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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-ARANSAS-PASS-TX · Aransas Pass, TX 8,807 pop · income 34th 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 Aransas Pass
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Aransas Pass on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Fort Valley · lowest
39,714
Fort Valley · lowest
39,714 median HH income
15.9% of the leader · rank #1
Edneyville · near
59,349
Edneyville · near
59,349 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #2
Hagerstown · near
59,350
Hagerstown · near
59,350 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #3
Angola · near
59,355
Angola · near
59,355 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #4
Aransas Pass · this city
59,359
Aransas Pass · this city
59,359 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #5
Hillsboro · near
59,359
Hillsboro · near
59,359 median HH income
23.7% of the leader · rank #6
Highland Park · highest
250,001
Highland Park · highest
250,001 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 Aransas Pass 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: 8,807.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Aransas Pass - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Aransas Pass lands in the 34th percentile for household income and the 29th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
34th
percentile, household income
46th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
29th
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: Aransas Pass, TX
Texas's Aransas Pass is a small town, with 8,807 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Aransas Pass brings in $59,359 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 11.9%. Typical homes in Aransas Pass are valued around $212,100, and the median resident age is 42.0 years. 15.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 74 residential building permits were authorized in Aransas Pass (Construction Slowdown), down 35% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2118.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score).
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Texas at 97.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Aransas Pass'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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to population change 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 Aransas Pass, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, 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.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Aransas Pass?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Brownfield (8,803 residents, $43,189 income); Paloma Creek South (8,797 residents, $137,585 income); Whitehouse (8,794 residents, $72,500 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Savoy, IL (8,807 residents); Fort Valley, GA (8,808 residents); Baxter, MN (8,804 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.
What does the education layer cover for Aransas Pass?
The NCES join finds 4 public schools within the city match. 15.2% 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.
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.
What does the journey to work look like in Aransas Pass?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Is Aransas Pass 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 +487 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 74 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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 Aransas Pass?
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 2118.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 7% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1830.3
Violent rate
288.4
Total reported rate
2118.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Aransas Pass?
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 11.9%, 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. 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.
Household income
$59,359
Home value
$212,100
Value / income
3.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 11.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Aransas Pass, TX
36/100
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.
Violent crime F
288 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$59,359
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
11.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Aransas Pass profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 35/100 (F) · 288 /100k
Household income: 34/100 (F) · $59,359
Poverty rate: 32/100 (F) · 11.9%
Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.2%
Where Aransas Pass sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Aransas Pass'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 - Aransas Pass highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Aransas Pass, TX (this city): home $212,100, crime 2,119/100k
Baxter, MN : home $298,400, crime 3,254/100k
Boonton, NJ : home $475,300, crime 909/100k
Brownfield, TX : home $109,900, crime 1,692/100k
Whitehouse, TX : home $216,000, crime 449/100k
Highland Park, TX : home $1,887,300, crime 2,516/100k
Pearsall, TX : home $107,300, crime 1,122/100k
Graham, TX : home $173,000, crime 791/100k
How does Aransas Pass compare to other US cities?
Where Aransas Pass sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income34% higher than other cities
Home value46% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety29% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Texas, Aransas Pass ranks #472 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Aransas Pass 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 Aransas Pass near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Aransas Pass ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Aransas Pass only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#871 of 1,520
43rd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#516 of 1,505
66th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#651 of 1,663
61st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#947 of 1,663
43rd 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
34th percentile nationally for median household income · 29th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Aransas Pass's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Aransas Pass'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 Aransas Pass's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$212,100Among 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
Aransas Pass'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
#9,262 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,442 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.6×, Aransas Pass sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,262 of 15,516 and #7,442 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
$59,359Aransas Pass, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Aransas Pass, 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 Aransas Pass, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)11.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,807
Median Income
$59,359
Median Home Value
$212,100
Median Age
42.0
Poverty Rate
11.9%
Labor force participation
52.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2118.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
288.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1830.3
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.
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Aransas Pass's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,355 residents
2021
8,395 residents
2022
8,476 residents
2023
8,612 residents
2024
8,751 residents
2025
8,842 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
74
housing units authorized
Single-Family
74
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
114
114
0
$27.1M
2020
5
5
0
$1.2M
2021
101
101
0
$24.2M
2022
73
73
0
$17.5M
2023
74
74
0
$17.7M
2024
74
74
0
$17.7M
Permit volume decreased 35% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.6%
Carpool
13.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
2.6%
Other
5.5%
Based on 3,608 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 Aransas Pass. 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 Aransas Pass 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 Aransas Pass sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Aransas Pass 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, 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.