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SheetTX-CORPUS-CHRISTI-TX · Corpus Christi, TX 317,383 pop · income 45th pct · 97 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 Corpus Christi
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Corpus Christi on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
San Juan zona… · lowest
27,500
San Juan zona… · lowest
27,500 median HH income
25.3% of the leader · rank #1
Clarkesville · near
66,316
Clarkesville · near
66,316 median HH income
61.0% of the leader · rank #2
Florin · near
66,323
Florin · near
66,323 median HH income
61.0% of the leader · rank #3
Corpus Christi · this city
66,325
Corpus Christi · this city
66,325 median HH income
61.0% of the leader · rank #4
Lewisburg · near
66,328
Lewisburg · near
66,328 median HH income
61.0% of the leader · rank #5
Pateros · near
66,333
Pateros · near
66,333 median HH income
61.1% of the leader · rank #6
Plano · highest
108,649
Plano · highest
108,649 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 Corpus Christi 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: 317,383.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Corpus Christi - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Corpus Christi lands in the 45th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
45th
percentile, household income
42nd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Corpus Christi, TX
Texas's Corpus Christi is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 317,383 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Corpus Christi households earn a median of $66,325 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 13.1%. Corpus Christi's housing stock carries a median value of $197,100, and the median resident age is 36.3 years. Educational attainment runs 24.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,291 residential building permits were authorized in Corpus Christi (Rapid Growth), up 20% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Corpus Christi's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 3874.9 in FBI UCR data, above the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 73.0°F with 31.7 inches of precipitation per year and 0.2 inches of snowfall.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Corpus Christi report an average commute of 19.8 minutes, with 80.8% driving alone and 4.8% 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 Corpus Christi'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 work and mobility to within-city variation to housing and income to climate and hazard context to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Corpus Christi, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Corpus Christi?
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 80.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.8 minutes.
What can 97 Census tracts reveal inside Corpus Christi?
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 97 Census tracts to this city.
How far does income reach against housing in Corpus Christi?
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 13.1%, 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 Corpus Christi?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Plano (287,339 residents, $108,649 income); Lubbock (261,078 residents, $60,487 income); Laredo (255,949 residents, $63,264 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Riverside, CA (316,241 residents); Stockton, CA (320,470 residents); San Juan zona urbana, PR (320,691 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Corpus Christi?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 73.0°F, with 31.7 inches of precipitation and 0.2 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
73.0°F
Annual precipitation
31.7 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.
Is Corpus Christi growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -1,031 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,291 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
-0.3%
2025 estimate
317,247
2020 estimate
318,278
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Corpus Christi?
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 3874.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 70% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3011.3
Violent rate
863.6
Total reported rate
3874.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Corpus Christi?
The NCES join finds 94 public schools within the city match. 24.3% 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
94
Bachelor's degree+
24.3%
Poverty estimate
13.1%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 13.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Corpus Christi, TX
34/100
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.
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.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$66,325
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
864 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Corpus Christi profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.3%
Household income: 44/100 (D) · $66,325
Poverty rate: 27/100 (F) · 13.1%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 864 /100k
Where Corpus Christi sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Corpus Christi'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 - Corpus Christi highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Corpus Christi, TX (this city): home $197,100, crime 3,875/100k
Riverside, CA : home $542,100, crime 3,422/100k
Stockton, CA : home $412,900, crime 3,785/100k
Santa Ana, CA : home $657,800, crime 2,195/100k
Plano, TX : home $440,600, crime 1,618/100k
Lubbock, TX : home $197,900, crime 3,450/100k
Laredo, TX : home $182,400, crime 1,831/100k
Irving, TX : home $287,300, crime 2,474/100k
Garland, TX : home $248,900, crime 2,221/100k
Arlington, TX : home $276,400, crime 2,896/100k
How does Corpus Christi compare to other US cities?
Where Corpus Christi sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income45% higher than other cities
Home value42% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety8% 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: Corpus Christi ranks #597 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 Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Corpus Christi ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Corpus Christi only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#679 of 1,520
55th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#562 of 1,505
63rd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#586 of 1,663
64th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#519 of 1,663
68th 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
45th percentile nationally for median household income · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Corpus Christi's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Corpus Christi'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 Corpus Christi's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$197,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 58% 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
Corpus Christi's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,537 of 15,516
More affordable than 58% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 3.0×, Corpus Christi sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,537 of 15,516 and #10 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
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
$66,325Corpus Christi, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Corpus Christi, 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 Corpus Christi, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
317,383
Median Income
$66,325
Median Home Value
$197,100
Median Age
36.3
Poverty Rate
13.1%
Labor force participation
58.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3874.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
863.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3011.3
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
73.0°F
Annual Precipitation
31.7"
Annual Snowfall
0.2"
Schools
Total Schools
94
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Corpus Christi's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
318,278 residents
2021
318,180 residents
2022
316,457 residents
2023
316,883 residents
2024
317,147 residents
2025
317,247 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
1,291
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,216
detached homes
Multifamily
75
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,074
1,074
0
$309.6M
2020
1,190
1,190
0
$278.2M
2021
1,470
1,470
0
$351.0M
2022
1,096
1,096
0
$274.4M
2023
1,064
1,064
0
$264.5M
2024
1,291
1,216
75
$360.7M
Permit volume increased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.8 minutes
Drive Alone
80.8%
Carpool
10.5%
Public Transit
1.1%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
4.8%
Other
1.5%
Based on 145,930 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 Corpus Christi. 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 Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Corpus Christi 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.