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SheetTX-EDINBURG-TX · Edinburg, TX 102,561 pop · income 32nd 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 Edinburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Edinburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
South Bend · lowest
52,512
South Bend · lowest
52,512 median HH income
40.7% of the leader · rank #1
Hollister · near
57,778
Hollister · near
57,778 median HH income
44.7% of the leader · rank #2
Edinburg · this city
57,789
Edinburg · this city
57,789 median HH income
44.8% of the leader · rank #3
Hillsboro · near
57,792
Hillsboro · near
57,792 median HH income
44.8% of the leader · rank #4
Kane · near
57,794
Kane · near
57,794 median HH income
44.8% of the leader · rank #5
Topaz Ranch E… · near
57,794
Topaz Ranch E… · near
57,794 median HH income
44.8% of the leader · rank #6
Allen · highest
129,130
Allen · highest
129,130 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 Edinburg 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: 102,561.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Edinburg - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Edinburg lands in the 32nd percentile for household income and the 32nd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
32nd
percentile, household income
35th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
32nd
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: Edinburg, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 102,561 residents in Edinburg, a mid-sized U.S. city within Texas. Median household income here is $57,789 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 22.4%. Home values in Edinburg run a median of $174,800, and the median resident age is 29.9 years. 28.9% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 57.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1,295 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 33% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2026.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 74.9°F with 23.6 inches of precipitation per year.
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). 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. The average commute for Edinburg workers runs 19.2 minutes, with 72.7% driving alone and 9.8% 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 Edinburg'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 climate and hazard context to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Edinburg, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, local building permits.
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. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Edinburg?
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 74.9°F, with 23.6 inches of precipitation. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Edinburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2026.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 11% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Edinburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.2 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Edinburg?
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 Wichita Falls (102,558 residents, $58,568 income); San Angelo (99,507 residents, $64,146 income); New Braunfels (98,700 residents, $88,257 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Daly City, CA (102,560 residents); Lee's Summit, MO (102,583 residents); South Bend, IN (102,866 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 Edinburg?
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 22.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.0×
Home value
$174,800
Household income
$57,789
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Edinburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +9,949 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,295 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
100,751
2025 estimate
110,700
Period change
+9.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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 52 public schools within the city match. 28.9% 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
22.4%
Bachelor's degree+
28.9%
Matched public schools
52
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 22.4% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Edinburg, TX
36/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.9%
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
270 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$57,789
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
22.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Edinburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.9%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 270 /100k
Household income: 31/100 (F) · $57,789
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.4%
Where Edinburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Edinburg'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 - Edinburg highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Edinburg, TX (this city): home $174,800, crime 2,027/100k
Daly City, CA : home $1,092,700, crime 2,105/100k
Lee's Summit, MO : home $313,200, crime 2,444/100k
South Bend, IN : home $124,500, crime 3,009/100k
Goodyear, AZ : home $441,900, crime 1,645/100k
Vacaville, CA : home $596,700, crime 2,033/100k
Chico, CA : home $455,300, crime 2,597/100k
Wichita Falls, TX : home $142,600, crime 2,969/100k
San Angelo, TX : home $179,300, crime 2,704/100k
New Braunfels, TX : home $315,100, crime 1,440/100k
Allen, TX : home $429,900, crime 985/100k
Tyler, TX : home $216,400, crime 2,305/100k
Conroe, TX : home $283,100, crime 1,877/100k
How does Edinburg compare to other US cities?
Here's how Edinburg stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income32% higher than other cities
Home value35% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety32% 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: Edinburg ranks #460 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 Edinburg 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 Edinburg near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Edinburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Edinburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#909 of 1,520
40th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#672 of 1,505
55th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#257 of 1,663
84th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#402 of 1,663
76th 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
32nd percentile nationally for median household income · 32nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Edinburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Edinburg'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 Edinburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$174,800Among 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
Edinburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,828 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#121 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.0×, Edinburg sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,828 of 15,516 and #121 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$57,789Edinburg, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Edinburg, 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 Edinburg, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)57.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
102,561
Median Income
$57,789
Median Home Value
$174,800
Median Age
29.9
Poverty Rate
22.4%
Labor force participation
57.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2026.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
269.6
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1757.3
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
74.9°F
Annual Precipitation
23.6"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
52
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Edinburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
100,751 residents
2021
102,930 residents
2022
104,186 residents
2023
105,871 residents
2024
108,892 residents
2025
110,700 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
1,295
housing units authorized
Single-Family
777
detached homes
Multifamily
518
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
975
379
596
$141.1M
2020
1,207
539
668
$175.3M
2021
930
473
457
$141.2M
2022
902
542
360
$160.5M
2023
1,417
590
827
$241.4M
2024
1,295
777
518
$265.9M
Permit volume increased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.2 minutes
Drive Alone
72.7%
Carpool
11.4%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
2.0%
Work from Home
9.8%
Other
3.9%
Based on 42,951 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 Edinburg. 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 Edinburg 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 Edinburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Edinburg 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.