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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-LONGVIEW-TX · Longview, TX 82,765 pop · income 39th pct · 30 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 Longview
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Longview on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pharr · lowest
49,884
Pharr · lowest
49,884 median HH income
43.2% of the leader · rank #1
Gautier · near
62,480
Gautier · near
62,480 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #2
Longview · this city
62,488
Longview · this city
62,488 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #3
Industry · near
62,500
Industry · near
62,500 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #4
Buncombe · near
62,500
Buncombe · near
62,500 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #5
Colchester · near
62,500
Colchester · near
62,500 median HH income
54.1% of the leader · rank #6
Waldorf · highest
115,453
Waldorf · highest
115,453 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 Longview 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: 82,765.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Longview - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Longview places in the 39th percentile for household income and the 20th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
39th
percentile, household income
37th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
20th
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: Longview, TX
Longview is a small city in Texas, home to 82,765 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $62,488 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 13.2%. Home values in Longview run a median of $182,700, and the median resident age is 35.3 years. About 22.8% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 59.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 157 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), down 5% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2689.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 65.2°F with 48.2 inches of precipitation per year and 0.7 inches of snowfall.
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. The average commute for Longview workers runs 19.8 minutes, with 82.4% driving alone and 5.7% working from home. 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 Longview'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 within-city variation to climate and hazard context to work and mobility to schools and households to reported crime to population change to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Longview, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Within-city variation
What can 30 Census tracts reveal inside Longview?
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 30 Census tracts to this city.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 65.2°F, with 48.2 inches of precipitation and 0.7 inches of annual snowfall. 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 journey to work look like in Longview?
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 82.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 19.8 minutes.
Which cities make useful reference points for Longview?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Baytown (84,538 residents, $61,699 income); Pharr (79,809 residents, $49,884 income); Bryan (86,169 residents, $56,861 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Warwick, RI (82,871 residents); Cranston, RI (82,632 residents); Waldorf, MD (82,541 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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Longview?
The NCES join finds 27 public schools within the city match. 22.8% 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.
Matched public schools
27
Bachelor's degree+
22.8%
Poverty estimate
13.2%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Longview?
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 2689.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 18% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2350.5
Violent rate
339.0
Total reported rate
2689.5
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Is Longview 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 +1,481 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +1.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 157 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
+1.8%
2025 estimate
83,236
2020 estimate
81,755
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Longview?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 13.2%, 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
$62,488
Home value
$182,700
Value / income
2.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 13.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Longview, TX
37/100
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.
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 D
22.8%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$62,488
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
13.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime F
339 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Longview profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 42/100 (D) · 22.8%
Household income: 38/100 (F) · $62,488
Poverty rate: 27/100 (F) · 13.2%
Violent crime: 27/100 (F) · 339 /100k
Where Longview sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Longview'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 - Longview highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Longview, TX (this city): home $182,700, crime 2,690/100k
Warwick, RI : home $322,000, crime 1,227/100k
Cranston, RI : home $348,800, crime 1,145/100k
Layton, UT : home $437,400, crime 1,476/100k
Buena Park, CA : home $771,900, crime 2,613/100k
Baytown, TX : home $187,900, crime 3,241/100k
Pharr, TX : home $111,500, crime 1,359/100k
Bryan, TX : home $210,600, crime 1,833/100k
Mission, TX : home $160,800, crime 1,338/100k
Temple, TX : home $220,300, crime 2,679/100k
Georgetown, TX : home $398,600, crime 1,361/100k
How does Longview compare to other US cities?
Where Longview sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income39% higher than other cities
Home value37% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety20% 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, Longview ranks #539 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 Longview 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 Longview near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Longview ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Longview only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#788 of 1,520
48th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#630 of 1,505
58th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#581 of 1,663
65th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#568 of 1,663
66th 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
39th percentile nationally for median household income · 20th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Longview's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Longview'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 Longview's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$182,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 63% 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
Longview's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,273 of 15,516
More affordable than 60% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#106 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.9×, Longview sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,273 of 15,516 and #106 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$62,488Longview, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Longview, 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 Longview, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)22.8%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)13.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
82,765
Median Income
$62,488
Median Home Value
$182,700
Median Age
35.3
Poverty Rate
13.2%
Labor force participation
59.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
22.8%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2689.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
339.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2350.5
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
65.2°F
Annual Precipitation
48.2"
Annual Snowfall
0.7"
Schools
Total Schools
27
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Longview's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
81,755 residents
2021
81,729 residents
2022
82,679 residents
2023
83,424 residents
2024
83,422 residents
2025
83,236 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
157
housing units authorized
Single-Family
139
detached homes
Multifamily
18
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
1.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
166
152
14
$30.9M
2020
225
211
14
$72.1M
2021
325
225
100
$64.2M
2022
402
250
152
$76.8M
2023
229
225
4
$64.1M
2024
157
139
18
$43.7M
Permit volume decreased 5% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
19.8 minutes
Drive Alone
82.4%
Carpool
9.7%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
5.7%
Other
0.9%
Based on 38,004 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 Longview. 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 Longview 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 Longview sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Longview 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.