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SheetTX-DE-LEON-TX · De Leon, TX 2,512 pop · income 21st 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 De Leon
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest De Leon on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Cricket · lowest
40,405
Cricket · lowest
40,405 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #1
Farmville · near
50,870
Farmville · near
50,870 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #2
De Leon · this city
50,871
De Leon · this city
50,871 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #3
Tonto Basin · near
50,871
Tonto Basin · near
50,871 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #4
La Crosse · near
50,872
La Crosse · near
50,872 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #5
Keewatin · near
50,872
Keewatin · near
50,872 median HH income
37.4% of the leader · rank #6
Pelican Marsh · highest
136,141
Pelican Marsh · highest
136,141 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for De Leon on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 2,512.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, De Leon lands in the 21st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
21st
percentile, household income
4th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: De Leon, TX
De Leon is a small town in Texas, home to 2,512 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in De Leon brings in $50,871 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 9.6%. Typical homes in De Leon are valued around $79,800, and the median resident age is 39.0 years. About 15.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 67.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 3 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for De Leon workers runs 15.7 minutes, with 75.1% driving alone and 1.1% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.0 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of De Leon'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 schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For De Leon, city-specific coverage includes annual population history, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for De Leon?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 15.8% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in De Leon?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for De Leon?
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.
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Mount Vernon (2,523 residents, $67,097 income); Freer (2,524 residents, $75,521 income); Panorama (2,524 residents, $76,906 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cricket, NC (2,512 residents); Nicoma Park, OK (2,512 residents); Geistown, PA (2,512 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.
What does the journey to work look like in De Leon?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 15.7 minutes.
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.
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.
Population change
Is De Leon growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +104 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.6% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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
2,266
2025 estimate
2,370
Period change
+4.6%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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.
Poverty rate D
9.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$50,871
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
De Leon profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 22/100 (F) · 15.8%
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,871
How does De Leon compare to other US cities?
Here's how De Leon stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income21% higher than other cities
Home value4% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares De Leon 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 De Leon near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, De Leon ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares De Leon only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,118 of 1,520
26th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#1,297 of 1,505
14th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#769 of 1,663
54th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#905 of 1,663
45th 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How De Leon's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$79,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 96% 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
De Leon's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#511 of 15,516
More affordable than 97% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#500 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.6×, De Leon sits in the affordable band:
national rank #511 of 15,516 and #500 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
$50,871De Leon, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context De Leon, 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 De Leon, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)67.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
2,512
Median Income
$50,871
Median Home Value
$79,800
Median Age
39.0
Poverty Rate
9.6%
Labor force participation
67.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.8%
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
De Leon's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
2,266 residents
2021
2,299 residents
2022
2,311 residents
2023
2,324 residents
2024
2,353 residents
2025
2,370 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
15.7 minutes
Drive Alone
75.1%
Carpool
21.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
1.1%
Based on 1,231 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 De Leon. 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 De Leon 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 De Leon sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How De Leon 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, NCES CCD, 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.