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SheetTX-ALVIN-TX · Alvin, TX 27,700 pop · income 48th 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 Alvin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Alvin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Eagle Pass · lowest
54,952
Eagle Pass · lowest
54,952 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #1
Buffalo Soaps… · near
68,750
Buffalo Soaps… · near
68,750 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #2
Friendship · near
68,750
Friendship · near
68,750 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #3
Beaver Dam · near
68,757
Beaver Dam · near
68,757 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #4
Alvin · this city
68,769
Alvin · this city
68,769 median HH income
38.5% of the leader · rank #5
Tyler Run · near
68,783
Tyler Run · near
68,783 median HH income
38.6% of the leader · rank #6
Fulshear · highest
178,398
Fulshear · highest
178,398 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 Alvin 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: 27,700.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Alvin - the verdict
Alvin ranks in the 48th percentile for household income and the 36th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
48th
percentile, household income
46th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
36th
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: Alvin, TX
Alvin is a small city in Texas, home to 27,700 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Alvin households earn a median of $68,769 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.2%. Home values in Alvin run a median of $212,500, and the median resident age is 33.7 years. About 18.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 61.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 282 residential building permits were authorized in Alvin (Rapid Growth), up 30% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1863.2 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 69.3°F with 55.1 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Alvin workers runs 28.1 minutes, with 86.9% driving alone and 5.4% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.0 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Alvin'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to population change to work and mobility to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Alvin, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Alvin?
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 14 public schools within the city match. 18.8% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Alvin?
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 Lake Jackson (27,902 residents, $89,623 income); Eagle Pass (28,186 residents, $54,952 income); Balch Springs (27,181 residents, $70,528 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Homewood, AL (27,697 residents); Mount Pleasant, WI (27,694 residents); Tualatin, OR (27,710 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.
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 69.3°F, with 55.1 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,073 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 282 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Alvin?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.1 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. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Drive alone
86.9%
Work from home
5.4%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 12,946 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Alvin?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1863.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% lower 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
1863.2
Violent rate
229.9
Property rate
1633.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Alvin?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.1×
Home value
$212,500
Household income
$68,769
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 8.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Alvin, TX
45/100
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.
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.
Household income D
$68,769
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate D
8.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
230 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Alvin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 47/100 (D) · $68,769
Poverty rate: 47/100 (D) · 8.2%
Violent crime: 43/100 (D) · 230 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 31/100 (F) · 18.8%
Where Alvin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Alvin'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 - Alvin highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Alvin, TX (this city): home $212,500, crime 1,863/100k
Homewood, AL : home $502,300, crime 2,105/100k
Mount Pleasant, WI : home $269,900, crime 1,846/100k
Tualatin, OR : home $595,800, crime 2,844/100k
East Haven, CT : home $274,900, crime 2,051/100k
Dodge City, KS : home $122,800, crime 1,341/100k
Lake Jackson, TX : home $248,900, crime 2,000/100k
Eagle Pass, TX : home $192,600, crime 2,041/100k
Balch Springs, TX : home $208,200, crime 3,233/100k
Forney, TX : home $323,500, crime 808/100k
Celina, TX : home $458,000, crime 1,467/100k
Fulshear, TX : home $546,200, crime 422/100k
How does Alvin compare to other US cities?
Alvin measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value46% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety36% 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: Alvin ranks #427 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 Alvin 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 Alvin near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Alvin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Alvin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#631 of 1,520
58th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#512 of 1,505
66th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#862 of 1,663
47th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#729 of 1,663
56th 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
48th percentile nationally for median household income · 36th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Alvin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Alvin'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 Alvin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$212,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 54% 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
Alvin's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,145 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,033 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.1×, Alvin sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,145 of 15,516 and #1,033 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$68,769Alvin, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Alvin, 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 Alvin, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
27,700
Median Income
$68,769
Median Home Value
$212,500
Median Age
33.7
Poverty Rate
8.2%
Labor force participation
61.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1863.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
229.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1633.3
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
69.3°F
Annual Precipitation
55.1"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
14
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Alvin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
27,042 residents
2021
27,474 residents
2022
28,159 residents
2023
28,651 residents
2024
29,636 residents
2025
30,115 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
282
housing units authorized
Single-Family
282
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
10.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
217
217
0
$39.8M
2020
285
283
2
$46.5M
2021
345
345
0
$70.0M
2022
183
183
0
$40.5M
2023
382
382
0
$94.4M
2024
282
282
0
$80.9M
Permit volume increased 30% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.1 minutes
Drive Alone
86.9%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
5.4%
Other
0.8%
Based on 12,946 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 Alvin. 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 Alvin 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 Alvin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Alvin 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.