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SheetTX-LIVINGSTON-TX · Livingston, TX 5,728 pop · income 23rd pct · 13 tracts
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 Livingston
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Livingston on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Hutchins · lowest
45,250
Hutchins · lowest
45,250 median HH income
20.9% of the leader · rank #1
Arcanum · near
52,380
Arcanum · near
52,380 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #2
Livingston · this city
52,385
Livingston · this city
52,385 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #3
Bradford · near
52,386
Bradford · near
52,386 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #4
North English · near
52,386
North English · near
52,386 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #5
Centralia · near
52,387
Centralia · near
52,387 median HH income
24.2% of the leader · rank #6
Parker · highest
216,179
Parker · highest
216,179 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 Livingston 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: 5,728.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Livingston - the verdict
Nationally, Livingston sits in the 23rd percentile for household income and the 9th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
23rd
percentile, household income
29th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
9th
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: Livingston, TX
Texas's Livingston is a small town, with 5,728 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Livingston households earn a median of $52,385 annually, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 20.5%. Livingston's housing stock carries a median value of $158,100, and the median resident age is 37.1 years. About 15.2% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 59.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 21 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 80% from five years earlier. Livingston's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3771.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 68.6°F with 51.0 inches of precipitation per year.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). 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 Livingston'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 climate and hazard context to schools and households to housing and income to comparison shortlist to population change to work and mobility to reported crime to within-city variation; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Livingston, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What physical conditions frame life in Livingston?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 68.6°F, with 51.0 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Texas is 49.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
What does the education layer cover for Livingston?
The NCES join finds 7 public schools within the city match. 15.2% 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 Livingston?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Hutchins (5,713 residents, $45,250 income); San Leon (5,764 residents, $76,573 income); Elsa (5,688 residents, $55,519 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are International Falls, MN (5,728 residents); East Alton, IL (5,729 residents); Abingdon, MD (5,727 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.
What can 13 Census tracts reveal inside Livingston?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 13 Census tracts to this city.
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 Livingston?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 20.5%, 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
$52,385
Home value
$158,100
Value / income
3.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Livingston growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -342 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -6.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 21 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
-6.0%
2025 estimate
5,386
2020 estimate
5,728
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What does the journey to work look like in Livingston?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.9%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
1.9%
Drive alone
82.9%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,620 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Livingston?
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 3771.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 65% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
3302.6
Violent rate
469.3
Total reported rate
3771.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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.
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.
Household income F
$52,385
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
15.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
469 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
20.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Livingston profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 23/100 (F) · $52,385
Bachelor's+ share: 21/100 (F) · 15.2%
Violent crime: 18/100 (F) · 469 /100k
Poverty rate: 12/100 (F) · 20.5%
Where Livingston sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Livingston'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 - Livingston highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Livingston, TX (this city): home $158,100, crime 3,772/100k
International Falls, MN : home $115,000, crime 1,570/100k
East Alton, IL : home $99,600, crime 2,055/100k
Newmarket, NH : home $364,800, crime 432/100k
Ware, MA : home $229,700, crime 1,052/100k
Hutchins, TX : home $95,500, crime 3,975/100k
Elsa, TX : home $90,600, crime 3,315/100k
Kermit, TX : home $119,300, crime 631/100k
Parker, TX : home $852,000, crime 389/100k
Yoakum, TX : home $134,100, crime 992/100k
How does Livingston compare to other US cities?
Where Livingston sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income23% higher than other cities
Home value29% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety9% 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, Livingston ranks #596 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 Livingston 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 Livingston near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Livingston ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Livingston only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,066 of 1,520
30th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#761 of 1,505
49th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#314 of 1,663
81st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#947 of 1,663
43rd 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
23rd percentile nationally for median household income · 9th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Livingston's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Livingston'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 Livingston's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$158,100Among the most affordablemore affordable than 71% 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
Livingston's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,786 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#5,723 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 3.0×, Livingston sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,786 of 15,516 and #5,723 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
$52,385Livingston, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Livingston, 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 Livingston, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)15.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)20.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
5,728
Median Income
$52,385
Median Home Value
$158,100
Median Age
37.1
Poverty Rate
20.5%
Labor force participation
59.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
15.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3771.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
469.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3302.6
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
68.6°F
Annual Precipitation
51.0"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Livingston's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,728 residents
2021
5,789 residents
2022
5,722 residents
2023
5,664 residents
2024
5,503 residents
2025
5,386 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
21
housing units authorized
Single-Family
17
detached homes
Multifamily
4
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
107
9
98
$8.2M
2020
37
23
14
$4.0M
2021
13
11
2
$2.0M
2022
33
15
18
$10.4M
2023
12
8
4
$1.9M
2024
21
17
4
$2.9M
Permit volume decreased 80% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
82.9%
Carpool
12.7%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
1.9%
Other
1.4%
Based on 2,620 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 Livingston. 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 Livingston 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 Livingston sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Livingston 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, NOAA Climate Normals, 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.