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SheetTX-EASTLAND-TX · Eastland, TX 3,631 pop · income 22nd 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 Eastland
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Eastland on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Escatawpa · lowest
35,313
Escatawpa · lowest
35,313 median HH income
22.2% of the leader · rank #1
Grove · near
51,332
Grove · near
51,332 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #2
Mercersville · near
51,333
Mercersville · near
51,333 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #3
Eastland · this city
51,334
Eastland · this city
51,334 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #4
Crittenden · near
51,336
Crittenden · near
51,336 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #5
Springfield · near
51,339
Springfield · near
51,339 median HH income
32.3% of the leader · rank #6
Shavano Park · highest
158,969
Shavano Park · highest
158,969 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 Eastland 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: 3,631.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Eastland - the verdict
Eastland ranks in the 22nd percentile for household income and the 40th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
22nd
percentile, household income
35th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
40th
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: Eastland, TX
Eastland is a small town in Texas, home to 3,631 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Eastland households earn a median of $51,334 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.0%. Eastland's housing stock carries a median value of $175,800, and the median resident age is 45.9 years. 27.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 59.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 12 residential building permits were authorized in Eastland (Low Activity), per Census BPS data. Eastland reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1695.8 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 63.7°F with 29.2 inches of precipitation per year and 1.6 inches of snowfall.
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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Eastland'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 reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to housing and income to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Eastland, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Eastland?
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. 27.9% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Eastland?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1695.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 26% lower 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.
Is Eastland growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +106 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 12 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Eastland?
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 West Columbia (3,631 residents, $41,985 income); Groesbeck (3,634 residents, $54,615 income); Howe (3,638 residents, $57,417 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Beaver, UT (3,632 residents); Gravette, AR (3,629 residents); Combined Locks, WI (3,633 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Eastland?
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 63.7°F, with 29.2 inches of precipitation and 1.6 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.0
Annual precipitation
29.2 in
Mean temperature
63.7°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Eastland?
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 3.4 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.4×
Home value
$175,800
Household income
$51,334
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Eastland?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.0%. 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
80.0%
Work from home
3.0%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,711 workers age 16+.
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 B-
5.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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.
Violent crime F
356 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$51,334
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Eastland profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.9%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 25/100 (F) · 356 /100k
Household income: 22/100 (F) · $51,334
Where Eastland sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Eastland'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 - Eastland highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Eastland, TX (this city): home $175,800, crime 1,696/100k
Gravette, AR : home $189,100, crime 1,652/100k
Johnson, AR : home $255,500, crime 1,923/100k
West Columbia, TX : home $138,200, crime 1,745/100k
Groesbeck, TX : home $144,100, crime 1,499/100k
Howe, TX : home $190,000, crime 244/100k
Laguna Vista, TX : home $267,500, crime 683/100k
Shavano Park, TX : home $838,800, crime 1,215/100k
Ballinger, TX : home $109,000, crime 785/100k
How does Eastland compare to other US cities?
Here's how Eastland stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income22% higher than other cities
Home value35% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety40% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Texas, Eastland ranks #389 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Eastland 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 Eastland near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Eastland ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Eastland only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,101 of 1,520
28th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#666 of 1,505
56th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,116 of 1,663
32nd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#431 of 1,663
74th 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
22nd percentile nationally for median household income · 40th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Eastland's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Eastland'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 Eastland's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$175,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 65% 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
Eastland's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.4×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,673 of 15,516
More affordable than 44% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#7,031 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.4×, Eastland sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,673 of 15,516 and #7,031 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
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
$51,334Eastland, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Eastland, 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 Eastland, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
3,631
Median Income
$51,334
Median Home Value
$175,800
Median Age
45.9
Poverty Rate
5.0%
Labor force participation
59.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1695.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
355.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1340.3
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
63.7°F
Annual Precipitation
29.2"
Annual Snowfall
1.6"
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
Eastland's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
3,631 residents
2021
3,653 residents
2022
3,656 residents
2023
3,747 residents
2024
3,759 residents
2025
3,737 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Low Activity
Total Permits (2024)
12
housing units authorized
Single-Family
12
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.3
permits per 1,000 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.0%
Carpool
13.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
3.0%
Other
2.5%
Based on 1,711 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 Eastland. 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 Eastland 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 Eastland sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Eastland 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.