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SheetTX-BOERNE-TX · Boerne, TX 19,509 pop · income 68th 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 Boerne
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Boerne on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Boone · lowest
28,633
Boone · lowest
28,633 median HH income
17.1% of the leader · rank #1
Minden · near
86,806
Minden · near
86,806 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #2
Haviland · near
86,806
Haviland · near
86,806 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #3
Boerne · this city
86,838
Boerne · this city
86,838 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #4
Santa Fe Spri… · near
86,857
Santa Fe Spri… · near
86,857 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #5
McHenry · near
86,865
McHenry · near
86,865 median HH income
52.0% of the leader · rank #6
Cedar Mill · highest
167,037
Cedar Mill · highest
167,037 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 Boerne 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: 19,509.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Boerne - the verdict
Nationally, Boerne sits in the 68th percentile for household income and the 53rd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
68th
percentile, household income
80th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
53rd
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: Boerne, TX
Boerne is a small town in Texas, home to 19,509 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $86,838 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.7%. Home values in Boerne run a median of $437,100, and the median resident age is 38.6 years. 47.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 560 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 53% from five years earlier. Boerne reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1286.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 66.5°F with 37.5 inches of precipitation per year and 0.1 inches of snowfall.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Natural-hazard exposure scores 49.0 out of 100 on FEMA's National Risk Index (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Boerne'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 population change to work and mobility to climate and hazard context to reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to within-city variation to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Boerne, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is Boerne 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 +5,963 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +33.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 560 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Boerne?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Boerne?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Angleton (19,597 residents, $83,981 income); Alton (19,205 residents, $48,777 income); Orange (19,178 residents, $60,183 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Evergreen Park, IL (19,498 residents); Knightdale, NC (19,532 residents); Boone, NC (19,534 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.
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.
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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Boerne?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.5°F, with 37.5 inches of precipitation and 0.1 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
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.
Mean temperature
66.5°F
Annual precipitation
37.5 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.0
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Boerne?
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 1286.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 44% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1178.5
Violent rate
107.9
Total reported rate
1286.4
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 47.0% 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
11
Bachelor's degree+
47.0%
Poverty estimate
6.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Boerne?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 5.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.7%, 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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$86,838
Home value
$437,100
Value / income
5.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 6.7% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C+
City profile score · Boerne, TX
64/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B-
108 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B-
$86,838
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C-
6.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Boerne profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 81/100 (A-) · 47.0%
Violent crime: 69/100 (B-) · 108 /100k
Household income: 66/100 (B-) · $86,838
Poverty rate: 54/100 (C-) · 6.7%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Boerne sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Boerne'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 - Boerne highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Boerne, TX (this city): home $437,100, crime 1,286/100k
Evergreen Park, IL : home $255,700, crime 5,957/100k
Knightdale, NC : home $331,900, crime 3,118/100k
Boone, NC : home $373,600, crime 999/100k
Sweetwater, FL : home $251,000, crime 2,171/100k
Angleton, TX : home $187,400, crime 1,206/100k
Alton, TX : home $126,600, crime 1,924/100k
Orange, TX : home $147,200, crime 1,643/100k
Universal City, TX : home $249,400, crime 2,361/100k
Lakeway, TX : home $695,400, crime 1,299/100k
How does Boerne compare to other US cities?
Where Boerne sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income68% higher than other cities
Home value80% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety53% 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, Boerne ranks #297 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 Boerne 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 Boerne near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Boerne ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Boerne only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#369 of 1,520
76th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#119 of 1,505
92nd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#971 of 1,663
41st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#160 of 1,663
90th 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
68th percentile nationally for median household income · 53rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Boerne's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Boerne'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 Boerne's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$437,10020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Boerne's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#12,946 of 15,516
More affordable than 17% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,624 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.0×, Boerne sits in the pressured band:
national rank #12,946 of 15,516 and #2,624 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$86,838Boerne, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Boerne, 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 Boerne, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
19,509
Median Income
$86,838
Median Home Value
$437,100
Median Age
38.6
Poverty Rate
6.7%
Labor force participation
60.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1286.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
107.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1178.5
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
66.5°F
Annual Precipitation
37.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.1"
Schools
Total Schools
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Boerne's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
18,084 residents
2021
19,383 residents
2022
20,717 residents
2023
21,736 residents
2024
22,732 residents
2025
24,047 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
560
housing units authorized
Single-Family
560
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
28.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
365
365
0
$85.7M
2020
314
314
0
$73.2M
2021
387
387
0
$90.4M
2022
325
325
0
$75.9M
2023
310
310
0
$72.4M
2024
560
560
0
$112.0M
Permit volume increased 53% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.7%
Carpool
8.3%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
16.2%
Other
1.0%
Based on 8,766 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 Boerne. 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 Boerne 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 Boerne sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Boerne 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.