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SheetTX-HUNTSVILLE-TX · Huntsville, TX 46,917 pop · income 13th pct · 12 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 Huntsville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Huntsville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Greensburg · lowest
45,386
Greensburg · lowest
45,386 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #1
Thayer · near
45,391
Thayer · near
45,391 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #2
Baxterville · near
45,391
Baxterville · near
45,391 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #3
Ravenswood · near
45,392
Ravenswood · near
45,392 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #4
Huntsville · this city
45,401
Huntsville · this city
45,401 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #5
Fort Polk Nor… · near
45,411
Fort Polk Nor… · near
45,411 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #6
Keller · highest
172,654
Keller · highest
172,654 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 Huntsville 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: 46,917.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Huntsville - the verdict
Nationally, Huntsville sits in the 13th percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
13th
percentile, household income
50th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
31st
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: Huntsville, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 46,917 residents in Huntsville, a small city within Texas. The typical household in Huntsville brings in $45,401 a year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 12.2%. Huntsville's housing stock carries a median value of $225,800, and the median resident age is 31.5 years. Educational attainment runs 24.8% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 45.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 416 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 49% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2044.7 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 66.5°F with 51.3 inches of precipitation per year.
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Huntsville report an average commute of 21.8 minutes, with 76.5% driving alone and 5.9% 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 Huntsville'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 climate and hazard context to population change to work and mobility to reported crime to within-city variation to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Huntsville, city-specific coverage includes within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Huntsville?
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 66.5°F, with 51.3 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.
Is Huntsville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,231 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 416 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.
What can 12 Census tracts reveal inside Huntsville?
PlainCities matches 12 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Huntsville?
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 Haltom City (45,681 residents, $56,156 income); Keller (45,598 residents, $172,654 income); Cedar Hill (48,547 residents, $90,608 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are La Mirada, CA (46,945 residents); Goose Creek, SC (46,964 residents); East Providence, RI (46,970 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 Huntsville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 76.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.8 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
76.5%
Work from home
5.9%
Public transit
0.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 18,137 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Huntsville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2044.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 10% 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
2044.7
Violent rate
513.7
Property rate
1531.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Huntsville?
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 13 public schools within the city match. 24.8% 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
12.2%
Bachelor's degree+
24.8%
Matched public schools
13
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Huntsville?
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 5.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 12.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
5.0×
Home value
$225,800
Household income
$45,401
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
Bachelor's+ share D
24.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
12.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
514 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$45,401
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Huntsville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 48/100 (D) · 24.8%
Poverty rate: 31/100 (F) · 12.2%
Violent crime: 15/100 (F) · 514 /100k
Household income: 14/100 (F) · $45,401
Where Huntsville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Huntsville'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 - Huntsville highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Huntsville, TX (this city): home $225,800, crime 2,045/100k
La Mirada, CA : home $763,200, crime 1,966/100k
Goose Creek, SC : home $279,500, crime 1,722/100k
East Providence, RI : home $322,100, crime 755/100k
Beavercreek, OH : home $261,200, crime 2,068/100k
Los Banos, CA : home $419,600, crime 2,047/100k
Haltom City, TX : home $194,600, crime 2,075/100k
Keller, TX : home $557,700, crime 733/100k
Cedar Hill, TX : home $273,200, crime 1,953/100k
Sherman, TX : home $219,300, crime 2,266/100k
The Colony, TX : home $355,100, crime 1,569/100k
Bedford, TX : home $322,300, crime 1,691/100k
How does Huntsville compare to other US cities?
Here's how Huntsville stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income13% higher than other cities
Home value50% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety31% 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, Huntsville ranks #463 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 Huntsville 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 Huntsville near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Huntsville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Huntsville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,254 of 1,520
18th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#467 of 1,505
69th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#635 of 1,663
61st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#507 of 1,663
69th 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
13th percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Huntsville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Huntsville'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 Huntsville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$225,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 50% 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
Huntsville's home-value-to-income ratio: 5.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,842 of 15,516
More affordable than 17% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,593 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 5.0×, Huntsville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,842 of 15,516 and #2,593 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
$45,401Huntsville, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Huntsville, 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 Huntsville, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)12.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)45.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
46,917
Median Income
$45,401
Median Home Value
$225,800
Median Age
31.5
Poverty Rate
12.2%
Labor force participation
45.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2044.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
513.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1531.0
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.5°F
Annual Precipitation
51.3"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
13
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Huntsville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
45,857 residents
2021
46,940 residents
2022
47,822 residents
2023
49,240 residents
2024
49,043 residents
2025
49,088 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
416
housing units authorized
Single-Family
104
detached homes
Multifamily
312
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
279
44
235
$37.2M
2020
185
117
68
$30.3M
2021
652
247
405
$91.0M
2022
395
301
94
$55.9M
2023
109
93
16
$23.2M
2024
416
104
312
$64.4M
Permit volume increased 49% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.8 minutes
Drive Alone
76.5%
Carpool
8.7%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
5.7%
Work from Home
5.9%
Other
3.1%
Based on 18,137 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 Huntsville. 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 Huntsville 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 Huntsville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Huntsville 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.