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SheetTX-ALAMO-HEIGHTS-TX · Alamo Heights, TX 7,443 pop · income 97th pct
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 Alamo Heights
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Alamo Heights on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Old · lowest
49,329
Old · lowest
49,329 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #1
Hewitt · near
182,516
Hewitt · near
182,516 median HH income
92.3% of the leader · rank #2
Lockwood CDP… · near
182,550
Lockwood CDP… · near
182,550 median HH income
92.3% of the leader · rank #3
St. Ann Highl… · near
182,568
St. Ann Highl… · near
182,568 median HH income
92.4% of the leader · rank #4
Alamo Heights · this city
182,819
Alamo Heights · this city
182,819 median HH income
92.5% of the leader · rank #5
Clifton Knoll… · near
182,976
Clifton Knoll… · near
182,976 median HH income
92.6% of the leader · rank #6
Mantua · highest
197,677
Mantua · highest
197,677 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 Alamo Heights 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: 7,443.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Alamo Heights - the verdict
Alamo Heights ranks in the 97th percentile for household income and the 15th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
97th
percentile, household income
94th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
15th
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: Alamo Heights, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 7,443 residents in Alamo Heights, a small town within Texas. Households in Alamo Heights report a median income of $182,819 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.0%. Typical homes in Alamo Heights are valued around $766,000, and the median resident age is 40.6 years. About 74.4% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 64.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 10 residential building permits were authorized in Alamo Heights (Construction Slowdown), down 76% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Alamo Heights's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3041.2 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 97.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 49.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Alamo Heights'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 work and mobility to population change to comparison shortlist to housing and income to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Alamo Heights, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Alamo Heights?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Alamo Heights growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +252 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 10 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Alamo Heights?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Hitchcock (7,480 residents, $77,713 income); Camp Swift (7,505 residents, $63,316 income); Lampasas (7,506 residents, $63,173 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Prairie Grove, AR (7,445 residents); Old, ME (7,439 residents); Palmyra, NJ (7,447 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.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Alamo Heights?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
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 Alamo Heights?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3041.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 33% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2934.5
Violent rate
106.7
Total reported rate
3041.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
Household income A+
$182,819
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
74.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B-
107 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Alamo Heights profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $182,819
Bachelor's+ share: 100/100 (A+) · 74.4%
Poverty rate: 86/100 (A) · 2.0%
Violent crime: 69/100 (B-) · 107 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Alamo Heights sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Alamo Heights'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 - Alamo Heights highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Alamo Heights, TX (this city): home $766,000, crime 3,041/100k
Prairie Grove, AR : home $226,800, crime 618/100k
Palmyra, NJ : home $216,600, crime 2,065/100k
DuBois, PA : home $114,900, crime 1,611/100k
Hitchcock, TX : home $159,500, crime 2,103/100k
Lampasas, TX : home $197,000, crime 3,381/100k
River Oaks, TX : home $202,800, crime 1,414/100k
Monahans, TX : home $159,000, crime 1,751/100k
How does Alamo Heights compare to other US cities?
Where Alamo Heights sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income97% higher than other cities
Home value94% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety15% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Texas and the picture shifts: Alamo Heights ranks #565 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Alamo Heights 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 Alamo Heights near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Alamo Heights ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Alamo Heights only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#34 of 1,520
98th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#30 of 1,505
98th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,346 of 1,663
19th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#25 of 1,663
98th 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
97th percentile nationally for median household income · 15th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Alamo Heights's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Alamo Heights'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 Alamo Heights's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$766,0006th percentilemore affordable than 6% 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
Alamo Heights's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,212 of 15,516
More affordable than 28% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,696 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.2×, Alamo Heights sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,212 of 15,516 and #8,696 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$182,819Alamo Heights, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Alamo Heights, 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 Alamo Heights, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)74.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
7,443
Median Income
$182,819
Median Home Value
$766,000
Median Age
40.6
Poverty Rate
2.0%
Labor force participation
64.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
74.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3041.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
106.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2934.5
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.
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Alamo Heights's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
7,380 residents
2021
7,456 residents
2022
7,570 residents
2023
7,536 residents
2024
7,623 residents
2025
7,632 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
10
housing units authorized
Single-Family
0
detached homes
Multifamily
10
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
41
7
34
$9.8M
2020
37
7
30
$8.6M
2021
69
9
60
$15.7M
2022
1
1
0
$0.8M
2023
29
2
27
$4.0M
2024
10
0
10
$1.3M
Permit volume decreased 76% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
79.4%
Carpool
1.2%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.2%
Work from Home
18.6%
Based on 3,877 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 Alamo Heights. 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 Alamo Heights 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 Alamo Heights sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Alamo Heights 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, 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.