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SheetTX-RAYMONDVILLE-TX · Raymondville, TX 10,243 pop · income 10th pct · 6 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 Raymondville
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Raymondville on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Robstown · lowest
39,124
Robstown · lowest
39,124 median HH income
18.1% of the leader · rank #1
Onycha · near
42,143
Onycha · near
42,143 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #2
Sultana · near
42,143
Sultana · near
42,143 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #3
Oxford · near
42,147
Oxford · near
42,147 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #4
Raymondville · this city
42,148
Raymondville · this city
42,148 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #5
Pawnee · near
42,148
Pawnee · near
42,148 median HH income
19.5% of the leader · rank #6
Heath · highest
216,160
Heath · highest
216,160 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 Raymondville 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: 10,243.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Raymondville - the verdict
Nationally, Raymondville sits in the 10th percentile for household income and the 17th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
10th
percentile, household income
0th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
17th
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: Raymondville, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 10,243 residents in Raymondville, a small town within Texas. Households in Raymondville report a median income of $42,148 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 22.3%. Typical homes in Raymondville are valued around $48,200, and the median resident age is 32.0 years. About 8.1% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 49.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 6 residential building permits were authorized in Raymondville (Rapid Growth), up 20% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Raymondville's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2851.5 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 74.4°F with 25.5 inches of precipitation per year and 0.2 inches of snowfall.
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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). Workers in Raymondville report an average commute of 14.9 minutes, with 82.0% driving alone and 7.7% working from home. 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 Raymondville'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 climate and hazard context to housing and income to within-city variation to schools and households to comparison shortlist to reported crime to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Raymondville, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Raymondville growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -109 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -1.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 6 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 downward. A falling count can reflect migration, household size, annexation boundaries, or estimation noise, so it is a prompt to inspect the full series rather than a claim about local economic health.
What physical conditions frame life in Raymondville?
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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 74.4°F, with 25.5 inches of precipitation and 0.2 inches of annual snowfall. 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.
What can 6 Census tracts reveal inside Raymondville?
PlainCities matches 6 Census tracts to this city.
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 Raymondville?
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 Robstown (10,222 residents, $39,124 income); Heath (10,218 residents, $216,160 income); San Elizario (10,123 residents, $47,946 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Waimea CDP (Hawaii County), HI (10,242 residents); Oneida, NY (10,240 residents); Atoka, TN (10,237 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.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Raymondville?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 1.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 22.3%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
1.1×
Home value
$48,200
Household income
$42,148
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Raymondville?
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. 8.1% 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
22.3%
Bachelor's degree+
8.1%
Matched public schools
5
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Raymondville?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2851.5 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 25% higher 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
2851.5
Violent rate
881.2
Property rate
1970.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Raymondville?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 82.0%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.9 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.
Drive alone
82.0%
Work from home
7.7%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 3,876 workers age 16+.
Lowest-decile income · poverty 22.3% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Raymondville, TX
15/100
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.
Household income F
$42,148
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
22.3%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share F
8.1%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
881 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Raymondville profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 10/100 (F) · $42,148
Poverty rate: 9/100 (F) · 22.3%
Bachelor's+ share: 1/100 (F) · 8.1%
Violent crime: 0/100 (F) · 881 /100k
Where Raymondville sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Raymondville'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 - Raymondville highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Raymondville, TX (this city): home $48,200, crime 2,852/100k
Oneida, NY : home $146,300, crime 3,872/100k
Atoka, TN : home $283,500, crime 696/100k
Kennett, MO : home $103,600, crime 4,552/100k
Franklin, KY : home $170,400, crime 1,023/100k
Robstown, TX : home $89,500, crime 3,048/100k
Heath, TX : home $681,500, crime 543/100k
Rockport, TX : home $288,600, crime 2,018/100k
Bastrop, TX : home $308,300, crime 3,665/100k
Sweetwater, TX : home $84,000, crime 1,621/100k
How does Raymondville compare to other US cities?
Raymondville measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income10% higher than other cities
Home value0% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety17% 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, Raymondville ranks #549 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 Raymondville 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 Raymondville near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Raymondville ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Raymondville only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,318 of 1,520
13th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#1,468 of 1,505
2nd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#263 of 1,663
84th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#1,351 of 1,663
19th 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
10th percentile nationally for median household income · 17th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Raymondville's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Raymondville'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 Raymondville's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$48,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 100% 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
Raymondville's home-value-to-income ratio: 1.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#84 of 15,516
More affordable than 99% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 1.1×, Raymondville sits in the affordable band:
national rank #84 of 15,516 and #1 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$42,148Raymondville, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Raymondville, 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 Raymondville, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)8.1%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)22.3%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)49.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,243
Median Income
$42,148
Median Home Value
$48,200
Median Age
32.0
Poverty Rate
22.3%
Labor force participation
49.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
8.1%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2851.5
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
881.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1970.3
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
74.4°F
Annual Precipitation
25.5"
Annual Snowfall
0.2"
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
Raymondville's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,191 residents
2021
10,224 residents
2022
10,218 residents
2023
10,130 residents
2024
10,135 residents
2025
10,082 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
6
housing units authorized
Single-Family
6
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
0.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
5
5
0
$1.0M
2020
8
8
0
$1.9M
2021
9
9
0
$2.0M
2022
13
13
0
$1.3M
2023
6
6
0
$12.0M
2024
6
6
0
$1.3M
Permit volume increased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.9 minutes
Drive Alone
82.0%
Carpool
7.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.7%
Work from Home
7.7%
Based on 3,876 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 Raymondville. 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 Raymondville 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 Raymondville sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Raymondville 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.