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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-LA-PORTE-TX · La Porte, TX 36,077 pop · income 63rd 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 La Porte
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest La Porte on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Texarkana · lowest
49,240
Texarkana · lowest
49,240 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #1
Utica · near
81,797
Utica · near
81,797 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #2
Acomita Lake · near
81,797
Acomita Lake · near
81,797 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #3
Harleigh · near
81,797
Harleigh · near
81,797 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #4
South Fulton · near
81,798
South Fulton · near
81,798 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #5
La Porte · this city
81,801
La Porte · this city
81,801 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #6
Olney · highest
171,766
Olney · highest
171,766 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 La Porte 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: 36,077.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
La Porte - the verdict
Nationally, La Porte sits in the 63rd percentile for household income and the 59th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
63rd
percentile, household income
48th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
59th
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: La Porte, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 36,077 residents in La Porte, a small city within Texas. La Porte households earn a median of $81,801 annually, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.6%. La Porte's housing stock carries a median value of $217,100, and the median resident age is 37.1 years. 18.5% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 62.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 109 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 79% from five years earlier. La Porte reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1131.2 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Texas at 97.1 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Near Average). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Commute times here average 23.1 minutes, with 80.9% driving alone and 7.5% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 La Porte'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 population change to housing and income to comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For La Porte, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
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 journey to work look like in La Porte?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.9%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.1 minutes.
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.
Is La Porte growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,685 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.6% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 109 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.
How far does income reach against housing in La Porte?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Which cities make useful reference points for La Porte?
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 Texarkana (36,039 residents, $49,240 income); Socorro (36,237 residents, $52,100 income); Farmers Branch (36,254 residents, $87,702 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Dunedin, FL (36,060 residents); North Ridgeville, OH (36,043 residents); Olney, MD (36,000 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.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for La Porte?
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 11 public schools within the city match. 18.5% 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.
Poverty estimate
9.6%
Bachelor's degree+
18.5%
Matched public schools
11
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in La Porte?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1131.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 50% 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.
Total reported rate
1131.2
Violent rate
173.0
Property rate
958.2
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 9.6% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · La Porte, TX
49/100
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.
Household income C+
$81,801
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.
Violent crime C-
173 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
9.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
18.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
La Porte profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 61/100 (C+) · $81,801
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 53/100 (C-) · 173 /100k
Poverty rate: 41/100 (D) · 9.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 30/100 (F) · 18.5%
Where La Porte sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
La Porte'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 - La Porte highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
La Porte, TX (this city): home $217,100, crime 1,131/100k
Dunedin, FL : home $341,700, crime 1,003/100k
San Luis, AZ : home $197,400, crime 637/100k
Texarkana, TX : home $159,700, crime 2,892/100k
Socorro, TX : home $131,200, crime 954/100k
Farmers Branch, TX : home $322,000, crime 2,749/100k
San Juan, TX : home $118,200, crime 1,573/100k
Copperas Cove, TX : home $167,900, crime 1,674/100k
How does La Porte compare to other US cities?
La Porte measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income63% higher than other cities
Home value48% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety59% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Texas alone, La Porte ranks #265 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares La Porte 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 La Porte near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, La Porte ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares La Porte only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#419 of 1,520
72nd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#500 of 1,505
67th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#769 of 1,663
54th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#744 of 1,663
55th 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
63rd percentile nationally for median household income · 59th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
La Porte's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
La Porte'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 La Porte's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$217,100Among 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
La Porte's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,788 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#498 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.7×, La Porte sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,788 of 15,516 and #498 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
$81,801La Porte, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context La Porte, 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 La Porte, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)18.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,077
Median Income
$81,801
Median Home Value
$217,100
Median Age
37.1
Poverty Rate
9.6%
Labor force participation
62.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
18.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1131.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
173.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
958.2
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
La Porte's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
35,298 residents
2021
36,049 residents
2022
36,756 residents
2023
37,400 residents
2024
37,916 residents
2025
37,983 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
109
housing units authorized
Single-Family
109
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
511
161
350
$43.0M
2020
549
255
294
$89.0M
2021
320
320
0
$74.2M
2022
291
285
6
$72.7M
2023
154
154
0
$42.2M
2024
109
109
0
$31.3M
Permit volume decreased 79% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.1 minutes
Drive Alone
80.9%
Carpool
10.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
7.5%
Other
1.0%
Based on 16,821 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 La Porte. 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 La Porte 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 La Porte sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How La Porte 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.