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SheetTX-FRISCO-TX · Frisco, TX 210,238 pop · income 94th 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 Frisco
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Frisco on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Rochester · lowest
46,628
Rochester · lowest
46,628 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #1
Lake Mary Jane · near
146,094
Lake Mary Jane · near
146,094 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #2
Eagle Point · near
146,125
Eagle Point · near
146,125 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #3
Frisco · this city
146,158
Frisco · this city
146,158 median HH income
99.9% of the leader · rank #4
Mayo · near
146,206
Mayo · near
146,206 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
North Great R… · highest
146,250
North Great R… · highest
146,250 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Gem Lake · near
146,250
Gem Lake · near
146,250 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 Frisco 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: 210,238.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Frisco - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Frisco lands in the 94th percentile for household income and the 60th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
94th
percentile, household income
89th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
60th
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: Frisco, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 210,238 residents in Frisco, a mid-sized U.S. city within Texas. Households in Frisco report a median income of $146,158 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.6%. Home values in Frisco run a median of $595,400, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. 66.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 68.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 1,333 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 56% from five years earlier. Frisco reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1103.6 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects 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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Frisco workers runs 19.0 minutes, with 57.3% driving alone and 33.7% working from home. 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 Frisco'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 schools and households to housing and income to population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Frisco, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count.
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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Frisco?
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 67 public schools within the city match. 66.0% 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 Frisco?
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 4.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +34,206 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +16.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,333 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Frisco?
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 McKinney (202,314 residents, $120,273 income); Amarillo (200,945 residents, $62,469 income); Grand Prairie (198,564 residents, $78,889 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Moreno Valley, CA (210,378 residents); Rochester, NY (209,720 residents); Fayetteville, NC (209,692 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.
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 Frisco?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 57.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.0 minutes.
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
57.3%
Work from home
33.7%
Public transit
0.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 109,014 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Frisco?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1103.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 52% 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
1103.6
Violent rate
100.9
Property rate
1002.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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+
$146,158
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
66.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
101 /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.
Frisco profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 95/100 (A+) · $146,158
Bachelor's+ share: 95/100 (A+) · 66.0%
Poverty rate: 81/100 (A-) · 2.6%
Violent crime: 71/100 (B) · 101 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Frisco sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Frisco'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 - Frisco highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Frisco, TX (this city): home $595,400, crime 1,104/100k
Moreno Valley, CA : home $461,400, crime 1,938/100k
Rochester, NY : home $120,600, crime 3,872/100k
Fayetteville, NC : home $171,900, crime 3,755/100k
Yonkers, NY : home $478,000, crime 1,327/100k
Fontana, CA : home $558,500, crime 1,487/100k
Des Moines, IA : home $183,700, crime 3,830/100k
McKinney, TX : home $439,500, crime 933/100k
Amarillo, TX : home $186,800, crime 3,346/100k
Grand Prairie, TX : home $272,200, crime 1,822/100k
Brownsville, TX : home $122,400, crime 2,398/100k
Garland, TX : home $248,900, crime 2,221/100k
Irving, TX : home $287,300, crime 2,474/100k
How does Frisco compare to other US cities?
Frisco measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income94% higher than other cities
Home value89% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety60% 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, Frisco ranks #257 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 Frisco 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 Frisco near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Frisco ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Frisco only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#81 of 1,520
95th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#56 of 1,505
96th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,306 of 1,663
21st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#47 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
94th percentile nationally for median household income · 60th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Frisco's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Frisco'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 Frisco's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$595,40011th percentilemore affordable than 11% 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
Frisco's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,904 of 15,516
More affordable than 30% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#47 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 4.1×, Frisco sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,904 of 15,516 and #47 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
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
$146,158Frisco, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Frisco, 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 Frisco, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)66.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.6%
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
210,238
Median Income
$146,158
Median Home Value
$595,400
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
2.6%
Labor force participation
68.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
66.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1103.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
100.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1002.7
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
67
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Frisco's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
202,749 residents
2021
211,127 residents
2022
220,399 residents
2023
226,878 residents
2024
235,159 residents
2025
236,955 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
1,333
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,285
detached homes
Multifamily
48
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
6.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
3,041
2,081
960
$625.5M
2020
3,179
2,444
735
$655.2M
2021
3,390
1,879
1,511
$627.3M
2022
2,896
1,327
1,569
$543.5M
2023
3,400
1,036
2,364
$617.4M
2024
1,333
1,285
48
$375.7M
Permit volume decreased 56% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.0 minutes
Drive Alone
57.3%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
33.7%
Other
2.0%
Based on 109,014 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 Frisco. 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 Frisco 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 Frisco sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Frisco 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.