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SheetTX-GOLDTHWAITE-TX · Goldthwaite, TX 1,733 pop · income 41st pct · 2 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 Goldthwaite
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Goldthwaite on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Westmorland · lowest
28,929
Westmorland · lowest
28,929 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #1
Goldthwaite · this city
63,942
Goldthwaite · this city
63,942 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #2
Mechanicsville · near
63,942
Mechanicsville · near
63,942 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #3
Atwater · near
63,945
Atwater · near
63,945 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #4
Mauricetown · near
63,946
Mauricetown · near
63,946 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #5
Minkler · near
63,947
Minkler · near
63,947 median HH income
76.6% of the leader · rank #6
Quail Creek · highest
83,523
Quail Creek · highest
83,523 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Goldthwaite on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 1,733.
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Goldthwaite places in the 41st percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
41st
percentile, household income
16th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Goldthwaite, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 1,733 residents in Goldthwaite, a small town within Texas. Goldthwaite households earn a median of $63,942 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 3.0%. Typical homes in Goldthwaite are valued around $115,900, and the median resident age is 47.8 years. Educational attainment runs 17.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 59.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 64.7°F with 30.4 inches of precipitation per year.
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: the state registers 97.1 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Near Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. 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. Commute times here average 19.2 minutes, with 78.3% driving alone and 5.7% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Goldthwaite'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 population change to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to schools and households to comparison shortlist to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Goldthwaite, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history.
No matched row is reported here for FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Goldthwaite?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.0%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Is Goldthwaite growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +47 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +2.7% change. No comparable local building-permit series is available here, so population change should not be read as a housing-supply measure. 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 Goldthwaite?
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.
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Bangs (1,731 residents, $50,486 income); Albany (1,725 residents, $56,339 income); Flatonia (1,741 residents, $66,344 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Centennial Park, AZ (1,733 residents); Albion, NE (1,733 residents); West Hurley, NY (1,733 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 can 2 Census tracts reveal inside Goldthwaite?
PlainCities matches 2 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Goldthwaite?
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 64.7°F, with 30.4 inches of precipitation. 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
30.4 in
Mean temperature
64.7°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What does the journey to work look like in Goldthwaite?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 78.3%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.2 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. 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.
Drive alone
78.3%
Work from home
5.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 859 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Goldthwaite?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 17.9% 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
3.0%
Bachelor's degree+
17.9%
Matched public schools
4
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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.
Poverty rate B+
3.0%
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.
Household income D
$63,942
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
17.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Goldthwaite profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 79/100 (B+) · 3.0%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 40/100 (D) · $63,942
Bachelor's+ share: 28/100 (F) · 17.9%
How does Goldthwaite compare to other US cities?
Goldthwaite measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income41% higher than other cities
Home value16% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Goldthwaite 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 Goldthwaite near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Goldthwaite ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Goldthwaite only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#745 of 1,520
51st percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#1,005 of 1,505
33rd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,277 of 1,663
23rd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#774 of 1,663
53rd 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
41st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Goldthwaite's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$115,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 84% 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
Goldthwaite's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#1,036 of 15,516
More affordable than 93% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,003 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 1.8×, Goldthwaite sits in the affordable band:
national rank #1,036 of 15,516 and #1,003 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
$63,942Goldthwaite, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Goldthwaite, 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 Goldthwaite, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)17.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,733
Median Income
$63,942
Median Home Value
$115,900
Median Age
47.8
Poverty Rate
3.0%
Labor force participation
59.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
17.9%
Climate
Avg Temperature
64.7°F
Annual Precipitation
30.4"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Goldthwaite's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
1,727 residents
2021
1,738 residents
2022
1,742 residents
2023
1,761 residents
2024
1,777 residents
2025
1,774 residents
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.2 minutes
Drive Alone
78.3%
Carpool
12.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.7%
Work from Home
5.7%
Other
2.1%
Based on 859 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 Goldthwaite. 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 Goldthwaite 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 Goldthwaite sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Goldthwaite 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, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, 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.