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SheetTX-CEDAR-HILL-TX · Cedar Hill, TX 48,547 pop · income 71st 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 Cedar Hill
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cedar Hill on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hattiesburg · lowest
44,140
Hattiesburg · lowest
44,140 median HH income
30.7% of the leader · rank #1
Longview Heig… · near
90,592
Longview Heig… · near
90,592 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #2
Burien · near
90,597
Burien · near
90,597 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #3
Smithfield · near
90,602
Smithfield · near
90,602 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #4
Cedar Hill · this city
90,608
Cedar Hill · this city
90,608 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #5
Aurora · near
90,612
Aurora · near
90,612 median HH income
63.0% of the leader · rank #6
Poway · highest
143,825
Poway · highest
143,825 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 Cedar Hill 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: 48,547.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cedar Hill - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Cedar Hill places in the 71st percentile for household income and the 33rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
71st
percentile, household income
60th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
33rd
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: Cedar Hill, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 48,547 residents in Cedar Hill, a small city within Texas. Median household income here is $90,608 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.2%. Typical homes in Cedar Hill are valued around $273,200, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. Educational attainment runs 30.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 247 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 10% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 1952.5 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). 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 Cedar Hill'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 housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cedar Hill, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count.
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. Population change
Is Cedar Hill 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 +693 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 247 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 Cedar Hill?
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 74.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Cedar Hill?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.2%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cedar Hill?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Bedford (49,191 residents, $81,393 income); Rockwall (49,605 residents, $114,926 income); Huntsville (46,917 residents, $45,401 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Poway, CA (48,515 residents); Hattiesburg, MS (48,507 residents); Tuckahoe, VA (48,610 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 Cedar Hill?
The NCES join finds 15 public schools within the city match. 30.9% 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
15
Bachelor's degree+
30.9%
Poverty estimate
9.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cedar Hill?
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 1952.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 14% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1772.6
Violent rate
179.9
Total reported rate
1952.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 9.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C
City profile score · Cedar Hill, TX
56/100
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 B
$90,608
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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 C-
180 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Cedar Hill profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 70/100 (B) · $90,608
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.9%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 51/100 (C-) · 180 /100k
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.2%
Where Cedar Hill sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cedar Hill'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 - Cedar Hill highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Cedar Hill, TX (this city): home $273,200, crime 1,953/100k
Poway, CA : home $971,500, crime 718/100k
Hattiesburg, MS : home $153,600, crime 3,687/100k
Bothell, WA : home $871,300, crime 1,479/100k
Cerritos, CA : home $908,600, crime 5,683/100k
Leesburg, VA : home $617,700, crime 1,830/100k
Bedford, TX : home $322,300, crime 1,691/100k
Rockwall, TX : home $382,400, crime 1,519/100k
Huntsville, TX : home $225,800, crime 2,045/100k
Grapevine, TX : home $470,400, crime 2,244/100k
Burleson, TX : home $282,900, crime 1,260/100k
Haltom City, TX : home $194,600, crime 2,075/100k
How does Cedar Hill compare to other US cities?
Here's how Cedar Hill stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income71% higher than other cities
Home value60% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety33% 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: Cedar Hill ranks #447 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 Cedar Hill 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 Cedar Hill near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cedar Hill ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cedar Hill only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#326 of 1,520
79th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#327 of 1,505
78th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#796 of 1,663
52nd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#367 of 1,663
78th 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
71st percentile nationally for median household income · 33rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cedar Hill's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cedar Hill'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 Cedar Hill's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$273,20040th percentilemore affordable than 40% 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
Cedar Hill's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,774 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#929 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Cedar Hill sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,774 of 15,516 and #929 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
$90,608Cedar Hill, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cedar Hill, 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 Cedar Hill, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
48,547
Median Income
$90,608
Median Home Value
$273,200
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
9.2%
Labor force participation
66.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1952.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
179.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1772.6
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
15
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cedar Hill's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
49,108 residents
2021
48,560 residents
2022
48,427 residents
2023
48,926 residents
2024
49,671 residents
2025
49,801 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
247
housing units authorized
Single-Family
247
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
225
77
148
$37.2M
2020
101
99
2
$31.0M
2021
74
74
0
$33.9M
2022
259
247
12
$60.2M
2023
274
274
0
$113.8M
2024
247
247
0
$92.7M
Permit volume increased 10% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
74.4%
Carpool
8.2%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
15.1%
Other
0.7%
Based on 23,816 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 Cedar Hill. 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 Cedar Hill 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 Cedar Hill sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cedar Hill 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.