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SheetTX-AZLE-TX · Azle, TX 13,734 pop · income 63rd 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 Azle
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Azle on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Isla Vista · lowest
24,428
Isla Vista · lowest
24,428 median HH income
12.4% of the leader · rank #1
Flagler Beach · near
81,193
Flagler Beach · near
81,193 median HH income
41.1% of the leader · rank #2
Azle · this city
81,200
Azle · this city
81,200 median HH income
41.1% of the leader · rank #3
Williamsburg · near
81,200
Williamsburg · near
81,200 median HH income
41.1% of the leader · rank #4
Obetz · near
81,200
Obetz · near
81,200 median HH income
41.1% of the leader · rank #5
Pella · near
81,201
Pella · near
81,201 median HH income
41.1% of the leader · rank #6
Snoqualmie · highest
197,531
Snoqualmie · highest
197,531 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 Azle 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: 13,734.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Azle - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Azle places in the 63rd percentile for household income and the 35th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
63rd
percentile, household income
58th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
35th
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: Azle, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 13,734 residents in Azle, a small town within Texas. The typical household in Azle brings in $81,200 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.9%. Home values in Azle run a median of $263,800, and the median resident age is 35.9 years. Educational attainment runs 22.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 186 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 22% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1878.2 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: 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. 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 Azle'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 Azle, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Azle?
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 Lumberton (13,803 residents, $104,551 income); Port Neches (13,627 residents, $84,335 income); Seabrook (13,617 residents, $109,489 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Ephrata, PA (13,729 residents); Flower Hill, MD (13,743 residents); Cayce, SC (13,718 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 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 13 public schools within the city match. 22.4% 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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,942 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.5% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 186 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 Azle?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1878.2 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
1878.2
Violent rate
233.9
Property rate
1644.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Azle?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.2×
Home value
$263,800
Household income
$81,200
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 9.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Azle, TX
49/100
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.
Household income C+
$81,200
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.
Violent crime D
234 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share D
22.4%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate D
9.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Azle profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $81,200
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 43/100 (D) · 234 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 41/100 (D) · 22.4%
Poverty rate: 40/100 (D) · 9.9%
Where Azle sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Azle'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 - Azle highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Azle, TX (this city): home $263,800, crime 1,878/100k
Ephrata, PA : home $215,100, crime 932/100k
Cayce, SC : home $158,900, crime 3,515/100k
Snoqualmie, WA : home $919,300, crime 1,116/100k
Plover, WI : home $244,500, crime 1,118/100k
Lumberton, TX : home $271,500, crime 538/100k
Port Neches, TX : home $231,000, crime 892/100k
Seabrook, TX : home $332,000, crime 1,527/100k
Forest Hill, TX : home $171,300, crime 1,743/100k
Beeville, TX : home $96,400, crime 3,130/100k
Trophy Club, TX : home $617,000, crime 410/100k
How does Azle compare to other US cities?
Where Azle sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income63% higher than other cities
Home value58% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety35% 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, Azle ranks #431 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 Azle 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 Azle near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Azle ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Azle only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#424 of 1,520
72nd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#357 of 1,505
76th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#756 of 1,663
54th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#586 of 1,663
64th 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
63rd percentile nationally for median household income · 35th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Azle's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Azle'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 Azle's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$263,80042nd percentilemore affordable than 42% 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
Azle's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,908 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,233 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Azle sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,908 of 15,516 and #1,233 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
$81,200Azle, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Azle, 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 Azle, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,734
Median Income
$81,200
Median Home Value
$263,800
Median Age
35.9
Poverty Rate
9.9%
Labor force participation
61.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1878.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
233.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1644.3
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
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Azle's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,423 residents
2021
13,525 residents
2022
13,976 residents
2023
14,601 residents
2024
15,032 residents
2025
15,365 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
186
housing units authorized
Single-Family
186
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
13.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
152
152
0
$35.1M
2020
71
71
0
$16.7M
2021
194
194
0
$46.1M
2022
270
270
0
$68.8M
2023
154
154
0
$43.2M
2024
186
186
0
$53.4M
Permit volume increased 22% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.0%
Carpool
5.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
16.3%
Other
1.2%
Based on 6,032 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 Azle. 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 Azle 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 Azle sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Azle 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.