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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-GRAND-PRAIRIE-TX · Grand Prairie, TX 198,564 pop · income 60th 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 Grand Prairie
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Grand Prairie on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Birmingham · lowest
44,376
Birmingham · lowest
44,376 median HH income
30.4% of the leader · rank #1
Berlin · near
78,883
Berlin · near
78,883 median HH income
54.0% of the leader · rank #2
Grand Prairie · this city
78,889
Grand Prairie · this city
78,889 median HH income
54.0% of the leader · rank #3
West Wood · near
78,889
West Wood · near
78,889 median HH income
54.0% of the leader · rank #4
Key Largo · near
78,906
Key Largo · near
78,906 median HH income
54.0% of the leader · rank #5
Dresser · near
78,906
Dresser · near
78,906 median HH income
54.0% of the leader · rank #6
Frisco · highest
146,158
Frisco · highest
146,158 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 Grand Prairie 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: 198,564.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Grand Prairie - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Grand Prairie places in the 60th percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
60th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
37th
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: Grand Prairie, TX
Grand Prairie is a mid-sized U.S. city in Texas, home to 198,564 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Grand Prairie report a median income of $78,889 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.6%. Grand Prairie's housing stock carries a median value of $272,200, and the median resident age is 33.5 years. Educational attainment runs 29.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 65.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1,582 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 33% from five years earlier. Grand Prairie reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1822.2 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: 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). 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 Grand Prairie'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 reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to housing and income to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Grand Prairie, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, local building permits.
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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Grand Prairie?
The NCES join finds 59 public schools within the city match. 29.1% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Grand Prairie?
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 1822.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 20% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Grand Prairie?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Amarillo (200,945 residents, $62,469 income); McKinney (202,314 residents, $120,273 income); Brownsville (188,023 residents, $48,675 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Montgomery, AL (198,440 residents); Sunrise Manor, NV (199,099 residents); Birmingham, AL (199,322 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Grand Prairie?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Grand Prairie?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.6%, 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
$78,889
Home value
$272,200
Value / income
3.5×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Grand Prairie growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +13,249 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +6.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,582 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
+6.8%
2025 estimate
209,434
2020 estimate
196,185
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Above median income · poverty 9.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C-
City profile score · Grand Prairie, TX
51/100
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.
Household income C
$78,889
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
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
221 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Grand Prairie profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,889
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 29.1%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 45/100 (D) · 221 /100k
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.6%
Where Grand Prairie sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Grand Prairie'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 - Grand Prairie highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Grand Prairie, TX (this city): home $272,200, crime 1,822/100k
Montgomery, AL : home $148,500, crime 2,830/100k
Birmingham, AL : home $138,600, crime 5,278/100k
Grand Rapids, MI : home $225,500, crime 3,391/100k
Sioux Falls, SD : home $271,400, crime 3,442/100k
Amarillo, TX : home $186,800, crime 3,346/100k
McKinney, TX : home $439,500, crime 933/100k
Brownsville, TX : home $122,400, crime 2,398/100k
Frisco, TX : home $595,400, crime 1,104/100k
Killeen, TX : home $196,000, crime 1,910/100k
Garland, TX : home $248,900, crime 2,221/100k
How does Grand Prairie compare to other US cities?
Grand Prairie measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value60% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety37% 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, Grand Prairie ranks #420 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 Grand Prairie 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 Grand Prairie near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Grand Prairie ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Grand Prairie only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#447 of 1,520
71st percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#330 of 1,505
78th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#769 of 1,663
54th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#399 of 1,663
76th 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
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Grand Prairie's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Grand Prairie'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 Grand Prairie's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$272,20040th percentilemore affordable than 40% 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
Grand Prairie's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,783 of 15,516
More affordable than 43% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#205 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.5×, Grand Prairie sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,783 of 15,516 and #205 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$78,889Grand Prairie, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Grand Prairie, 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 Grand Prairie, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
198,564
Median Income
$78,889
Median Home Value
$272,200
Median Age
33.5
Poverty Rate
9.6%
Labor force participation
65.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1822.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
221.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1601.0
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.
Schools
Total Schools
59
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Grand Prairie's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
196,185 residents
2021
197,300 residents
2022
202,077 residents
2023
203,872 residents
2024
207,515 residents
2025
209,434 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
1,582
housing units authorized
Single-Family
364
detached homes
Multifamily
1,218
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,186
208
978
$162.2M
2020
1,458
418
1,040
$230.7M
2021
2,293
1,233
1,060
$427.0M
2022
993
335
658
$180.8M
2023
1,339
373
966
$295.5M
2024
1,582
364
1,218
$189.1M
Permit volume increased 33% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.6%
Carpool
11.0%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.7%
Work from Home
11.2%
Other
1.4%
Based on 96,396 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 Grand Prairie. 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 Grand Prairie 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 Grand Prairie sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Grand Prairie 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.