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SheetTX-PFLUGERVILLE-TX · Pflugerville, TX 65,162 pop · income 84th 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 Pflugerville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pflugerville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lorain · lowest
45,799
Lorain · lowest
45,799 median HH income
32.7% of the leader · rank #1
Stoneham · near
112,635
Stoneham · near
112,635 median HH income
80.4% of the leader · rank #2
Pflugerville · this city
112,656
Pflugerville · this city
112,656 median HH income
80.4% of the leader · rank #3
Urbana · near
112,672
Urbana · near
112,672 median HH income
80.4% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Fenton · near
112,676
Lake Fenton · near
112,676 median HH income
80.4% of the leader · rank #5
Manchester · near
112,679
Manchester · near
112,679 median HH income
80.4% of the leader · rank #6
Leander · highest
140,180
Leander · highest
140,180 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 Pflugerville 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: 65,162.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pflugerville - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Pflugerville places in the 84th percentile for household income and the 37th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
84th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
37th
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: Pflugerville, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 65,162 residents in Pflugerville, a small city within Texas. Pflugerville households earn a median of $112,656 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 3.3%. Pflugerville's housing stock carries a median value of $354,900, and the median resident age is 37.2 years. Educational attainment runs 41.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 71.7% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 856 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Stable), down 1% from five years earlier. Pflugerville reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1808.6 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. 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. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Pflugerville'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 population change to housing and income 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 Pflugerville, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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.
1. Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pflugerville?
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 1808.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 21% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Is Pflugerville 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 +2,830 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +4.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 856 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Pflugerville?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 3.3%, 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pflugerville?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Victoria (65,514 residents, $68,233 income); Rowlett (64,139 residents, $113,600 income); Spring (67,103 residents, $86,888 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Lorain, OH (65,207 residents); Kenner, LA (65,113 residents); Lynwood, CA (65,291 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 Pflugerville?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 67.8%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.4%
Work from home
22.2%
Drive alone
67.8%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 36,603 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Pflugerville?
The NCES join finds 28 public schools within the city match. 41.2% 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+
41.2%
Poverty estimate
3.3%
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-
$112,656
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B+
3.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.2%
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
195 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Pflugerville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $112,656
Poverty rate: 76/100 (B+) · 3.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.2%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 48/100 (D) · 195 /100k
Where Pflugerville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pflugerville'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 - Pflugerville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Pflugerville, TX (this city): home $354,900, crime 1,809/100k
Lorain, OH : home $123,500, crime 2,132/100k
Kenner, LA : home $241,800, crime 3,178/100k
Lynwood, CA : home $569,400, crime 4,118/100k
Cheyenne, WY : home $311,200, crime 3,317/100k
Victoria, TX : home $193,200, crime 2,283/100k
Rowlett, TX : home $342,400, crime 1,457/100k
Leander, TX : home $470,700, crime 1,058/100k
San Marcos, TX : home $269,700, crime 2,617/100k
Euless, TX : home $294,500, crime 2,293/100k
How does Pflugerville compare to other US cities?
Where Pflugerville sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income84% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety37% 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, Pflugerville ranks #419 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 Pflugerville 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 Pflugerville near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pflugerville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pflugerville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#176 of 1,520
88th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#186 of 1,505
88th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,249 of 1,663
25th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#207 of 1,663
87th 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
84th percentile nationally for median household income · 37th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pflugerville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pflugerville'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 Pflugerville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$354,90028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Pflugerville's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,438 of 15,516
More affordable than 52% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#138 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.2×, Pflugerville sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,438 of 15,516 and #138 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
$112,656Pflugerville, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pflugerville, 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 Pflugerville, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)3.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.7%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
65,162
Median Income
$112,656
Median Home Value
$354,900
Median Age
37.2
Poverty Rate
3.3%
Labor force participation
71.7%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1808.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
194.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1614.0
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
Pflugerville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
65,486 residents
2021
66,491 residents
2022
66,015 residents
2023
66,143 residents
2024
67,285 residents
2025
68,316 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
856
housing units authorized
Single-Family
205
detached homes
Multifamily
651
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
13.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
867
867
0
$218.6M
2020
1,333
725
608
$194.5M
2021
503
433
70
$110.5M
2022
773
330
443
$144.4M
2023
1,021
333
688
$176.3M
2024
856
205
651
$164.2M
Permit volume decreased 1% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
67.8%
Carpool
7.7%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
0.5%
Work from Home
22.2%
Other
1.4%
Based on 36,603 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 Pflugerville. 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 Pflugerville 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 Pflugerville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pflugerville 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.