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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-HEATH-TX · Heath, TX 10,218 pop · income 99th 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 Heath
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Heath on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Robstown · lowest
39,124
Robstown · lowest
39,124 median HH income
15.8% of the leader · rank #1
Bronxville · near
215,726
Bronxville · near
215,726 median HH income
86.9% of the leader · rank #2
Inverness · near
215,810
Inverness · near
215,810 median HH income
87.0% of the leader · rank #3
Searingtown · near
215,817
Searingtown · near
215,817 median HH income
87.0% of the leader · rank #4
Heath · this city
216,160
Heath · this city
216,160 median HH income
87.1% of the leader · rank #5
North Barring… · near
216,250
North Barring… · near
216,250 median HH income
87.1% of the leader · rank #6
Blackwells Mi… · highest
248,149
Blackwells Mi… · highest
248,149 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 Heath 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: 10,218.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Heath - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Heath places in the 99th percentile for household income and the 83rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
99th
percentile, household income
92nd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
83rd
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: Heath, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 10,218 residents in Heath, a small town within Texas. Heath households earn a median of $216,160 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.4%. Typical homes in Heath are valued around $681,500, and the median resident age is 43.1 years. About 60.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 99 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 17% from five years earlier. Heath reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 543.1 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.0 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Heath'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 comparison shortlist to population change to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Heath, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates.
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 Heath?
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 3 public schools within the city match. 60.6% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Heath?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Heath?
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 Robstown (10,222 residents, $39,124 income); Raymondville (10,243 residents, $42,148 income); San Elizario (10,123 residents, $47,946 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Safford, AZ (10,217 residents); Columbia, PA (10,217 residents); Independent Hill, VA (10,217 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,927 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +19.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 99 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.
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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Heath?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 543.1 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 76% 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
543.1
Violent rate
101.8
Property rate
441.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.8%. 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. 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
66.8%
Work from home
25.9%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,251 workers age 16+.
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+
$216,160
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
60.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
102 /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.
Heath profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $216,160
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.6%
Poverty rate: 83/100 (A-) · 2.4%
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 102 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Heath sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Heath'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 - Heath highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Heath, TX (this city): home $681,500, crime 543/100k
Columbia, PA : home $174,200, crime 2,327/100k
Fort Madison, IA : home $95,900, crime 1,987/100k
Robstown, TX : home $89,500, crime 3,048/100k
Raymondville, TX : home $48,200, crime 2,852/100k
Rockport, TX : home $288,600, crime 2,018/100k
Bastrop, TX : home $308,300, crime 3,665/100k
Sweetwater, TX : home $84,000, crime 1,621/100k
How does Heath compare to other US cities?
Here's how Heath stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income99% higher than other cities
Home value92% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety83% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Texas and the picture shifts: Heath ranks #110 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Heath 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 Heath near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Heath ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Heath only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#18 of 1,520
99th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#40 of 1,505
97th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,321 of 1,663
20th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#71 of 1,663
96th 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
99th percentile nationally for median household income · 83rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Heath's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Heath'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 Heath's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$681,5008th percentilemore affordable than 8% 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
Heath's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,454 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,112 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Heath sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,454 of 15,516 and #1,112 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$216,160Heath, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Heath, 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 Heath, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,218
Median Income
$216,160
Median Home Value
$681,500
Median Age
43.1
Poverty Rate
2.4%
Labor force participation
56.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
543.1
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
101.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
441.3
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Heath's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
9,744 residents
2021
10,139 residents
2022
10,604 residents
2023
11,245 residents
2024
11,473 residents
2025
11,671 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
99
housing units authorized
Single-Family
99
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
120
120
0
$62.1M
2020
136
136
0
$72.9M
2021
229
229
0
$70.2M
2022
178
178
0
$45.6M
2023
75
75
0
$20.9M
2024
99
99
0
$28.4M
Permit volume decreased 17% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
66.8%
Carpool
6.0%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
25.9%
Based on 4,251 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 Heath. 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 Heath 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 Heath sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Heath 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.