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SheetTX-PINEWOOD-ESTATES-TX · Pinewood Estates, TX 1,374 pop · income 85th 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 Pinewood Estates
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pinewood Estates on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Elmo · lowest
36,923
Elmo · lowest
36,923 median HH income
15.6% of the leader · rank #1
Charlestown · near
113,281
Charlestown · near
113,281 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #2
Pinewood Esta… · this city
113,289
Pinewood Esta… · this city
113,289 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #3
Marietta · near
113,295
Marietta · near
113,295 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #4
Green Meadows · near
113,295
Green Meadows · near
113,295 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #5
Summerlin Sou… · near
113,301
Summerlin Sou… · near
113,301 median HH income
47.8% of the leader · rank #6
Rollingwood · highest
236,964
Rollingwood · highest
236,964 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
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Pinewood Estates on ACS population and median household income
. 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: 1,374.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Pinewood Estates lands in the 85th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
85th
percentile, household income
67th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
📝 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: Pinewood Estates, TX
Pinewood Estates is a small town in Texas, home to 1,374 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Pinewood Estates brings in $113,289 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Home values in Pinewood Estates run a median of $317,700, and the median resident age is 36.7 years. Educational attainment runs 42.2% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. 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 Pinewood Estates'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pinewood Estates, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for matched public-school count, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
How far does income reach against housing in Pinewood Estates?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Pinewood Estates?
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 84.0%. 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 Pinewood Estates?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Coldspring (1,372 residents, $41,196 income); Elmo (1,377 residents, $36,923 income); Rollingwood (1,371 residents, $236,964 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Westhaven-Moonstone, CA (1,374 residents); Russiaville, IN (1,374 residents); Queen Anne, MD (1,374 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.
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income A-
$113,289
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B+
42.2%
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 N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Pinewood Estates profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $113,289
Bachelor's+ share: 77/100 (B+) · 42.2%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
How does Pinewood Estates compare to other US cities?
Pinewood Estates measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value67% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Pinewood Estates 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 Pinewood Estates near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pinewood Estates ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pinewood Estates only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#173 of 1,520
89th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#234 of 1,505
84th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,440 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#197 of 1,663
88th 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Pinewood Estates's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$317,70033rd 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
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,615 of 15,516
More affordable than 64% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,868 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.8×, Pinewood Estates sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,615 of 15,516 and #4,868 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$113,289Pinewood Estates, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pinewood Estates, 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 Pinewood Estates, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)42.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
1,374
Median Income
$113,289
Median Home Value
$317,700
Median Age
36.7
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
69.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
42.2%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
84.0%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
6.2%
Based on 611 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 Pinewood Estates. 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 Pinewood Estates 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 Pinewood Estates sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pinewood Estates 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, 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.