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SheetTX-IRVING-TX · Irving, TX 255,036 pop · income 61st 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 Irving
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Irving on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Winston-Salem · lowest
57,673
Winston-Salem · lowest
57,673 median HH income
39.5% of the leader · rank #1
South Yarmouth · near
79,638
South Yarmouth · near
79,638 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #2
Irving · this city
79,641
Irving · this city
79,641 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #3
Portsmouth · near
79,643
Portsmouth · near
79,643 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #4
Cairo · near
79,643
Cairo · near
79,643 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #5
Laketown · near
79,643
Laketown · near
79,643 median HH income
54.5% 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 Irving 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: 255,036.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Irving - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Irving lands in the 61st percentile for household income and the 23rd percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
61st
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
23rd
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: Irving, TX
Texas's Irving is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 255,036 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Irving brings in $79,641 a year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.5%. Home values in Irving run a median of $287,300, and the median resident age is 32.8 years. About 41.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 68.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 546 residential building permits were authorized in Irving (Construction Slowdown), down 73% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2474.2 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Workers in Irving report an average commute of 19.9 minutes, with 68.8% driving alone and 17.3% working from home. 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 Irving'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 population change to work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Irving, 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. Population change
Is Irving growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +190 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 546 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in Irving?
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 68.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.9 minutes.
The NCES join finds 59 public schools within the city match. 41.6% 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.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Irving?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Laredo (255,949 residents, $63,264 income); Lubbock (261,078 residents, $60,487 income); Garland (245,298 residents, $74,717 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Chesapeake, VA (251,153 residents); Winston-Salem, NC (250,887 residents); Glendale, AZ (250,193 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 Irving?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.5%, 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
$79,641
Home value
$287,300
Value / income
3.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Irving?
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 2474.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 8% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2198.8
Violent rate
275.4
Total reported rate
2474.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 8.5% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C-
City profile score · Irving, TX
53/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income C
$79,641
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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.
Poverty rate D
8.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
275 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Irving profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.6%
Household income: 59/100 (C) · $79,641
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 46/100 (D) · 8.5%
Violent crime: 37/100 (F) · 275 /100k
Where Irving sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Irving'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 - Irving highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Irving, TX (this city): home $287,300, crime 2,474/100k
Chesapeake, VA : home $359,100, crime 2,084/100k
Winston-Salem, NC : home $208,200, crime 3,731/100k
Glendale, AZ : home $347,000, crime 3,159/100k
St. Petersburg, FL : home $331,500, crime 3,079/100k
Fort Wayne, IN : home $169,700, crime 2,531/100k
Scottsdale, AZ : home $709,900, crime 2,028/100k
Laredo, TX : home $182,400, crime 1,831/100k
Lubbock, TX : home $197,900, crime 3,450/100k
Garland, TX : home $248,900, crime 2,221/100k
Plano, TX : home $440,600, crime 1,618/100k
Frisco, TX : home $595,400, crime 1,104/100k
McKinney, TX : home $439,500, crime 933/100k
How does Irving compare to other US cities?
Irving measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income61% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety23% 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: Irving ranks #518 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 Irving 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 Irving near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Irving ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Irving only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#439 of 1,520
71st percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#294 of 1,505
80th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#845 of 1,663
49th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#205 of 1,663
88th 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
61st percentile nationally for median household income · 23rd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Irving's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Irving'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 Irving's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$287,30037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
Irving's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,387 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#30 of 117
Large cities (200,000–999,999)
At 3.6×, Irving sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,387 of 15,516 and #30 of 117large cities (200,000–999,999).
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
$79,641Irving, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Irving, 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 Irving, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)68.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
255,036
Median Income
$79,641
Median Home Value
$287,300
Median Age
32.8
Poverty Rate
8.5%
Labor force participation
68.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2474.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
275.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2198.8
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
Irving's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
256,886 residents
2021
254,513 residents
2022
255,305 residents
2023
257,427 residents
2024
258,637 residents
2025
257,076 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
546
housing units authorized
Single-Family
112
detached homes
Multifamily
434
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
2.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,987
613
1,374
$391.0M
2020
784
627
157
$239.9M
2021
1,094
366
728
$193.5M
2022
1,356
157
1,199
$298.2M
2023
550
172
378
$139.9M
2024
546
112
434
$151.0M
Permit volume decreased 73% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.9 minutes
Drive Alone
68.8%
Carpool
10.2%
Public Transit
1.0%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
17.3%
Other
1.7%
Based on 131,928 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 Irving. 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 Irving 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 Irving sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Irving 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.