington, TX : home $276,400, crime 2,896/100k
Corpus Christi, TX : home $197,100, crime 3,875/100k
How does Fort Worth compare to other US cities?
Where Fort Worth sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income58% higher than other cities
Home value61% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety14% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Texas alone, Fort Worth ranks #569 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fort Worth against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Texas only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Texas-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Fort Worth near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fort Worth ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fort Worth only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#479 of 1,520
68th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#319 of 1,505
79th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#769 of 1,663
54th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#353 of 1,663
79th percentile in Texas
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Texas only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
58th percentile nationally for median household income · 14th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fort Worth's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fort Worth's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Fort Worth's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$277,30039th percentilemore affordable than 39% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Fort Worth's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,434 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#32 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 3.6×, Fort Worth sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,434 of 15,516 and #32 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$76,602Fort Worth, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fort Worth, TX median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Fort Worth, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)31.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
941,311
Median Income
$76,602
Median Home Value
$277,300
Median Age
33.4
Poverty Rate
9.6%
Labor force participation
64.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
31.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3158.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
458.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2699.8
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
67.8°F
Annual Precipitation
32.6"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
264
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fort Worth's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
923,653 residents
2021
938,082 residents
2022
959,354 residents
2023
983,882 residents
2024
1,008,605 residents
2025
1,028,117 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
13,148
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6,257
detached homes
Multifamily
6,891
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
14
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
11,339
5,063
6,276
$1621.8M
2020
9,568
7,286
2,282
$1559.2M
2021
11,574
7,236
4,338
$1944.0M
2022
11,978
7,421
4,557
$1897.2M
2023
10,060
6,631
3,429
$1752.1M
2024
13,148
6,257
6,891
$2625.7M
Permit volume increased 16% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.4 minutes
Drive Alone
72.9%
Carpool
10.9%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
12.9%
Other
1.6%
Based on 460,634 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Texas statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $223
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Texas at $223 (electricity about $130 , water and sewer about $48 ).
These are Texas statewide averages, not a meter reading for Fort Worth. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Texas's BEA cost-of-living index is 97.1 (Near Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Fort Worth is $1,149/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Texas statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.0 / 100 (Low).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Texas statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Fort Worth sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fort Worth compares to similar-size Texas cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.