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SheetTX-BEEVILLE-TX · Beeville, TX 13,518 pop · income 21st pct · 9 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 Beeville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Beeville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Storrs · lowest
33,125
Storrs · lowest
33,125 median HH income
17.2% of the leader · rank #1
Beeville · this city
51,250
Beeville · this city
51,250 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #2
Carolina · near
51,250
Carolina · near
51,250 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #3
Toxey · near
51,250
Toxey · near
51,250 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #4
Glacier View · near
51,250
Glacier View · near
51,250 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #5
McGrath · near
51,250
McGrath · near
51,250 median HH income
26.6% of the leader · rank #6
Trophy Club · highest
193,026
Trophy Club · highest
193,026 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 Beeville 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: 13,518.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Beeville - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Beeville lands in the 21st percentile for household income and the 14th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
21st
percentile, household income
8th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
14th
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: Beeville, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 13,518 residents in Beeville, a small town within Texas. Beeville households earn a median of $51,250 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 19.4%. Beeville's housing stock carries a median value of $96,400, and the median resident age is 29.8 years. 9.8% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 14 residential building permits were authorized in Beeville (Slowing), down 18% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Beeville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 3129.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, above the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Beeville's yearly average temperature at 70.6°F with 31.9 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. Commute times here average 18.3 minutes, with 79.9% driving alone and 6.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. 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 Beeville'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 within-city variation to housing and income to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Beeville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 9 Census tracts reveal inside Beeville?
PlainCities matches 9 Census tracts to this city.
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.
How far does income reach against housing in Beeville?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 19.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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 70.6°F, with 31.9 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Beeville?
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 Trophy Club (13,454 residents, $193,026 income); Kilgore (13,444 residents, $58,141 income); Seabrook (13,617 residents, $109,489 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Glen Carbon, IL (13,521 residents); King City, CA (13,512 residents); Vineyard, UT (13,510 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.
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 Beeville?
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 6 public schools within the city match. 9.8% 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.
Poverty estimate
19.4%
Bachelor's degree+
9.8%
Matched public schools
6
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What does the journey to work look like in Beeville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.3 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. 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.
Drive alone
79.9%
Work from home
6.1%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 6,007 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Beeville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3129.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 37% higher 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
3129.5
Violent rate
367.3
Property rate
2762.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Beeville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -573 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -4.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 14 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 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.
2020 estimate
13,659
2025 estimate
13,086
Period change
-4.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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
367 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$51,250
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
9.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Beeville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 24/100 (F) · 367 /100k
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,250
Poverty rate: 14/100 (F) · 19.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 6/100 (F) · 9.8%
Where Beeville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Beeville'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 - Beeville highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Beeville, TX (this city): home $96,400, crime 3,130/100k
Glen Carbon, IL : home $278,200, crime 1,168/100k
King City, CA : home $395,800, crime 978/100k
University Heights, OH : home $224,900, crime 1,206/100k
Eatontown, NJ : home $454,300, crime 2,108/100k
Trophy Club, TX : home $617,000, crime 410/100k
Kilgore, TX : home $154,600, crime 2,535/100k
Seabrook, TX : home $332,000, crime 1,527/100k
Andrews, TX : home $186,700, crime 1,563/100k
Port Neches, TX : home $231,000, crime 892/100k
Henderson, TX : home $166,900, crime 3,163/100k
How does Beeville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Beeville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income21% higher than other cities
Home value8% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety14% 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: Beeville ranks #568 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 Beeville 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 Beeville near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Beeville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Beeville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,105 of 1,520
27th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#1,160 of 1,505
23rd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#340 of 1,663
79th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,266 of 1,663
24th 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income · 14th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Beeville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Beeville'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 Beeville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$96,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 92% 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
Beeville's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,239 of 15,516
More affordable than 92% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#43 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 1.9×, Beeville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,239 of 15,516 and #43 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$51,250Beeville, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Beeville, 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 Beeville, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)9.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,518
Median Income
$51,250
Median Home Value
$96,400
Median Age
29.8
Poverty Rate
19.4%
Labor force participation
59.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
9.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3129.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
367.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2762.3
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
70.6°F
Annual Precipitation
31.9"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Beeville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,659 residents
2021
13,645 residents
2022
13,334 residents
2023
13,266 residents
2024
13,193 residents
2025
13,086 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
14
housing units authorized
Single-Family
14
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
17
11
6
$1.8M
2020
31
19
12
$5.1M
2021
6
6
0
$1.3M
2022
13
13
0
$2.3M
2023
13
13
0
$2.3M
2024
14
14
0
$1.7M
Permit volume decreased 18% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.3 minutes
Drive Alone
79.9%
Carpool
9.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
6.1%
Other
1.9%
Based on 6,007 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 Beeville. 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 Beeville 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 Beeville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Beeville 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.