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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-KELLER-TX · Keller, TX 45,598 pop · income 96th 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 Keller
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Keller on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Huntsville · lowest
45,401
Huntsville · lowest
45,401 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #1
Paragon Estat… · near
172,625
Paragon Estat… · near
172,625 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #2
Keller · this city
172,654
Keller · this city
172,654 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #3
Tower Lakes · near
172,656
Tower Lakes · near
172,656 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #4
Acalanes Ridge · near
172,667
Acalanes Ridge · near
172,667 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #5
Genesee · near
172,692
Genesee · near
172,692 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
Hockessin · highest
172,695
Hockessin · highest
172,695 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 Keller 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: 45,598.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Keller - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Keller lands in the 96th percentile for household income and the 75th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
96th
percentile, household income
87th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
75th
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: Keller, TX
Texas's Keller is a small city, with 45,598 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Keller brings in $172,654 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.1%. Home values in Keller run a median of $557,700, and the median resident age is 44.1 years. Educational attainment runs 60.1% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 64.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 35 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 64% from five years earlier. Keller reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 733.0 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. 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 Keller'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 work and mobility to population change to comparison shortlist to reported crime to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Keller, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Keller?
The NCES join finds 26 public schools within the city match. 60.1% 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 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Keller?
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 68.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
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 +374 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +0.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 35 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 Keller?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Haltom City (45,681 residents, $56,156 income); Sherman (45,036 residents, $60,935 income); The Colony (44,916 residents, $111,090 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Odenton, MD (45,585 residents); Ashburn, VA (45,551 residents); Altamonte Springs, FL (45,657 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Keller?
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 733.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 68% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
655.6
Violent rate
77.4
Total reported rate
733.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Keller?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.1%, 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
$172,654
Home value
$557,700
Value / income
3.2×
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.
Household income A+
$172,654
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A+
60.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate A
2.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime B+
77 /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.
Keller profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 100/100 (A+) · $172,654
Bachelor's+ share: 92/100 (A+) · 60.1%
Poverty rate: 85/100 (A) · 2.1%
Violent crime: 76/100 (B+) · 77 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Keller sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Keller'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 - Keller highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Keller, TX (this city): home $557,700, crime 733/100k
Altamonte Springs, FL : home $263,600, crime 2,652/100k
Elmhurst, IL : home $532,800, crime 883/100k
Plainfield, IL : home $398,000, crime 741/100k
Wentzville, MO : home $302,700, crime 854/100k
Haltom City, TX : home $194,600, crime 2,075/100k
Sherman, TX : home $219,300, crime 2,266/100k
The Colony, TX : home $355,100, crime 1,569/100k
Huntsville, TX : home $225,800, crime 2,045/100k
Waxahachie, TX : home $307,900, crime 1,794/100k
How does Keller compare to other US cities?
Here's how Keller stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income96% higher than other cities
Home value87% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety75% 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, Keller ranks #157 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 Keller 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 Keller near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Keller ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Keller only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#42 of 1,520
97th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#60 of 1,505
96th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,341 of 1,663
19th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#75 of 1,663
95th 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
96th percentile nationally for median household income · 75th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Keller's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Keller'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 Keller's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$557,70013th percentilemore affordable than 13% 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
Keller's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,831 of 15,516
More affordable than 50% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,212 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Keller sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,831 of 15,516 and #1,212 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
$172,654Keller, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Keller, 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 Keller, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)60.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)64.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
45,598
Median Income
$172,654
Median Home Value
$557,700
Median Age
44.1
Poverty Rate
2.1%
Labor force participation
64.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
60.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
733.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
77.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
655.6
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
26
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Keller's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
45,704 residents
2021
45,442 residents
2022
45,312 residents
2023
46,530 residents
2024
46,599 residents
2025
46,078 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
35
housing units authorized
Single-Family
35
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
98
98
0
$56.8M
2020
79
79
0
$44.2M
2021
101
101
0
$60.4M
2022
532
57
475
$105.4M
2023
17
17
0
$19.9M
2024
35
35
0
$33.4M
Permit volume decreased 64% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
68.0%
Carpool
5.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
23.9%
Other
1.8%
Based on 22,707 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 Keller. 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 Keller 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 Keller sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Keller 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.