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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-JUSTIN-TX · Justin, TX 5,068 pop · income 74th 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 Justin
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Justin on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Doffing · lowest
26,525
Doffing · lowest
26,525 median HH income
12.2% of the leader · rank #1
Mantee · near
93,875
Mantee · near
93,875 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #2
Charleston · near
93,875
Charleston · near
93,875 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #3
Justin · this city
93,887
Justin · this city
93,887 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #4
Air Force Aca… · near
93,889
Air Force Aca… · near
93,889 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #5
Pike Creek Va… · near
93,896
Pike Creek Va… · near
93,896 median HH income
43.1% of the leader · rank #6
Terrell Hills · highest
217,800
Terrell Hills · highest
217,800 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 Justin 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: 5,068.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Justin - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Justin places in the 74th percentile for household income and the 69th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
74th
percentile, household income
74th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
69th
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: Justin, TX
Justin is a small town in Texas, home to 5,068 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Justin households earn a median of $93,887 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Typical homes in Justin are valued around $364,500, and the median resident age is 38.1 years. Educational attainment runs 36.0% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 66.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 435 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 188% from five years earlier. Justin reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 883.7 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Justin'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 work and mobility to schools and households to housing and income to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Justin, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, 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. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Justin?
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 78.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
The NCES join finds 6 public schools within the city match. 36.0% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Justin?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Justin?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Giddings (5,085 residents, $51,397 income); Terrell Hills (5,050 residents, $217,800 income); Port Isabel (5,098 residents, $50,775 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Silver Hill, MD (5,068 residents); Spring House, PA (5,068 residents); Todd Creek, CO (5,069 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.
Population change
Is Justin 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 +2,780 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +61.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 435 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
+61.7%
2025 estimate
7,285
2020 estimate
4,505
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Justin?
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 883.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 61% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
806.2
Violent rate
77.5
Total reported rate
883.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
B
City profile score · Justin, TX
74/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
78 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income B
$93,887
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.0%
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.
Justin profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 78 /100k
Household income: 73/100 (B) · $93,887
Bachelor's+ share: 68/100 (B-) · 36.0%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Justin sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Justin'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 - Justin highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Justin, TX (this city): home $364,500, crime 884/100k
Concordia, KS : home $96,100, crime 1,587/100k
Lone Grove, OK : home $184,400, crime 1,123/100k
Giddings, TX : home $192,800, crime 1,328/100k
Terrell Hills, TX : home $762,200, crime 1,758/100k
Port Isabel, TX : home $120,900, crime 4,194/100k
Hudson, TX : home $169,000, crime 377/100k
Hickory Creek, TX : home $510,100, crime 928/100k
How does Justin compare to other US cities?
Justin measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income74% higher than other cities
Home value74% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety69% 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: Justin ranks #197 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 Justin 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 Justin near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Justin ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Justin only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#294 of 1,520
81st percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#175 of 1,505
88th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,440 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#279 of 1,663
83rd 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
74th percentile nationally for median household income · 69th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Justin's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Justin'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 Justin's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$364,50026th percentilemore affordable than 26% 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
Justin's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,337 of 15,516
More affordable than 33% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,134 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.9×, Justin sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,337 of 15,516 and #8,134 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$93,887Justin, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Justin, 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 Justin, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)66.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,068
Median Income
$93,887
Median Home Value
$364,500
Median Age
38.1
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
66.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
883.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
77.5
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
806.2
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
6
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Justin's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,505 residents
2021
5,010 residents
2022
5,630 residents
2023
5,926 residents
2024
6,203 residents
2025
7,285 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
435
housing units authorized
Single-Family
435
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
85.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
151
151
0
$37.6M
2020
206
206
0
$64.1M
2021
233
233
0
$84.3M
2022
127
127
0
$48.8M
2023
115
115
0
$39.4M
2024
435
435
0
$139.3M
Permit volume increased 188% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.6%
Carpool
3.2%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
15.5%
Other
1.9%
Based on 2,593 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 Justin. 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 Justin 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 Justin sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Justin 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.