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SheetTX-FREDERICKSBURG-TX · Fredericksburg, TX 11,254 pop · income 31st pct · 7 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 Fredericksburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Fredericksburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
La Homa · lowest
41,198
La Homa · lowest
41,198 median HH income
32.7% of the leader · rank #1
Gray · near
57,472
Gray · near
57,472 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #2
Fredericksburg · this city
57,474
Fredericksburg · this city
57,474 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #3
Citrus Springs · near
57,477
Citrus Springs · near
57,477 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #4
Watervliet · near
57,477
Watervliet · near
57,477 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #5
Chicago Heigh… · near
57,479
Chicago Heigh… · near
57,479 median HH income
45.6% of the leader · rank #6
Iowa Colony · highest
126,167
Iowa Colony · highest
126,167 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 Fredericksburg 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: 11,254.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Fredericksburg - the verdict
Nationally, Fredericksburg sits in the 31st percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
31st
percentile, household income
81st
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: Fredericksburg, TX
Texas's Fredericksburg is a small town, with 11,254 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Fredericksburg brings in $57,474 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.6%. Fredericksburg's housing stock carries a median value of $442,800, and the median resident age is 53.6 years. About 39.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 51.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 52 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 24% from five years earlier. Fredericksburg reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 639.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Fredericksburg's yearly average temperature at 65.5°F with 30.6 inches of precipitation per year and 0.2 inches of snowfall.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. 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 Fredericksburg'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to population change to climate and hazard context to reported crime to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Fredericksburg, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Fredericksburg?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 7.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Fredericksburg?
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 Selma (11,302 residents, $97,153 income); Snyder (11,310 residents, $54,067 income); La Homa (11,389 residents, $41,198 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Satellite Beach, FL (11,250 residents); Ocean City, NJ (11,260 residents); Newport East, RI (11,262 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Fredericksburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.3%. 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. 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.
What can 7 Census tracts reveal inside Fredericksburg?
PlainCities matches 7 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Fredericksburg?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 39.6% 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
7.6%
Bachelor's degree+
39.6%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Fredericksburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +867 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 52 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
11,026
2025 estimate
11,893
Period change
+7.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What physical conditions frame life in Fredericksburg?
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 65.5°F, with 30.6 inches of precipitation and 0.2 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.0
Annual precipitation
30.6 in
Mean temperature
65.5°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Fredericksburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 639.9 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.
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
639.9
Violent rate
85.3
Property rate
554.6
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Below median income · poverty 7.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C-
City profile score · Fredericksburg, TX
54/100
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 B
39.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B
85 /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.
Poverty rate D
7.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$57,474
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Fredericksburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 74/100 (B) · 39.6%
Violent crime: 74/100 (B) · 85 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 49/100 (D) · 7.6%
Household income: 31/100 (F) · $57,474
Where Fredericksburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Fredericksburg'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 - Fredericksburg highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Fredericksburg, TX (this city): home $442,800, crime 640/100k
Ocean City, NJ : home $719,100, crime 2,178/100k
Waupun, WI : home $167,700, crime 662/100k
Healdsburg, CA : home $946,900, crime 1,744/100k
Selma, TX : home $288,700, crime 2,455/100k
Snyder, TX : home $102,500, crime 2,332/100k
Port Lavaca, TX : home $121,000, crime 1,557/100k
Leon Valley, TX : home $236,600, crime 5,573/100k
Iowa Colony, TX : home $356,300, crime 690/100k
How does Fredericksburg compare to other US cities?
Here's how Fredericksburg stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income31% higher than other cities
Home value81% 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.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Texas, Fredericksburg ranks #135 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Fredericksburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Fredericksburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#921 of 1,520
39th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#112 of 1,505
93rd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#917 of 1,663
45th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#232 of 1,663
86th 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
31st percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Fredericksburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Fredericksburg'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 Fredericksburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$442,80019th percentilemore affordable than 19% 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
Fredericksburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,936 of 15,516
More affordable than 4% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,180 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.7×, Fredericksburg sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,936 of 15,516 and #3,180 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
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
$57,474Fredericksburg, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Fredericksburg, 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 Fredericksburg, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,254
Median Income
$57,474
Median Home Value
$442,800
Median Age
53.6
Poverty Rate
7.6%
Labor force participation
51.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
639.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
85.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
554.6
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
65.5°F
Annual Precipitation
30.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.2"
Schools
Total Schools
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Fredericksburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
11,026 residents
2021
11,268 residents
2022
11,388 residents
2023
11,530 residents
2024
11,711 residents
2025
11,893 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
52
housing units authorized
Single-Family
52
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
4.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
68
64
4
$13.5M
2020
72
70
2
$14.5M
2021
85
85
0
$17.4M
2022
11
11
0
$3.2M
2023
67
65
2
$13.8M
2024
52
52
0
$11.1M
Permit volume decreased 24% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.3%
Carpool
13.9%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
4.6%
Work from Home
9.4%
Based on 4,976 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 Fredericksburg. 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 Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Fredericksburg 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.