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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-NEW-BRAUNFELS-TX · New Braunfels, TX 98,700 pop · income 69th pct · 33 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 New Braunfels
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest New Braunfels on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Roanoke · lowest
52,671
Roanoke · lowest
52,671 median HH income
40.8% of the leader · rank #1
Forest Meadows · near
88,250
Forest Meadows · near
88,250 median HH income
68.3% of the leader · rank #2
Carter Springs · near
88,250
Carter Springs · near
88,250 median HH income
68.3% of the leader · rank #3
Dunbar · near
88,250
Dunbar · near
88,250 median HH income
68.3% of the leader · rank #4
New Braunfels · this city
88,257
New Braunfels · this city
88,257 median HH income
68.3% of the leader · rank #5
Mustang · near
88,262
Mustang · near
88,262 median HH income
68.4% of the leader · rank #6
Allen · highest
129,130
Allen · highest
129,130 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 New Braunfels 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: 98,700.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
New Braunfels - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, New Braunfels lands in the 69th percentile for household income and the 48th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
69th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
48th
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: New Braunfels, TX
New Braunfels is a small city in Texas, home to 98,700 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in New Braunfels report a median income of $88,257 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 4.1%. Typical homes in New Braunfels are valued around $315,100, and the median resident age is 36.4 years. About 38.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 65.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 2,438 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 40% from five years earlier. New Braunfels reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1439.9 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts New Braunfels's yearly average temperature at 67.1°F with 33.6 inches of precipitation per year.
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. 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. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 49.0 out of 100 (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of New Braunfels'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 population change to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to climate and hazard context to reported crime to schools and households to within-city variation to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For New Braunfels, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Population change
Is New Braunfels 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 +30,852 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +33.7% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 2,438 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What does the journey to work look like in New Braunfels?
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 73.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for New Braunfels?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are San Angelo (99,507 residents, $64,146 income); Conroe (96,976 residents, $75,245 income); Wichita Falls (102,558 residents, $58,568 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Roanoke, VA (98,677 residents); Vista, CA (98,646 residents); Boca Raton, FL (98,833 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 33 Census tracts reveal inside New Braunfels?
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 33 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in New Braunfels?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 67.1°F, with 33.6 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.
Mean temperature
67.1°F
Annual precipitation
33.6 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.0
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in New Braunfels?
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 1439.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 37% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1283.5
Violent rate
156.4
Total reported rate
1439.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for New Braunfels?
The NCES join finds 29 public schools within the city match. 38.6% 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
29
Bachelor's degree+
38.6%
Poverty estimate
4.1%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in New Braunfels?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.1%, 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
$88,257
Home value
$315,100
Value / income
3.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 4.1% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C+
City profile score · New Braunfels, TX
64/100
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 B
38.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income B-
$88,257
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime C
156 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger 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.
New Braunfels profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 73/100 (B) · 38.6%
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.1%
Household income: 68/100 (B-) · $88,257
Violent crime: 57/100 (C) · 156 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where New Braunfels sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
New Braunfels'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 - New Braunfels highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
New Braunfels, TX (this city): home $315,100, crime 1,440/100k
Roanoke, VA : home $180,500, crime 4,676/100k
Vista, CA : home $674,400, crime 1,180/100k
Boca Raton, FL : home $660,100, crime 1,848/100k
Yuma, AZ : home $209,100, crime 1,671/100k
Longmont, CO : home $541,400, crime 3,088/100k
Kenosha, WI : home $210,500, crime 1,152/100k
San Angelo, TX : home $179,300, crime 2,704/100k
Conroe, TX : home $283,100, crime 1,877/100k
Wichita Falls, TX : home $142,600, crime 2,969/100k
Edinburg, TX : home $174,800, crime 2,027/100k
Allen, TX : home $429,900, crime 985/100k
How does New Braunfels compare to other US cities?
New Braunfels measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income69% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety48% 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, New Braunfels ranks #326 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 New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, New Braunfels ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares New Braunfels only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#351 of 1,520
77th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#239 of 1,505
84th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,198 of 1,663
28th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#243 of 1,663
85th 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
69th percentile nationally for median household income · 48th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
New Braunfels's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
New Braunfels'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 New Braunfels's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$315,10033rd percentilemore affordable than 33% 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
New Braunfels's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,255 of 15,516
More affordable than 40% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#230 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.6×, New Braunfels sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,255 of 15,516 and #230 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
$88,257New Braunfels, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context New Braunfels, 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 New Braunfels, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)38.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)65.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
98,700
Median Income
$88,257
Median Home Value
$315,100
Median Age
36.4
Poverty Rate
4.1%
Labor force participation
65.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
38.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1439.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
156.4
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1283.5
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
67.1°F
Annual Precipitation
33.6"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
29
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
New Braunfels's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
91,640 residents
2021
99,075 residents
2022
104,777 residents
2023
111,132 residents
2024
116,523 residents
2025
122,492 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
2,438
housing units authorized
Single-Family
1,271
detached homes
Multifamily
1,167
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
24.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,737
1,549
188
$388.2M
2020
2,783
1,983
800
$555.4M
2021
2,388
1,787
601
$498.6M
2022
2,667
832
1,835
$442.0M
2023
2,095
689
1,406
$379.4M
2024
2,438
1,271
1,167
$530.3M
Permit volume increased 40% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.7%
Carpool
9.6%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
0.9%
Work from Home
14.4%
Other
1.3%
Based on 50,750 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 New Braunfels. 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 New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How New Braunfels 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.