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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-CUERO-TX · Cuero, TX 8,147 pop · income 40th pct · 6 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 Cuero
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Cuero on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Prairie View · lowest
19,106
Prairie View · lowest
19,106 median HH income
17.2% of the leader · rank #1
Garden Acres · near
62,895
Garden Acres · near
62,895 median HH income
56.7% of the leader · rank #2
Cuero · this city
62,906
Cuero · this city
62,906 median HH income
56.7% of the leader · rank #3
Minto · near
62,917
Minto · near
62,917 median HH income
56.7% of the leader · rank #4
Smithville · near
62,917
Smithville · near
62,917 median HH income
56.7% of the leader · rank #5
Thornton · near
62,917
Thornton · near
62,917 median HH income
56.7% of the leader · rank #6
Camp Hill · highest
110,938
Camp Hill · highest
110,938 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 Cuero 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: 8,147.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Cuero - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Cuero lands in the 40th percentile for household income and the 25th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
40th
percentile, household income
38th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
25th
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: Cuero, TX
Texas's Cuero is a small town, with 8,147 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Cuero report a median income of $62,906 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 19.8%. Cuero's housing stock carries a median value of $185,600, and the median resident age is 39.0 years. Educational attainment runs 14.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 41.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 8 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Growing), up 14% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2371.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 70.9°F with 34.2 inches of precipitation per year and 0.2 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). 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). 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 Cuero'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 reported crime to climate and hazard context to comparison shortlist to schools and households to work and mobility to population change to housing and income to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Cuero, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can the FBI record say about safety in Cuero?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2371.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 4% higher 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.
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 70.9°F, with 34.2 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Cuero?
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 Cleveland (8,137 residents, $54,888 income); Navasota (8,170 residents, $48,646 income); Los Fresnos (8,174 residents, $64,048 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Berkeley, MO (8,149 residents); Camp Hill, PA (8,149 residents); Roxboro, NC (8,144 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Cuero?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 14.1% 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
19.8%
Bachelor's degree+
14.1%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 83.1%. 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
83.1%
Work from home
7.8%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,644 workers age 16+.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +93 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 8 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
8,171
2025 estimate
8,264
Period change
+1.1%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Cuero?
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 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 19.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$185,600
Household income
$62,906
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 19.8% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Cuero, TX
26/100
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.
Household income F
$62,906
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
19.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
827 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Cuero profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 39/100 (F) · $62,906
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.1%
Poverty rate: 14/100 (F) · 19.8%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 827 /100k
Where Cuero sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Cuero'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 - Cuero highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Cuero, TX (this city): home $185,600, crime 2,371/100k
Berkeley, MO : home $80,000, crime 9,009/100k
Camp Hill, PA : home $290,300, crime 1,113/100k
Roxboro, NC : home $138,700, crime 4,517/100k
Ketchikan, AK : home $340,300, crime 2,398/100k
Brentwood, MO : home $276,100, crime 4,039/100k
Tiverton, RI : home $357,700, crime 748/100k
Cleveland, TX : home $153,200, crime 2,459/100k
Navasota, TX : home $167,100, crime 2,557/100k
Los Fresnos, TX : home $123,300, crime 2,406/100k
Kirby, TX : home $159,000, crime 2,312/100k
Prairie View, TX : home $171,900, crime 921/100k
How does Cuero compare to other US cities?
Here's how Cuero stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income40% higher than other cities
Home value38% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety25% 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: Cuero ranks #505 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 Cuero 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 Cuero near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Cuero ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Cuero only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#778 of 1,520
49th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#617 of 1,505
59th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#327 of 1,663
80th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,011 of 1,663
39th 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
40th percentile nationally for median household income · 25th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Cuero's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Cuero'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 Cuero's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$185,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 62% 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
Cuero's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,430 of 15,516
More affordable than 59% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,481 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Cuero sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,430 of 15,516 and #5,481 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$62,906Cuero, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Cuero, 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 Cuero, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)19.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)41.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,147
Median Income
$62,906
Median Home Value
$185,600
Median Age
39.0
Poverty Rate
19.8%
Labor force participation
41.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2371.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
826.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1544.4
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
70.9°F
Annual Precipitation
34.2"
Annual Snowfall
0.2"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Cuero's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,171 residents
2021
8,173 residents
2022
8,137 residents
2023
8,239 residents
2024
8,284 residents
2025
8,264 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Growing
Total Permits (2024)
8
housing units authorized
Single-Family
8
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
7
7
0
$1.4M
2020
4
4
0
$0.8M
2021
11
11
0
$2.4M
2022
21
21
0
$5.1M
2023
12
12
0
$3.3M
2024
8
8
0
$2.4M
Permit volume increased 14% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
83.1%
Carpool
3.4%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
7.8%
Other
3.1%
Based on 2,644 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 Cuero. 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 Cuero 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 Cuero sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Cuero 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.