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SheetTX-BEAUMONT-TX · Beaumont, TX 113,710 pop · income 31st pct · 77 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 Beaumont
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Beaumont on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Waterbury · lowest
51,642
Waterbury · lowest
51,642 median HH income
36.5% of the leader · rank #1
Blue Mountain · near
57,527
Blue Mountain · near
57,527 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #2
Beaumont · this city
57,530
Beaumont · this city
57,530 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #3
Sulphur · near
57,531
Sulphur · near
57,531 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #4
Standing Pine · near
57,532
Standing Pine · near
57,532 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #5
Iowa City · near
57,533
Iowa City · near
57,533 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #6
The Woodlands · highest
141,353
The Woodlands · highest
141,353 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 Beaumont 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: 113,710.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Beaumont - the verdict
Nationally, Beaumont sits in the 31st percentile for household income and the 5th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
31st
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
5th
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: Beaumont, TX
113,710 people live in Beaumont, Texas - a mid-sized U.S. city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Beaumont households earn a median of $57,530 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.8%. Home values in Beaumont run a median of $158,800, and the median resident age is 35.3 years. Educational attainment runs 25.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 57.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 197 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 15% from five years earlier. Beaumont's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 4439.5 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). Workers in Beaumont report an average commute of 19.4 minutes, with 86.5% driving alone and 4.1% 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 Beaumont'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 housing and income to within-city variation to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Beaumont, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Beaumont?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.8%, 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.
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.
PlainCities matches 77 Census tracts to this city.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Beaumont?
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 4439.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 95% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Beaumont?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Odessa (114,080 residents, $73,030 income); League City (114,885 residents, $119,870 income); The Woodlands (116,916 residents, $141,353 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Springfield, IL (113,714 residents); Elgin, IL (114,106 residents); Provo, UT (114,303 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Beaumont?
The NCES join finds 38 public schools within the city match. 25.2% 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.
Matched public schools
38
Bachelor's degree+
25.2%
Poverty estimate
15.8%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Beaumont growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,824 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 197 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
-1.6%
2025 estimate
112,967
2020 estimate
114,791
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Beaumont?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 86.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.4 minutes.
Public transit
0.3%
Work from home
4.1%
Drive alone
86.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 49,531 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 15.8% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Beaumont, TX
30/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share D
25.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$57,530
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
15.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
1,137 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Beaumont profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 49/100 (D) · 25.2%
Household income: 31/100 (F) · $57,530
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 15.8%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,137 /100k
Where Beaumont sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Beaumont'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 - Beaumont highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Beaumont, TX (this city): home $158,800, crime 4,440/100k
Springfield, IL : home $155,200, crime 5,813/100k
Elgin, IL : home $252,400, crime 1,369/100k
Provo, UT : home $437,100, crime 1,477/100k
Waterbury, CT : home $185,400, crime 3,241/100k
Carlsbad, CA : home $1,156,900, crime 1,710/100k
Gresham, OR : home $440,000, crime 2,837/100k
Odessa, TX : home $208,000, crime 2,159/100k
League City, TX : home $334,000, crime 1,264/100k
Sugar Land, TX : home $406,600, crime 1,462/100k
Richardson, TX : home $405,600, crime 1,980/100k
Tyler, TX : home $216,400, crime 2,305/100k
How does Beaumont compare to other US cities?
Beaumont measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income31% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety5% 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, Beaumont ranks #608 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 Beaumont 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 Beaumont near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Beaumont ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Beaumont only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#918 of 1,520
40th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#757 of 1,505
50th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#466 of 1,663
72nd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#495 of 1,663
70th 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
31st percentile nationally for median household income · 5th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Beaumont's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Beaumont'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 Beaumont's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Beaumont's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,361 of 15,516
More affordable than 65% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#76 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.8×, Beaumont sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,361 of 15,516 and #76 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$57,530Beaumont, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Beaumont, 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 Beaumont, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
113,710
Median Income
$57,530
Median Home Value
$158,800
Median Age
35.3
Poverty Rate
15.8%
Labor force participation
57.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
4439.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1137.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3302.2
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
38
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Beaumont's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
114,791 residents
2021
113,581 residents
2022
112,544 residents
2023
112,593 residents
2024
113,022 residents
2025
112,967 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
197
housing units authorized
Single-Family
185
detached homes
Multifamily
12
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
232
232
0
$47.5M
2020
247
243
4
$48.8M
2021
308
280
28
$62.7M
2022
309
309
0
$75.6M
2023
226
226
0
$62.6M
2024
197
185
12
$57.3M
Permit volume decreased 15% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.4 minutes
Drive Alone
86.5%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
4.1%
Other
1.6%
Based on 49,531 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 Beaumont. 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 Beaumont 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 Beaumont sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Beaumont 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.