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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-FORT-STOCKTON-TX · Fort Stockton, TX 8,340 pop · income 49th pct · 5 tracts
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 Fort Stockton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fort Stockton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Prairie View · lowest
19,106
Prairie View · lowest
19,106 median HH income
14.9% of the leader · rank #1
Fort Stockton · this city
69,688
Fort Stockton · this city
69,688 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #2
Haralson · near
69,688
Haralson · near
69,688 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #3
Gridley · near
69,688
Gridley · near
69,688 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #4
Randall · near
69,688
Randall · near
69,688 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #5
Church Hill · near
69,688
Church Hill · near
69,688 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #6
Mont Belvieu · highest
127,902
Mont Belvieu · highest
127,902 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 Fort Stockton 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: 8,340.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fort Stockton - the verdict
Nationally, Fort Stockton sits in the 49th percentile for household income and the 89th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
49th
percentile, household income
36th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
89th
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: Fort Stockton, TX
Fort Stockton is a small town in Texas, home to 8,340 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Fort Stockton households earn a median of $69,688 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 20.5%. Fort Stockton's housing stock carries a median value of $176,600, and the median resident age is 33.3 years. 14.3% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 60.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 10 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 77% from five years earlier. Fort Stockton reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 412.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 66.5°F with 13.7 inches of precipitation per year and 1.4 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. 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 Fort Stockton'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 reported crime to climate and hazard context to population change to work and mobility to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fort Stockton, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fort Stockton?
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 412.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 82% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What physical conditions frame life in Fort Stockton?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.5°F, with 13.7 inches of precipitation and 1.4 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.
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.
What can 5 Census tracts reveal inside Fort Stockton?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fort Stockton?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Hillsboro (8,375 residents, $55,761 income); Mila Doce (8,298 residents, $46,544 income); Joshua (8,279 residents, $60,466 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Houghton, MI (8,341 residents); Waite Park, MN (8,341 residents); Kenilworth, NJ (8,339 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.
Population change
Is Fort Stockton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -439 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -5.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 10 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
-5.2%
2025 estimate
8,027
2020 estimate
8,466
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Fort Stockton?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 88.1%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
1.1%
Drive alone
88.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,806 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Fort Stockton?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.5%, 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
$69,688
Home value
$176,600
Value / income
2.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Fort Stockton?
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 14.3% 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.
Matched public schools
6
Bachelor's degree+
14.3%
Poverty estimate
20.5%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Below median income · poverty 20.5% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Fort Stockton, TX
39/100
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.
Violent crime C
163 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
Household income D
$69,688
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
14.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
20.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Fort Stockton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 55/100 (C) · 163 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 49/100 (D) · $69,688
Bachelor's+ share: 18/100 (F) · 14.3%
Poverty rate: 12/100 (F) · 20.5%
Where Fort Stockton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fort Stockton'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 - Fort Stockton highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Fort Stockton, TX (this city): home $176,600, crime 413/100k
Houghton, MI : home $233,700, crime 794/100k
Waite Park, MN : home $217,000, crime 4,232/100k
Kenilworth, NJ : home $521,100, crime 870/100k
Newton, NJ : home $282,300, crime 890/100k
Clinton, NC : home $185,600, crime 3,843/100k
Hillsboro, TX : home $118,400, crime 1,995/100k
Joshua, TX : home $271,000, crime 768/100k
Mont Belvieu, TX : home $365,200, crime 1,490/100k
Prairie View, TX : home $171,900, crime 921/100k
Richland Hills, TX : home $232,800, crime 2,696/100k
How does Fort Stockton compare to other US cities?
Where Fort Stockton sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income49% higher than other cities
Home value36% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety89% 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, Fort Stockton ranks #72 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 Fort Stockton 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 Fort Stockton near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fort Stockton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fort Stockton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#612 of 1,520
60th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#660 of 1,505
56th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#314 of 1,663
81st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,005 of 1,663
39th 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
49th percentile nationally for median household income · 89th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fort Stockton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fort Stockton'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 Fort Stockton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$176,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 64% 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
Fort Stockton's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,173 of 15,516
More affordable than 73% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,750 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.5×, Fort Stockton sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,173 of 15,516 and #3,750 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
The multiple is comparatively compact among tracked cities, but a low ratio can still coexist with slow demand or household-level hardship.
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
$69,688Fort Stockton, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fort Stockton, 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 Fort Stockton, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)14.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
8,340
Median Income
$69,688
Median Home Value
$176,600
Median Age
33.3
Poverty Rate
20.5%
Labor force participation
60.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
14.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
412.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
162.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
250.0
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.5°F
Annual Precipitation
13.7"
Annual Snowfall
1.4"
Schools
Total Schools
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fort Stockton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,466 residents
2021
8,434 residents
2022
8,173 residents
2023
8,151 residents
2024
8,117 residents
2025
8,027 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
10
housing units authorized
Single-Family
5
detached homes
Multifamily
5
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
44
6
38
$2.4M
2020
47
7
40
$2.5M
2021
13
13
0
$3.3M
2022
26
11
15
$3.0M
2023
9
4
5
$1.1M
2024
10
5
5
$1.3M
Permit volume decreased 77% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
88.1%
Carpool
8.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.4%
Work from Home
1.1%
Other
1.1%
Based on 3,806 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 Fort Stockton. 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 Fort Stockton 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 Fort Stockton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fort Stockton 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.