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SheetTX-MANSFIELD-TX · Mansfield, TX 75,398 pop · income 86th 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 Mansfield
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mansfield on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pharr · lowest
49,884
Pharr · lowest
49,884 median HH income
30.8% of the leader · rank #1
Enumclaw · near
116,563
Enumclaw · near
116,563 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #2
Cottonwood He… · near
116,583
Cottonwood He… · near
116,583 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #3
Mansfield · this city
116,590
Mansfield · this city
116,590 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #4
Broussard · near
116,613
Broussard · near
116,613 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #5
Valley Center · near
116,620
Valley Center · near
116,620 median HH income
71.9% of the leader · rank #6
Redmond · highest
162,099
Redmond · highest
162,099 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 Mansfield 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: 75,398.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mansfield - the verdict
Mansfield ranks in the 86th percentile for household income and the 47th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
75th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
47th
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: Mansfield, TX
Mansfield is a small city in Texas, home to 75,398 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Mansfield brings in $116,590 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.7%. Home values in Mansfield run a median of $380,000, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. 43.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 69.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 1,731 residential building permits were authorized in Mansfield (Building Boom), up 271% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Mansfield reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1474.5 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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). 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. The average commute for Mansfield workers runs 24.3 minutes, with 76.5% driving alone and 13.9% 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 Mansfield'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 housing and income to population change to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mansfield, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, 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
How far does income reach against housing in Mansfield?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.7%, 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.
Is Mansfield 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 +11,662 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +16.0% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,731 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Mansfield?
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 1474.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 35% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mansfield?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Missouri City (75,234 residents, $96,746 income); Cedar Park (77,474 residents, $123,972 income); Flower Mound (77,886 residents, $157,737 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Apple Valley, CA (75,478 residents); Pawtucket, RI (75,280 residents); Iowa City, IA (75,264 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Mansfield?
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 76.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.3 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
13.9%
Drive alone
76.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 39,111 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Mansfield?
The NCES join finds 28 public schools within the city match. 43.2% 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.
Matched public schools
28
Bachelor's degree+
43.2%
Poverty estimate
4.7%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
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-
$116,590
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime B
93 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B-
4.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Mansfield profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $116,590
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.2%
Violent crime: 72/100 (B) · 93 /100k
Poverty rate: 67/100 (B-) · 4.7%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Mansfield sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mansfield'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 - Mansfield highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Mansfield, TX (this city): home $380,000, crime 1,475/100k
Apple Valley, CA : home $377,300, crime 2,119/100k
Pawtucket, RI : home $286,200, crime 1,819/100k
Iowa City, IA : home $273,600, crime 1,995/100k
Missoula, MT : home $427,400, crime 4,226/100k
Broomfield, CO : home $631,600, crime 2,004/100k
Redmond, WA : home $1,091,700, crime 2,870/100k
Missouri City, TX : home $281,600, crime 1,191/100k
Cedar Park, TX : home $474,800, crime 1,294/100k
Flower Mound, TX : home $514,100, crime 640/100k
Georgetown, TX : home $398,600, crime 1,361/100k
Harlingen, TX : home $125,700, crime 2,977/100k
Pharr, TX : home $111,500, crime 1,359/100k
How does Mansfield compare to other US cities?
Here's how Mansfield stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value75% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety47% 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, Mansfield ranks #336 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 Mansfield 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 Mansfield near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mansfield ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mansfield only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#151 of 1,520
90th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#157 of 1,505
90th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,147 of 1,663
31st percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#189 of 1,663
89th 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
86th percentile nationally for median household income · 47th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mansfield's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mansfield'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 Mansfield's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$380,00025th percentilemore affordable than 25% 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
Mansfield's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,945 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#157 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Mansfield sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,945 of 15,516 and #157 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$116,590Mansfield, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mansfield, 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 Mansfield, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
75,398
Median Income
$116,590
Median Home Value
$380,000
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
4.7%
Labor force participation
69.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1474.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
93.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1381.4
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
28
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mansfield's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
72,782 residents
2021
74,460 residents
2022
76,853 residents
2023
78,864 residents
2024
80,641 residents
2025
84,444 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,731
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,035
detached homes
Multifamily
696
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
23
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
466
466
0
$163.2M
2020
845
845
0
$295.7M
2021
1,050
1,050
0
$348.6M
2022
850
842
8
$292.5M
2023
637
627
10
$214.2M
2024
1,731
1,035
696
$469.4M
Permit volume increased 271% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.3 minutes
Drive Alone
76.5%
Carpool
7.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
13.9%
Other
0.9%
Based on 39,111 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 Mansfield. 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 Mansfield 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 Mansfield sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mansfield 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.