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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-KEENE-TX · Keene, TX 6,574 pop · income 21st 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 Keene
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Keene on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Carthage · lowest
44,738
Carthage · lowest
44,738 median HH income
28.1% of the leader · rank #1
Moshannon · near
50,795
Moshannon · near
50,795 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #2
White Stone · near
50,795
White Stone · near
50,795 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #3
Keene · this city
50,796
Keene · this city
50,796 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #4
Osgood · near
50,799
Osgood · near
50,799 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #5
Bieber · near
50,800
Bieber · near
50,800 median HH income
31.9% of the leader · rank #6
Pelican Bay · highest
159,187
Pelican Bay · highest
159,187 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 Keene 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: 6,574.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Keene - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Keene lands in the 21st percentile for household income and the 79th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
21st
percentile, household income
48th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
79th
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: Keene, TX
Texas's Keene is a small town, with 6,574 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Keene report a median income of $50,796 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 13.4%. Keene's housing stock carries a median value of $219,900, and the median resident age is 33.8 years. Educational attainment runs 25.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 51 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 920% from five years earlier. Keene reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 641.9 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. 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 Keene'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 reported crime to population change to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Keene, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, 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. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Keene?
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 4 public schools within the city match. 25.6% 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 Keene?
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 4.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.4%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for Keene?
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 Iowa Park (6,574 residents, $64,340 income); Carthage (6,568 residents, $44,738 income); Olivarez (6,566 residents, $62,985 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Pelican Bay, FL (6,575 residents); Wailea, HI (6,571 residents); Geneseo, IL (6,577 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Keene?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 641.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% 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.
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 Keene growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +669 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 51 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.
2020 estimate
6,440
2025 estimate
7,109
Period change
+10.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.5%. 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. 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
81.5%
Work from home
7.0%
Public transit
0.3%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,056 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.
Violent crime C+
143 /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.
Bachelor's+ share C-
25.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$50,796
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Keene profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Violent crime: 60/100 (C+) · 143 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 50/100 (C-) · 25.6%
Poverty rate: 26/100 (F) · 13.4%
Household income: 21/100 (F) · $50,796
Where Keene sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Keene'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 - Keene highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Keene, TX (this city): home $219,900, crime 642/100k
Geneseo, IL : home $196,400, crime 951/100k
Treasure Island, FL : home $573,500, crime 2,014/100k
Upper Sandusky, OH : home $151,300, crime 2,262/100k
Iowa Park, TX : home $121,800, crime 789/100k
Carthage, TX : home $153,100, crime 2,418/100k
Burnet, TX : home $245,900, crime 606/100k
Aubrey, TX : home $338,900, crime 1,891/100k
How does Keene compare to other US cities?
Keene measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income21% higher than other cities
Home value48% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety79% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Texas, Keene ranks #137 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a narrower, more locally useful cut than the national comparison above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Keene 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 Keene near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Keene ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Keene only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,121 of 1,520
26th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#483 of 1,505
68th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#572 of 1,663
65th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#482 of 1,663
71st 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
21st percentile nationally for median household income · 79th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Keene's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Keene'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 Keene's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$219,900Among the most affordablemore affordable than 52% 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
Keene's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#11,598 of 15,516
More affordable than 25% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#8,931 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 4.3×, Keene sits in the moderate band:
national rank #11,598 of 15,516 and #8,931 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
$50,796Keene, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Keene, 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 Keene, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)25.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,574
Median Income
$50,796
Median Home Value
$219,900
Median Age
33.8
Poverty Rate
13.4%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
25.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
641.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
142.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
499.3
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
4
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Keene's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
6,440 residents
2021
6,463 residents
2022
6,767 residents
2023
6,905 residents
2024
6,963 residents
2025
7,109 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
51
housing units authorized
Single-Family
49
detached homes
Multifamily
2
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$0.8M
2020
2
2
0
$0.3M
2021
91
91
0
$23.0M
2022
28
28
0
$7.4M
2023
11
7
4
$2.6M
2024
51
49
2
$8.1M
Permit volume increased 920% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.5%
Carpool
8.9%
Public Transit
0.3%
Walk
2.4%
Work from Home
7.0%
Based on 3,056 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 Keene. 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 Keene 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 Keene sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Keene 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.