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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-FLOWER-MOUND-TX · Flower Mound, TX 77,886 pop · income 95th pct
Nearest income peer: Wildwood, MO (+ $13 income $)
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 Flower Mound
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Flower Mound on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pharr · lowest
49,884
Pharr · lowest
49,884 median HH income
26.8% of the leader · rank #1
Albertson · near
157,690
Albertson · near
157,690 median HH income
84.7% of the leader · rank #2
Flower Mound · this city
157,737
Flower Mound · this city
157,737 median HH income
84.7% of the leader · rank #3
Wildwood · near
157,750
Wildwood · near
157,750 median HH income
84.7% of the leader · rank #4
Fort Valley · near
157,778
Fort Valley · near
157,778 median HH income
84.7% of the leader · rank #5
Metuchen · near
157,779
Metuchen · near
157,779 median HH income
84.7% of the leader · rank #6
Pleasanton · highest
186,206
Pleasanton · highest
186,206 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 Flower Mound 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: 77,886.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Flower Mound - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Flower Mound places in the 95th percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
95th
percentile, household income
85th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: Flower Mound, TX
Texas's Flower Mound is a small city, with 77,886 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Flower Mound households earn a median of $157,737 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.7%. Typical homes in Flower Mound are valued around $514,100, and the median resident age is 43.0 years. Educational attainment runs 64.3% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 68.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 71 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 87% from five years earlier. Flower Mound reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 640.1 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: 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. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Flower Mound'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Flower Mound, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, 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.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Flower Mound?
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 65.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What does the education layer cover for Flower Mound?
The NCES join finds 22 public schools within the city match. 64.3% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Flower Mound?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Cedar Park (77,474 residents, $123,972 income); Georgetown (78,803 residents, $91,857 income); Pharr (79,809 residents, $49,884 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Chino Hills, CA (78,024 residents); Carmichael, CA (78,070 residents); Milpitas, CA (78,216 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.
Is Flower Mound 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 +3,076 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 71 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
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 Flower Mound?
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 640.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
582.9
Violent rate
57.2
Total reported rate
640.1
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Flower Mound?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.7%, 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.
Household income
$157,737
Home value
$514,100
Value / income
3.3×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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+
$157,737
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
64.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime A-
57 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate A-
2.7%
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.
Flower Mound profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 98/100 (A+) · $157,737
Bachelor's+ share: 94/100 (A+) · 64.3%
Violent crime: 82/100 (A-) · 57 /100k
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.7%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Flower Mound sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Flower Mound'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 - Flower Mound highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Flower Mound, TX (this city): home $514,100, crime 640/100k
Chino Hills, CA : home $830,000, crime 1,113/100k
Milpitas, CA : home $1,180,000, crime 3,497/100k
Pleasanton, CA : home $1,432,300, crime 1,792/100k
Bellflower, CA : home $661,100, crime 2,783/100k
Loveland, CO : home $453,100, crime 2,333/100k
Cedar Park, TX : home $474,800, crime 1,294/100k
Georgetown, TX : home $398,600, crime 1,361/100k
Pharr, TX : home $111,500, crime 1,359/100k
Mansfield, TX : home $380,000, crime 1,475/100k
Missouri City, TX : home $281,600, crime 1,191/100k
Longview, TX : home $182,700, crime 2,690/100k
How does Flower Mound compare to other US cities?
Where Flower Mound sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income95% higher than other cities
Home value85% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety79% 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: Flower Mound ranks #136 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 Flower Mound 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 Flower Mound near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Flower Mound ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Flower Mound only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#63 of 1,520
96th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#74 of 1,505
95th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,300 of 1,663
22nd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#55 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
95th percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Flower Mound's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Flower Mound'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 Flower Mound's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$514,10015th percentilemore affordable than 15% 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
Flower Mound's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,944 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#156 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Flower Mound sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,944 of 15,516 and #156 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
$157,737Flower Mound, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Flower Mound, 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 Flower Mound, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)64.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
77,886
Median Income
$157,737
Median Home Value
$514,100
Median Age
43.0
Poverty Rate
2.7%
Labor force participation
68.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
64.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
640.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
57.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
582.9
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
22
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Flower Mound's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
76,464 residents
2021
77,527 residents
2022
78,736 residents
2023
79,862 residents
2024
79,964 residents
2025
79,540 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
71
housing units authorized
Single-Family
71
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
557
433
124
$162.8M
2020
429
429
0
$100.4M
2021
445
441
4
$105.2M
2022
519
304
215
$103.3M
2023
119
119
0
$33.1M
2024
71
71
0
$61.7M
Permit volume decreased 87% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
65.5%
Carpool
5.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
27.2%
Other
1.5%
Based on 41,685 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 Flower Mound. 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 Flower Mound 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 Flower Mound sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Flower Mound 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.