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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-DONNA-TX · Donna, TX 16,774 pop · income 6th 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 Donna
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Donna on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Braddock Hills · lowest
38,070
Braddock Hills · lowest
38,070 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #1
Trumann · near
38,079
Trumann · near
38,079 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #2
Homeland Park · near
38,079
Homeland Park · near
38,079 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #3
Donna · this city
38,082
Donna · this city
38,082 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #4
Maplesville · near
38,083
Maplesville · near
38,083 median HH income
19.1% of the leader · rank #5
Moraga · highest
199,800
Moraga · highest
199,800 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Donna 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: 16,774.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Donna - the verdict
Nationally, Donna sits in the 6th percentile for household income and the 2nd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
6th
percentile, household income
2nd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
2nd
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: Donna, TX
Donna is a small town in Texas, home to 16,774 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Donna report a median income of $38,082 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 32.1%. Home values in Donna run a median of $68,500, and the median resident age is 28.1 years. 11.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 46.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 23 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 47% from five years earlier. Donna's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 6060.4 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Texas scores 97.1 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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. 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 Donna'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 reported crime to population change to housing and income 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 Donna, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
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.
Question 1
What does the journey to work look like in Donna?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.5%. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Donna?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 6060.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 166% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -104 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 23 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Donna?
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 Taylor (16,767 residents, $71,665 income); Pampa (16,735 residents, $53,458 income); Manor (16,917 residents, $86,477 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Vero Beach, FL (16,785 residents); Estelle, LA (16,761 residents); Moraga, CA (16,790 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.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Donna?
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 1.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 32.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
1.8×
Home value
$68,500
Household income
$38,082
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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 20 public schools within the city match. 11.9% 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
32.1%
Bachelor's degree+
11.9%
Matched public schools
20
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 32.1% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Donna, TX
13/100
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 F
11.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$38,082
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
32.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
1,758 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Donna profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 12/100 (F) · 11.9%
Household income: 4/100 (F) · $38,082
Poverty rate: 0/100 (F) · 32.1%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 1,758 /100k
Where Donna sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Donna'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 - Donna highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Donna, TX (this city): home $68,500, crime 6,060/100k
Vero Beach, FL : home $392,500, crime 318/100k
Moraga, CA : home $1,597,600, crime 578/100k
Marion, IL : home $145,300, crime 3,399/100k
Taylor, TX : home $246,800, crime 2,301/100k
Pampa, TX : home $95,800, crime 2,451/100k
Manor, TX : home $333,800, crime 1,718/100k
Groves, TX : home $153,800, crime 1,405/100k
Humble, TX : home $191,200, crime 11,303/100k
Mercedes, TX : home $107,700, crime 3,611/100k
How does Donna compare to other US cities?
Where Donna sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income6% higher than other cities
Home value2% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety2% 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: Donna ranks #616 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 Donna 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 Donna near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Donna ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Donna only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,396 of 1,520
8th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#1,371 of 1,505
9th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#109 of 1,663
93rd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,155 of 1,663
30th 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
6th percentile nationally for median household income · 2nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Donna's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Donna'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 Donna's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$68,500Among the most affordablemore affordable than 98% 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
Donna's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#997 of 15,516
More affordable than 94% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#30 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 1.8×, Donna sits in the affordable band:
national rank #997 of 15,516 and #30 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
$38,082Donna, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Donna, 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 Donna, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)11.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)32.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
16,774
Median Income
$38,082
Median Home Value
$68,500
Median Age
28.1
Poverty Rate
32.1%
Labor force participation
46.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
11.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
6060.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
1757.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
4302.5
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
20
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Donna's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
16,802 residents
2021
16,803 residents
2022
16,805 residents
2023
16,858 residents
2024
16,860 residents
2025
16,698 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
23
housing units authorized
Single-Family
3
detached homes
Multifamily
20
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
43
43
0
$3.6M
2020
48
48
0
$4.1M
2021
56
56
0
$4.8M
2022
50
50
0
$4.3M
2023
50
50
0
$4.3M
2024
23
3
20
$2.5M
Permit volume decreased 47% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.5%
Carpool
10.3%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
6.3%
Other
1.1%
Based on 5,071 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 Donna. 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 Donna 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 Donna sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Donna 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.