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SheetTX-ROCKPORT-TX · Rockport, TX 10,449 pop · income 40th pct · 11 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 Rockport
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Rockport on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Sweetwater · lowest
45,720
Sweetwater · lowest
45,720 median HH income
25.0% of the leader · rank #1
Rockport · this city
63,303
Rockport · this city
63,303 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #2
Granville · near
63,304
Granville · near
63,304 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #3
West Wyoming · near
63,304
West Wyoming · near
63,304 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #4
Conway · near
63,307
Conway · near
63,307 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #5
Chowchilla · near
63,308
Chowchilla · near
63,308 median HH income
34.6% of the leader · rank #6
Scaggsville · highest
183,125
Scaggsville · highest
183,125 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 Rockport 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: 10,449.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Rockport - the verdict
Nationally, Rockport sits in the 40th percentile for household income and the 32nd percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
40th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
32nd
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: Rockport, TX
10,449 people live in Rockport, Texas - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $63,303 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 9.2%. Typical homes in Rockport are valued around $288,600, and the median resident age is 50.3 years. Educational attainment runs 37.4% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 46.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 134 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 34% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2017.9 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 72.4°F with 36.4 inches of precipitation per year and 0.3 inches of snowfall.
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. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Rockport'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 within-city variation to schools and households to climate and hazard context to housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Rockport, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, commute-mode shares, annual population history, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
Is Rockport growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,207 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +11.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 134 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.
PlainCities matches 11 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.
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 3 public schools within the city match. 37.4% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Rockport?
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 Bastrop (10,484 residents, $70,625 income); Sweetwater (10,484 residents, $45,720 income); Galena Park (10,527 residents, $54,167 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Garrison, MD (10,449 residents); Vermilion, OH (10,451 residents); Waverly, IA (10,446 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.
Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Rockport?
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 72.4°F, with 36.4 inches of precipitation and 0.3 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.
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.0
Annual precipitation
36.4 in
Mean temperature
72.4°F
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
How far does income reach against housing in Rockport?
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. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 9.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
4.6×
Home value
$288,600
Household income
$63,303
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Rockport?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2017.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 12% 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
2017.9
Violent rate
258.9
Property rate
1758.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Rockport?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 70.9%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
70.9%
Work from home
20.1%
Public transit
0.0%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 4,199 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 9.2% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Rockport, TX
47/100
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
37.4%
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.
Poverty rate D
9.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$63,303
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
259 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Rockport profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 71/100 (B) · 37.4%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 43/100 (D) · 9.2%
Household income: 39/100 (F) · $63,303
Violent crime: 39/100 (F) · 259 /100k
Where Rockport sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Rockport'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 - Rockport highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Rockport, TX (this city): home $288,600, crime 2,018/100k
Vermilion, OH : home $172,000, crime 606/100k
Waverly, IA : home $215,200, crime 1,027/100k
Bastrop, TX : home $308,300, crime 3,665/100k
Sweetwater, TX : home $84,000, crime 1,621/100k
Galena Park, TX : home $116,400, crime 898/100k
Bellmead, TX : home $117,600, crime 3,641/100k
Fairview, TX : home $544,800, crime 999/100k
Bonham, TX : home $183,600, crime 789/100k
How does Rockport compare to other US cities?
Where Rockport sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income40% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety32% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
Zoom in to just Texas and the picture shifts: Rockport ranks #458 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate, a different read than the national percentile above.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Rockport 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 Rockport near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Rockport ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Rockport only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#763 of 1,520
50th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#289 of 1,505
81st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#796 of 1,663
52nd percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#258 of 1,663
84th 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
40th percentile nationally for median household income · 32nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Rockport's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Rockport'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 Rockport's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$288,60037th percentilemore affordable than 37% 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
Rockport's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,101 of 15,516
More affordable than 22% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#2,389 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 4.6×, Rockport sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,101 of 15,516 and #2,389 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$63,303Rockport, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Rockport, 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 Rockport, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)37.4%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)9.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)46.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
10,449
Median Income
$63,303
Median Home Value
$288,600
Median Age
50.3
Poverty Rate
9.2%
Labor force participation
46.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
37.4%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2017.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
258.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1758.9
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
72.4°F
Annual Precipitation
36.4"
Annual Snowfall
0.3"
Schools
Total Schools
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Rockport's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
10,141 residents
2021
10,451 residents
2022
10,724 residents
2023
10,933 residents
2024
11,108 residents
2025
11,348 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
134
housing units authorized
Single-Family
134
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
12.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
203
203
0
$43.4M
2020
131
131
0
$27.2M
2021
163
159
4
$34.7M
2022
124
124
0
$28.8M
2023
119
119
0
$32.9M
2024
134
134
0
$38.5M
Permit volume decreased 34% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
70.9%
Carpool
1.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
2.8%
Work from Home
20.1%
Other
4.6%
Based on 4,199 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 Rockport. 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 Rockport 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 Rockport sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Rockport 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.