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SheetTX-FARMERS-BRANCH-TX · Farmers Branch, TX 36,254 pop · income 69th 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 Farmers Branch
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Farmers Branch on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Texarkana · lowest
49,240
Texarkana · lowest
49,240 median HH income
28.9% of the leader · rank #1
Farmers Branch · this city
87,702
Farmers Branch · this city
87,702 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #2
Slater · near
87,708
Slater · near
87,708 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #3
Nesika Beach · near
87,712
Nesika Beach · near
87,712 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #4
Cranston · near
87,716
Cranston · near
87,716 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #5
Walla Walla E… · near
87,723
Walla Walla E… · near
87,723 median HH income
51.5% of the leader · rank #6
Commack · highest
170,375
Commack · highest
170,375 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 Farmers Branch 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: 36,254.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Farmers Branch - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Farmers Branch places in the 69th percentile for household income and the 19th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
68th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
19th
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: Farmers Branch, TX
Farmers Branch is a small city in Texas, home to 36,254 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Farmers Branch report a median income of $87,702 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.0%. Typical homes in Farmers Branch are valued around $322,000, and the median resident age is 33.5 years. Educational attainment runs 48.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 73.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 609 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 62% from five years earlier. Farmers Branch's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2748.8 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, above the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). 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. 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 Farmers Branch'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 housing and income to schools and households to reported crime 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 Farmers Branch, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits, 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.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Farmers Branch?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
What does the education layer cover for Farmers Branch?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 48.2% 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.
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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Farmers Branch?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2748.8 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 21% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Farmers Branch?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Socorro (36,237 residents, $52,100 income); La Porte (36,077 residents, $81,801 income); Texarkana (36,039 residents, $49,240 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Douglasville, GA (36,284 residents); Woodstock, GA (36,297 residents); Upper Arlington, OH (36,319 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.
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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Farmers Branch?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.6%
Work from home
17.6%
Drive alone
71.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 21,440 workers age 16+.
Is Farmers Branch growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,097 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +5.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 609 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+5.8%
2025 estimate
38,320
2020 estimate
36,223
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 8.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C
City profile score · Farmers Branch, TX
59/100
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 A-
48.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B-
$87,702
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Poverty rate D
8.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime D
202 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Farmers Branch profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 48.2%
Household income: 67/100 (B-) · $87,702
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 8.0%
Violent crime: 47/100 (D) · 202 /100k
Where Farmers Branch sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Farmers Branch'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 - Farmers Branch highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Farmers Branch, TX (this city): home $322,000, crime 2,749/100k
Douglasville, GA : home $313,500, crime 5,168/100k
Woodstock, GA : home $387,300, crime 1,081/100k
Upper Arlington, OH : home $568,200, crime 827/100k
Socorro, TX : home $131,200, crime 954/100k
La Porte, TX : home $217,100, crime 1,131/100k
Texarkana, TX : home $159,700, crime 2,892/100k
San Juan, TX : home $118,200, crime 1,573/100k
Copperas Cove, TX : home $167,900, crime 1,674/100k
Midlothian, TX : home $369,400, crime 1,078/100k
How does Farmers Branch compare to other US cities?
Farmers Branch measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value68% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety19% 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, Farmers Branch ranks #544 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 Farmers Branch 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 Farmers Branch near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Farmers Branch ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Farmers Branch only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#358 of 1,520
76th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#226 of 1,505
85th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#888 of 1,663
46th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#147 of 1,663
91st 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 19th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Farmers Branch's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Farmers Branch'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 Farmers Branch's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$322,00032nd percentilemore affordable than 32% 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
Farmers Branch's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,619 of 15,516
More affordable than 38% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,657 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.7×, Farmers Branch sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,619 of 15,516 and #1,657 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
$87,702Farmers Branch, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Farmers Branch, 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 Farmers Branch, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)48.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)73.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,254
Median Income
$87,702
Median Home Value
$322,000
Median Age
33.5
Poverty Rate
8.0%
Labor force participation
73.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
48.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2748.8
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
201.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2547.4
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
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Farmers Branch's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,223 residents
2021
36,049 residents
2022
36,400 residents
2023
37,392 residents
2024
37,525 residents
2025
38,320 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
609
housing units authorized
Single-Family
94
detached homes
Multifamily
515
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
16.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,582
247
1,335
$309.4M
2020
229
229
0
$53.6M
2021
309
309
0
$73.4M
2022
588
117
471
$122.3M
2023
75
75
0
$21.3M
2024
609
94
515
$108.9M
Permit volume decreased 62% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.7%
Carpool
7.0%
Public Transit
0.6%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
17.6%
Other
1.9%
Based on 21,440 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 Farmers Branch. 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 Farmers Branch 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 Farmers Branch sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Farmers Branch 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.