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SheetTX-COPPERAS-COVE-TX · Copperas Cove, TX 37,149 pop · income 48th pct · 19 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 Copperas Cove
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Copperas Cove on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Muskegon · lowest
46,342
Muskegon · lowest
46,342 median HH income
37.8% of the leader · rank #1
Potlatch · near
68,889
Potlatch · near
68,889 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #2
Copperas Cove · this city
68,900
Copperas Cove · this city
68,900 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #3
Belvedere Park · near
68,900
Belvedere Park · near
68,900 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #4
Rock Hall · near
68,906
Rock Hall · near
68,906 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #5
Medora · near
68,906
Medora · near
68,906 median HH income
56.2% of the leader · rank #6
Midlothian · highest
122,643
Midlothian · highest
122,643 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 Copperas Cove 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: 37,149.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Copperas Cove - the verdict
Copperas Cove ranks in the 48th percentile for household income and the 41st percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
48th
percentile, household income
33rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
41st
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: Copperas Cove, TX
Texas's Copperas Cove is a small city, with 37,149 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Copperas Cove brings in $68,900 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 6.2%. Home values in Copperas Cove run a median of $167,900, and the median resident age is 32.8 years. 21.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 367 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 122% from five years earlier. Copperas Cove reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1673.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. 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. Workers in Copperas Cove report an average commute of 25.7 minutes, with 76.7% driving alone and 8.8% 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 Copperas Cove'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 reported crime to schools and households to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Copperas Cove, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Within-city variation
What can 19 Census tracts reveal inside Copperas Cove?
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 19 Census tracts to this city.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Copperas Cove?
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 1673.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 27% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the education layer cover for Copperas Cove?
The NCES join finds 13 public schools within the city match. 21.2% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Copperas Cove?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Midlothian (37,256 residents, $122,643 income); Mission Bend (37,280 residents, $72,492 income); Farmers Branch (36,254 residents, $87,702 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Leavenworth, KS (37,176 residents); Cedar City, UT (37,202 residents); Muskegon, MI (37,203 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Copperas Cove?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 25.7 minutes.
Public transit
0.1%
Work from home
8.8%
Drive alone
76.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 16,788 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Copperas Cove?
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 6.2%, 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. 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.
Household income
$68,900
Home value
$167,900
Value / income
2.4×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Copperas Cove 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 +3,385 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 367 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
+9.2%
2025 estimate
40,118
2020 estimate
36,733
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Below median income · poverty 6.2% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Copperas Cove, TX
46/100
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.
Poverty rate C
6.2%
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.
Household income D
$68,900
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
21.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
330 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Copperas Cove profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 58/100 (C) · 6.2%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $68,900
Bachelor's+ share: 38/100 (F) · 21.2%
Violent crime: 29/100 (F) · 330 /100k
Where Copperas Cove sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Copperas Cove'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 - Copperas Cove highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Copperas Cove, TX (this city): home $167,900, crime 1,674/100k
Leavenworth, KS : home $176,000, crime 3,084/100k
Cedar City, UT : home $348,000, crime 1,160/100k
Myrtle Beach, SC : home $347,700, crime 6,767/100k
Midlothian, TX : home $369,400, crime 1,078/100k
Farmers Branch, TX : home $322,000, crime 2,749/100k
Socorro, TX : home $131,200, crime 954/100k
La Porte, TX : home $217,100, crime 1,131/100k
Texarkana, TX : home $159,700, crime 2,892/100k
How does Copperas Cove compare to other US cities?
Here's how Copperas Cove stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value33% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety41% 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: Copperas Cove ranks #381 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 Copperas Cove 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 Copperas Cove near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Copperas Cove ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Copperas Cove only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#629 of 1,520
59th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#706 of 1,505
53rd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,013 of 1,663
39th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#635 of 1,663
62nd 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
48th percentile nationally for median household income · 41st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Copperas Cove's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Copperas Cove'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 Copperas Cove's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$167,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 67% 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
Copperas Cove's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,687 of 15,516
More affordable than 76% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#311 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.4×, Copperas Cove sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,687 of 15,516 and #311 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
$68,900Copperas Cove, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Copperas Cove, 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 Copperas Cove, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)21.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)6.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
37,149
Median Income
$68,900
Median Home Value
$167,900
Median Age
32.8
Poverty Rate
6.2%
Labor force participation
52.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
21.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1673.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
330.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1343.4
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
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Copperas Cove's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,733 residents
2021
37,480 residents
2022
37,992 residents
2023
38,679 residents
2024
39,519 residents
2025
40,118 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
367
housing units authorized
Single-Family
273
detached homes
Multifamily
94
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
165
161
4
$21.0M
2020
328
266
62
$39.1M
2021
211
69
142
$24.3M
2022
376
282
94
$40.9M
2023
434
280
154
$51.5M
2024
367
273
94
$38.1M
Permit volume increased 122% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
25.7 minutes
Drive Alone
76.7%
Carpool
10.4%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
8.8%
Other
3.0%
Based on 16,788 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 Copperas Cove. 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 Copperas Cove 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 Copperas Cove sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Copperas Cove 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.