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SheetTX-CONROE-TX · Conroe, TX 96,976 pop · income 56th 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 Conroe
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Conroe on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Edinburg · lowest
57,789
Edinburg · lowest
57,789 median HH income
50.5% of the leader · rank #1
Berwyn · near
75,235
Berwyn · near
75,235 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #2
East Randolph · near
75,240
East Randolph · near
75,240 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #3
Conroe · this city
75,245
Conroe · this city
75,245 median HH income
65.7% of the leader · rank #4
Rincon · near
75,250
Rincon · near
75,250 median HH income
65.8% of the leader · rank #5
Hickman · near
75,250
Hickman · near
75,250 median HH income
65.8% of the leader · rank #6
Atascocita · highest
114,443
Atascocita · highest
114,443 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 Conroe 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: 96,976.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Conroe - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Conroe lands in the 56th percentile for household income and the 35th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
56th
percentile, household income
62nd
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: Conroe, TX
Texas's Conroe is a small city, with 96,976 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Conroe brings in $75,245 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.7%. Conroe's housing stock carries a median value of $283,100, and the median resident age is 32.8 years. 33.6% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 63.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2,425 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 9% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1877.1 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 69.7°F with 51.0 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. 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). 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 Conroe'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 comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to reported crime to work and mobility to schools and households to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Conroe, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, 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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Conroe?
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 3.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Conroe?
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 New Braunfels (98,700 residents, $88,257 income); San Angelo (99,507 residents, $64,146 income); Atascocita (93,926 residents, $114,443 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Orem, UT (97,048 residents); Yakima, WA (96,810 residents); Fayetteville, AR (97,227 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 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 69.7°F, with 51.0 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Conroe?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1877.1 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Conroe?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.5%. 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. 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
76.5%
Work from home
9.8%
Public transit
0.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 47,342 workers age 16+.
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 39 public schools within the city match. 33.6% 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
8.7%
Bachelor's degree+
33.6%
Matched public schools
39
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +28,408 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +31.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2,425 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.
2020 estimate
91,156
2025 estimate
119,564
Period change
+31.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 8.7% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C-
City profile score · Conroe, TX
51/100
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 C+
33.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$75,245
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.
Poverty rate D
8.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
244 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Conroe profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 64/100 (C+) · 33.6%
Household income: 55/100 (C) · $75,245
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 45/100 (D) · 8.7%
Violent crime: 41/100 (D) · 244 /100k
Where Conroe sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Conroe'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 - Conroe highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Conroe, TX (this city): home $283,100, crime 1,877/100k
Orem, UT : home $439,000, crime 1,534/100k
Yakima, WA : home $273,400, crime 2,589/100k
Fayetteville, AR : home $322,500, crime 2,795/100k
Portsmouth, VA : home $229,400, crime 4,613/100k
Suffolk, VA : home $329,600, crime 1,942/100k
New Braunfels, TX : home $315,100, crime 1,440/100k
San Angelo, TX : home $179,300, crime 2,704/100k
Wichita Falls, TX : home $142,600, crime 2,969/100k
Edinburg, TX : home $174,800, crime 2,027/100k
Temple, TX : home $220,300, crime 2,679/100k
How does Conroe compare to other US cities?
Here's how Conroe stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income56% higher than other cities
Home value62% 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.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Texas alone, Conroe ranks #429 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 Conroe 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 Conroe near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Conroe ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Conroe only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#502 of 1,520
67th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#303 of 1,505
80th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#830 of 1,663
50th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#315 of 1,663
81st 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
56th percentile nationally for median household income · 35th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Conroe's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Conroe'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 Conroe's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$283,10038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Conroe's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,928 of 15,516
More affordable than 36% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#276 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.8×, Conroe sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,928 of 15,516 and #276 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$75,245Conroe, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Conroe, 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 Conroe, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)33.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
96,976
Median Income
$75,245
Median Home Value
$283,100
Median Age
32.8
Poverty Rate
8.7%
Labor force participation
63.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
33.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1877.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
243.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1633.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
69.7°F
Annual Precipitation
51.0"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
39
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Conroe's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
91,156 residents
2021
95,444 residents
2022
101,735 residents
2023
108,897 residents
2024
114,661 residents
2025
119,564 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
2,425
housing units authorized
Single-Family
2,069
detached homes
Multifamily
356
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
25
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
2,232
1,180
1,052
$394.9M
2020
1,939
1,545
394
$400.2M
2021
3,081
2,574
507
$679.7M
2022
3,396
1,865
1,531
$602.0M
2023
2,569
1,814
755
$564.4M
2024
2,425
2,069
356
$631.8M
Permit volume increased 9% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
76.5%
Carpool
10.0%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
9.8%
Other
1.9%
Based on 47,342 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 Conroe. 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 Conroe 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 Conroe sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Conroe 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.