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SheetTX-MISSION-TX · Mission, TX 86,234 pop · income 36th 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 Mission
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mission on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pharr · lowest
49,884
Pharr · lowest
49,884 median HH income
32.5% of the leader · rank #1
Madison · near
60,809
Madison · near
60,809 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #2
Mission · this city
60,813
Mission · this city
60,813 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #3
Randolph · near
60,813
Randolph · near
60,813 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #4
Warr Acres · near
60,822
Warr Acres · near
60,822 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #5
Ballplay · near
60,825
Ballplay · near
60,825 median HH income
39.6% of the leader · rank #6
Livermore · highest
153,602
Livermore · highest
153,602 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 Mission 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: 86,234.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Mission - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Mission lands in the 36th percentile for household income and the 51st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
36th
percentile, household income
30th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
51st
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: Mission, TX
Texas's Mission is a small city, with 86,234 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. The typical household in Mission brings in $60,813 a year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 16.1%. Typical homes in Mission are valued around $160,800, and the median resident age is 34.8 years. 29.0% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 52.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 695 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 81% from five years earlier. Mission reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1337.5 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: 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. Workers in Mission report an average commute of 18.9 minutes, with 75.1% driving alone and 9.0% 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 Mission'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 reported crime to work and mobility to population change to schools and households 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 Mission, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
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 can the FBI record say about safety in Mission?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1337.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 41% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Mission?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.1%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.9 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,136 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 695 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mission?
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 Bryan (86,169 residents, $56,861 income); Temple (86,358 residents, $64,945 income); Baytown (84,538 residents, $61,699 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Danbury, CT (86,086 residents); Manteca, CA (86,521 residents); Hawthorne, CA (85,933 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 Mission?
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 55 public schools within the city match. 29.0% 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
16.1%
Bachelor's degree+
29.0%
Matched public schools
55
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Mission?
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 2.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.6×
Home value
$160,800
Household income
$60,813
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 16.1% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Mission, TX
42/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; 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 D
189 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$60,813
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Mission profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 29.0%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 49/100 (D) · 189 /100k
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $60,813
Poverty rate: 21/100 (F) · 16.1%
Where Mission sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Mission'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 - Mission highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Mission, TX (this city): home $160,800, crime 1,338/100k
Danbury, CT : home $381,600, crime 1,519/100k
Manteca, CA : home $561,200, crime 1,816/100k
Hawthorne, CA : home $813,700, crime 3,193/100k
Whittier, CA : home $751,700, crime 2,866/100k
Livermore, CA : home $1,038,600, crime 2,560/100k
Bryan, TX : home $210,600, crime 1,833/100k
Temple, TX : home $220,300, crime 2,679/100k
Baytown, TX : home $187,900, crime 3,241/100k
Longview, TX : home $182,700, crime 2,690/100k
Pharr, TX : home $111,500, crime 1,359/100k
Georgetown, TX : home $398,600, crime 1,361/100k
How does Mission compare to other US cities?
Mission measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income36% higher than other cities
Home value30% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety51% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Texas and the picture shifts: Mission ranks #306 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Mission 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 Mission near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mission ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mission only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#828 of 1,520
46th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#741 of 1,505
51st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#451 of 1,663
73rd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#401 of 1,663
76th 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
36th percentile nationally for median household income · 51st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Mission's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Mission'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 Mission's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$160,800Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Mission's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,734 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#57 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.6×, Mission sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,734 of 15,516 and #57 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
$60,813Mission, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mission, 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 Mission, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
86,234
Median Income
$60,813
Median Home Value
$160,800
Median Age
34.8
Poverty Rate
16.1%
Labor force participation
52.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.0%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1337.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
189.1
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1148.4
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
55
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Mission's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
85,856 residents
2021
86,122 residents
2022
86,750 residents
2023
87,661 residents
2024
88,478 residents
2025
88,992 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
695
housing units authorized
Single-Family
363
detached homes
Multifamily
332
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
8.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
385
377
8
$48.0M
2020
381
381
0
$50.7M
2021
564
536
28
$89.3M
2022
538
372
166
$97.5M
2023
611
407
204
$84.6M
2024
695
363
332
$101.4M
Permit volume increased 81% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.9 minutes
Drive Alone
75.1%
Carpool
12.8%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.1%
Work from Home
9.0%
Other
1.9%
Based on 32,952 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 Mission. 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 Mission 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 Mission sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mission 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.