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SheetTX-PITTSBURG-TX · Pittsburg, TX 4,401 pop · income 17th pct · 3 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 Pittsburg
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Pittsburg on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Falfurrias · lowest
38,696
Falfurrias · lowest
38,696 median HH income
15.5% of the leader · rank #1
Blacksburg · near
48,070
Blacksburg · near
48,070 median HH income
19.2% of the leader · rank #2
Woodville Far… · near
48,077
Woodville Far… · near
48,077 median HH income
19.2% of the leader · rank #3
Pittsburg · this city
48,081
Pittsburg · this city
48,081 median HH income
19.2% of the leader · rank #4
Roanoke · near
48,083
Roanoke · near
48,083 median HH income
19.2% of the leader · rank #5
Selmer · near
48,092
Selmer · near
48,092 median HH income
19.2% of the leader · rank #6
Hunters Creek · highest
250,001
Hunters Creek · highest
250,001 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 Pittsburg 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: 4,401.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Pittsburg - the verdict
Pittsburg ranks in the 17th percentile for household income and the 55th percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
17th
percentile, household income
21st
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
55th
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: Pittsburg, TX
Texas's Pittsburg is a small town, with 4,401 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Median household income here is $48,081 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 26.7%. Pittsburg's housing stock carries a median value of $130,600, and the median resident age is 32.9 years. About 12.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 56.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 32 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 256% from five years earlier. Pittsburg reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 1222.2 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: 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. 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 Pittsburg'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 reported crime to schools and households to within-city variation to comparison shortlist to population change; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Pittsburg, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Pittsburg?
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 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 26.7%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Pittsburg?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 87.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Pittsburg?
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 Palacios (4,394 residents, $60,613 income); Canton (4,411 residents, $48,858 income); Denver City (4,388 residents, $84,333 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Crescent Springs, KY (4,402 residents); Farley, KY (4,402 residents); Roseburg North, OR (4,400 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Pittsburg?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1222.2 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 46% 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.
Total reported rate
1222.2
Violent rate
458.3
Property rate
763.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Pittsburg?
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 5 public schools within the city match. 12.5% 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
26.7%
Bachelor's degree+
12.5%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Is Pittsburg growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +357 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 32 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.
2020 estimate
4,319
2025 estimate
4,676
Period change
+8.3%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
Low income · poverty 26.7% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Pittsburg, TX
22/100
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.
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 F
458 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$48,081
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
12.5%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
26.7%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Pittsburg profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 458 /100k
Household income: 18/100 (F) · $48,081
Bachelor's+ share: 13/100 (F) · 12.5%
Poverty rate: 4/100 (F) · 26.7%
Where Pittsburg sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Pittsburg'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 - Pittsburg highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Pittsburg, TX (this city): home $130,600, crime 1,222/100k
Glassport, PA : home $82,400, crime 1,789/100k
Greenfield, CA : home $285,500, crime 1,432/100k
Palacios, TX : home $153,000, crime 1,512/100k
Canton, TX : home $189,200, crime 1,692/100k
Denver City, TX : home $184,000, crime 776/100k
Devine, TX : home $145,600, crime 1,608/100k
Falfurrias, TX : home $78,500, crime 893/100k
How does Pittsburg compare to other US cities?
Pittsburg measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income17% higher than other cities
Home value21% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety55% 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, Pittsburg ranks #284 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Pittsburg ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Pittsburg only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,179 of 1,520
22nd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#911 of 1,505
39th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#162 of 1,663
90th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,115 of 1,663
33rd 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
17th percentile nationally for median household income · 55th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Pittsburg's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Pittsburg'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 Pittsburg's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$130,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 79% 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
Pittsburg's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#5,110 of 15,516
More affordable than 67% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,477 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Pittsburg sits in the affordable band:
national rank #5,110 of 15,516 and #4,477 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
$48,081Pittsburg, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Pittsburg, 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 Pittsburg, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)12.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)26.7%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)56.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
4,401
Median Income
$48,081
Median Home Value
$130,600
Median Age
32.9
Poverty Rate
26.7%
Labor force participation
56.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
12.5%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1222.2
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
458.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
763.9
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
5
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Pittsburg's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
4,319 residents
2021
4,387 residents
2022
4,419 residents
2023
4,530 residents
2024
4,580 residents
2025
4,676 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
32
housing units authorized
Single-Family
28
detached homes
Multifamily
4
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
9
7
2
$1.1M
2020
10
10
0
$2.3M
2021
4
4
0
$0.9M
2022
8
8
0
$2.0M
2023
1
1
0
$0.3M
2024
32
28
4
$9.0M
Permit volume increased 256% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
87.5%
Carpool
12.3%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.3%
Work from Home
0.0%
Based on 1,755 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 Pittsburg. 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Pittsburg 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.