Side-by-side metrics and state or size-class ranks use the same Census and FBI fields shown on this profile. Results stay in the URL so you can bookmark or share them.
Place dossier plate
SheetTX-FAIR-OAKS-RANCH-TX · Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 10,630 pop · income 96th 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 Fair Oaks Ranch
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fair Oaks Ranch on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mount Airy · lowest
39,873
Mount Airy · lowest
39,873 median HH income
22.4% of the leader · rank #1
Bridgehampton · near
168,167
Bridgehampton · near
168,167 median HH income
94.4% of the leader · rank #2
Fair Oaks Ran… · this city
168,309
Fair Oaks Ran… · this city
168,309 median HH income
94.5% of the leader · rank #3
Windham · near
168,309
Windham · near
168,309 median HH income
94.5% of the leader · rank #4
Springdale · near
168,400
Springdale · near
168,400 median HH income
94.5% of the leader · rank #5
Madison · near
168,469
Madison · near
168,469 median HH income
94.6% of the leader · rank #6
Scenic Oaks · highest
178,125
Scenic Oaks · highest
178,125 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 Fair Oaks Ranch 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: 10,630.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fair Oaks Ranch - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Fair Oaks Ranch lands in the 96th percentile for household income and the 80th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
90th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
80th
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: Fair Oaks Ranch, TX
Fair Oaks Ranch is a small town in Texas, home to 10,630 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $168,309 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.5%. Fair Oaks Ranch's housing stock carries a median value of $612,700, and the median resident age is 45.5 years. 68.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 54.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 93 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 17% from five years earlier. Fair Oaks Ranch reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 619.0 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. 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 Fair Oaks Ranch'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 comparison shortlist to population change to schools and households to housing and income to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fair Oaks Ranch, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, local building permits, annual population history.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Fair Oaks Ranch?
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 Freeport (10,639 residents, $53,606 income); Clute (10,650 residents, $66,224 income); Bonham (10,594 residents, $53,232 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Cottage Grove, OR (10,630 residents); Mount Airy, NC (10,631 residents); Fairview, OR (10,627 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.
Is Fair Oaks Ranch growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,086 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +21.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 93 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.
What does the education layer cover for Fair Oaks Ranch?
The matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 68.0% 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 Fair Oaks Ranch?
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 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fair Oaks Ranch?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 619.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 73% 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.
Total reported rate
619.0
Violent rate
0.0
Property rate
619.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Fair Oaks Ranch?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 59.7%. 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. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Drive alone
59.7%
Work from home
32.2%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,339 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.
Household income A+
$168,309
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A+
0 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share A+
68.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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.
Fair Oaks Ranch profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $168,309
Violent crime: 97/100 (A+) · 0 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 96/100 (A+) · 68.0%
Poverty rate: 82/100 (A-) · 2.5%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Fair Oaks Ranch sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fair Oaks Ranch'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 - Fair Oaks Ranch highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Fair Oaks Ranch, TX (this city): home $612,700, crime 619/100k
Cottage Grove, OR : home $318,800, crime 2,230/100k
Mount Airy, NC : home $176,600, crime 2,748/100k
Munhall, PA : home $118,900, crime 1,492/100k
Freeport, TX : home $118,900, crime 1,904/100k
Clute, TX : home $251,100, crime 2,124/100k
Bonham, TX : home $183,600, crime 789/100k
Fairview, TX : home $544,800, crime 999/100k
Bellmead, TX : home $117,600, crime 3,641/100k
How does Fair Oaks Ranch compare to other US cities?
Where Fair Oaks Ranch sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value90% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety80% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Texas alone, Fair Oaks Ranch ranks #129 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fair Oaks Ranch 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 Fair Oaks Ranch near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fair Oaks Ranch ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fair Oaks Ranch only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#48 of 1,520
97th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#53 of 1,505
96th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,314 of 1,663
21st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#44 of 1,663
97th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 80th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fair Oaks Ranch's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fair Oaks Ranch'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 Fair Oaks Ranch's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$612,70010th percentilemore affordable than 10% 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,511 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,629 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Fair Oaks Ranch sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,511 of 15,516 and #1,629 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$168,309Fair Oaks Ranch, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fair Oaks Ranch, 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 Fair Oaks Ranch, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)68.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,630
Median Income
$168,309
Median Home Value
$612,700
Median Age
45.5
Poverty Rate
2.5%
Labor force participation
54.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
68.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
619.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
619.0
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fair Oaks Ranch's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,939 residents
2021
10,516 residents
2022
11,137 residents
2023
11,473 residents
2024
11,772 residents
2025
12,025 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
93
housing units authorized
Single-Family
93
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
112
112
0
$38.5M
2020
192
192
0
$44.9M
2021
216
216
0
$51.3M
2022
120
120
0
$30.1M
2023
84
84
0
$23.7M
2024
93
93
0
$26.7M
Permit volume decreased 17% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
59.7%
Carpool
6.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
32.2%
Other
1.5%
Based on 4,339 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 Fair Oaks Ranch. 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 Fair Oaks Ranch 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 Fair Oaks Ranch sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fair Oaks Ranch 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.