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SheetTX-GILMER-TX · Gilmer, TX 4,955 pop · income 9th pct · 10 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 Gilmer
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Gilmer on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sparks · lowest
31,932
Sparks · lowest
31,932 median HH income
18.5% of the leader · rank #1
Gu-Win · near
41,250
Gu-Win · near
41,250 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #2
Mount Vernon · near
41,250
Mount Vernon · near
41,250 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #3
Lewiston · near
41,266
Lewiston · near
41,266 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #4
Gilmer · this city
41,279
Gilmer · this city
41,279 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #5
Valier · near
41,288
Valier · near
41,288 median HH income
23.9% of the leader · rank #6
Argyle · highest
172,604
Argyle · highest
172,604 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 Gilmer 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: 4,955.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Gilmer - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Gilmer lands in the 9th percentile for household income and the 18th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
9th
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
18th
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: Gilmer, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 4,955 residents in Gilmer, a small town within Texas. Median household income here is $41,279 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 23.0%. Typical homes in Gilmer are valued around $160,700, and the median resident age is 38.5 years. Educational attainment runs 20.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 42.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 31 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 1450% from five years earlier. Gilmer's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2816.4 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). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 63.1°F with 47.9 inches of precipitation per year and 1.5 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). 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). Workers in Gilmer report an average commute of 30.1 minutes, with 90.2% driving alone and 3.5% 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 Gilmer'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 within-city variation to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to schools and households to population change to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Gilmer, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, matched public-school count, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Gilmer?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 23.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
PlainCities matches 10 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Gilmer?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2816.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 23% higher 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Gilmer?
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 Mineola (4,956 residents, $42,231 income); Argyle (4,970 residents, $172,604 income); Sparks (4,936 residents, $31,932 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Edgewater, CO (4,955 residents); Oakhurst, CA (4,956 residents); Robbins, IL (4,956 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 Gilmer?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 90.2%. The reported mean trip to work is 30.1 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. 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.
Drive alone
90.2%
Work from home
3.5%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 1,630 workers age 16+.
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 6 public schools within the city match. 20.7% 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
23.0%
Bachelor's degree+
20.7%
Matched public schools
6
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +432 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 31 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
4,855
2025 estimate
5,287
Period change
+8.9%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
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 63.1°F, with 47.9 inches of precipitation and 1.5 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
47.9 in
Mean temperature
63.1°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 23.0% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Gilmer, TX
29/100
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.
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.
Violent crime D
232 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
20.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$41,279
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
23.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Gilmer profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 43/100 (D) · 232 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 36/100 (F) · 20.7%
Household income: 9/100 (F) · $41,279
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 23.0%
Where Gilmer sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Gilmer'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 - Gilmer highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Gilmer, TX (this city): home $160,700, crime 2,816/100k
Edgewater, CO : home $603,400, crime 10,306/100k
Creedmoor, NC : home $260,000, crime 1,915/100k
Houlton, ME : home $121,700, crime 1,563/100k
Becker, MN : home $257,600, crime 390/100k
Mineola, TX : home $205,600, crime 1,960/100k
Argyle, TX : home $624,200, crime 529/100k
Hudson, TX : home $169,000, crime 377/100k
How does Gilmer compare to other US cities?
Here's how Gilmer stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income9% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety18% 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, Gilmer ranks #546 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 Gilmer 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 Gilmer near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Gilmer ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Gilmer only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,344 of 1,520
12th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#742 of 1,505
51st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#237 of 1,663
86th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#660 of 1,663
60th 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
9th percentile nationally for median household income · 18th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Gilmer's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Gilmer'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 Gilmer's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$160,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Gilmer's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,377 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,153 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Gilmer sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,377 of 15,516 and #8,153 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$41,279Gilmer, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Gilmer, 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 Gilmer, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)20.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)23.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)42.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,955
Median Income
$41,279
Median Home Value
$160,700
Median Age
38.5
Poverty Rate
23.0%
Labor force participation
42.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
20.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2816.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
231.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2584.9
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
63.1°F
Annual Precipitation
47.9"
Annual Snowfall
1.5"
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
Gilmer's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,855 residents
2021
4,940 residents
2022
5,032 residents
2023
5,120 residents
2024
5,209 residents
2025
5,287 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
31
housing units authorized
Single-Family
29
detached homes
Multifamily
2
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
2
2
0
$0.4M
2020
18
10
8
$2.8M
2021
26
14
12
$4.2M
2022
0
0
0
-
2023
23
0
23
$2.3M
2024
31
29
2
$9.0M
Permit volume increased 1450% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
30.1 minutes
Drive Alone
90.2%
Carpool
6.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
3.5%
Based on 1,630 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 Gilmer. 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 Gilmer 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 Gilmer sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Gilmer 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.