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SheetTX-IOWA-COLONY-TX · Iowa Colony, TX 11,028 pop · income 89th 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 Iowa Colony
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Iowa Colony on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Guthrie · lowest
54,640
Guthrie · lowest
54,640 median HH income
36.2% of the leader · rank #1
Hainesville · near
126,125
Hainesville · near
126,125 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #2
Granby · near
126,136
Granby · near
126,136 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #3
Iowa Colony · this city
126,167
Iowa Colony · this city
126,167 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #4
Bloomingdale · near
126,221
Bloomingdale · near
126,221 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #5
Woodbury · near
126,222
Woodbury · near
126,222 median HH income
83.5% of the leader · rank #6
Summerfield · highest
151,131
Summerfield · highest
151,131 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 Iowa Colony 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: 11,028.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Iowa Colony - the verdict
Iowa Colony ranks in the 89th percentile for household income and the 77th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
89th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
77th
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: Iowa Colony, TX
Texas's Iowa Colony is a small town, with 11,028 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Iowa Colony report a median income of $126,167 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.4%. Iowa Colony's housing stock carries a median value of $356,300, and the median resident age is 34.5 years. About 44.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 70.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1,180 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 93% from five years earlier. Iowa Colony reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 690.0 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Iowa Colony'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 reported crime to schools and households to population change to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Iowa Colony, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Iowa Colony?
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 690.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 70% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the education layer cover for Iowa Colony?
The NCES join finds 2 public schools within the city match. 44.1% 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 matched institution count is small, so district boundaries and schools outside the city line may matter more than the municipal count suggests. Use the number as a coverage cue, then verify attendance zones with the district before making a household decision.
Is Iowa Colony 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 +11,953 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +139.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,180 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Which cities make useful reference points for Iowa Colony?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Heartland (11,019 residents, $107,165 income); Burkburnett (11,012 residents, $65,796 income); Elgin (10,996 residents, $85,666 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Holmen, WI (11,027 residents); Summerfield, NC (11,031 residents); Greentree, NJ (11,024 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.
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 Iowa Colony?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.4%, 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
$126,167
Home value
$356,300
Value / income
2.8×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Iowa Colony?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
20.7%
Drive alone
75.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,519 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
$126,167
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
44.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B
97 /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.
Iowa Colony profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 89/100 (A) · $126,167
Bachelor's+ share: 79/100 (B+) · 44.1%
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.4%
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 97 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Iowa Colony sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Iowa Colony'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 - Iowa Colony highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Iowa Colony, TX (this city): home $356,300, crime 690/100k
Holmen, WI : home $262,600, crime 513/100k
Monument, CO : home $586,400, crime 1,984/100k
Guthrie, OK : home $176,200, crime 1,835/100k
Burkburnett, TX : home $143,500, crime 1,007/100k
Elgin, TX : home $267,900, crime 1,642/100k
Pleasanton, TX : home $203,100, crime 2,260/100k
Fredericksburg, TX : home $442,800, crime 640/100k
Selma, TX : home $288,700, crime 2,455/100k
How does Iowa Colony compare to other US cities?
Here's how Iowa Colony stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety77% 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: Iowa Colony ranks #148 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 Iowa Colony 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 Iowa Colony near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Iowa Colony ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Iowa Colony only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#118 of 1,520
92nd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#183 of 1,505
88th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,240 of 1,663
25th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#181 of 1,663
89th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income · 77th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Iowa Colony's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Iowa Colony'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 Iowa Colony's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$356,30027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
Iowa Colony's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,714 of 15,516
More affordable than 63% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#678 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.8×, Iowa Colony sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,714 of 15,516 and #678 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$126,167Iowa Colony, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Iowa Colony, 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 Iowa Colony, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)44.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
11,028
Median Income
$126,167
Median Home Value
$356,300
Median Age
34.5
Poverty Rate
3.4%
Labor force participation
70.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
44.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
690.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
96.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
593.6
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
2
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Iowa Colony's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
8,550 residents
2021
10,805 residents
2022
12,954 residents
2023
14,803 residents
2024
17,141 residents
2025
20,503 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,180
housing units authorized
Single-Family
883
detached homes
Multifamily
297
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
107
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
611
611
0
$95.6M
2020
796
796
0
$185.6M
2021
759
759
0
$214.3M
2022
627
627
0
$156.8M
2023
780
780
0
$219.0M
2024
1,180
883
297
$296.2M
Permit volume increased 93% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.4%
Carpool
3.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
20.7%
Based on 5,519 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 Iowa Colony. 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 Iowa Colony 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 Iowa Colony sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Iowa Colony 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.