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SheetTX-ROUND-ROCK-TX · Round Rock, TX 124,288 pop · income 76th pct · 135 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 Round Rock
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Round Rock on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
College Stati… · lowest
51,776
College Stati… · lowest
51,776 median HH income
36.6% of the leader · rank #1
Pleasant Hills · near
97,177
Pleasant Hills · near
97,177 median HH income
68.7% of the leader · rank #2
Round Rock · this city
97,187
Round Rock · this city
97,187 median HH income
68.8% of the leader · rank #3
Neapolis · near
97,188
Neapolis · near
97,188 median HH income
68.8% of the leader · rank #4
Colton · near
97,188
Colton · near
97,188 median HH income
68.8% of the leader · rank #5
Moxee · near
97,194
Moxee · near
97,194 median HH income
68.8% of the leader · rank #6
The Woodlands · highest
141,353
The Woodlands · highest
141,353 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 Round Rock 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: 124,288.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Round Rock - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Round Rock places in the 76th percentile for household income and the 31st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
76th
percentile, household income
76th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
31st
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: Round Rock, TX
Texas's Round Rock is a mid-sized U.S. city, with 124,288 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Round Rock report a median income of $97,187 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.2%. Typical homes in Round Rock are valued around $383,700, and the median resident age is 36.2 years. Educational attainment runs 43.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 69.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 1,937 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 92% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 2071.4 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, near the national average (agency reporting is voluntary, so this measures reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
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). Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $1,149 monthly. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). Commute times here average 18.8 minutes, with 65.5% driving alone and 23.1% working from home, per Census ACS commuting 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 Round Rock'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to reported crime to population change to within-city variation to housing and income to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Round Rock, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, local building permits, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Round Rock?
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 Pearland (125,983 residents, $112,470 income); College Station (122,280 residents, $51,776 income); Abilene (127,130 residents, $62,720 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Concord, CA (124,260 residents); Vallejo, CA (124,637 residents); Meridian, ID (124,865 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Round Rock?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 65.5%. The reported mean trip to work is 18.8 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. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Round Rock?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2071.4 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 9% 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.
What can 135 Census tracts reveal inside Round Rock?
PlainCities matches 135 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.
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.
Population change
Is Round Rock growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +20,726 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +17.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 1,937 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
120,556
2025 estimate
141,282
Period change
+17.2%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Round Rock?
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 3.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.2%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.9×
Home value
$383,700
Household income
$97,187
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the education layer cover for Round Rock?
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 41 public schools within the city match. 43.6% 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
5.2%
Bachelor's degree+
43.6%
Matched public schools
41
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.
Bachelor's+ share B+
43.6%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income B+
$97,187
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Violent crime C+
131 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
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.
Round Rock profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 78/100 (B+) · 43.6%
Household income: 76/100 (B+) · $97,187
Poverty rate: 64/100 (C+) · 5.2%
Violent crime: 63/100 (C+) · 131 /100k
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Round Rock sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Round Rock'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 - Round Rock highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Round Rock, TX (this city): home $383,700, crime 2,071/100k
Concord, CA : home $755,900, crime 3,371/100k
Vallejo, CA : home $557,500, crime 4,730/100k
Meridian, ID : home $485,000, crime 718/100k
Palm Bay, FL : home $248,000, crime 1,365/100k
Allentown, PA : home $188,900, crime 1,841/100k
Thousand Oaks, CA : home $951,200, crime 1,123/100k
Pearland, TX : home $330,900, crime 1,536/100k
College Station, TX : home $326,500, crime 1,273/100k
Abilene, TX : home $178,900, crime 2,188/100k
Lewisville, TX : home $350,200, crime 1,705/100k
Richardson, TX : home $405,600, crime 1,980/100k
How does Round Rock compare to other US cities?
Where Round Rock sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income76% higher than other cities
Home value76% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety31% 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, Round Rock ranks #467 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 Round Rock 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 Round Rock near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Round Rock ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Round Rock only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#259 of 1,520
83rd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#151 of 1,505
90th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,098 of 1,663
34th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#182 of 1,663
89th 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
76th percentile nationally for median household income · 31st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Round Rock's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Round Rock'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 Round Rock's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$383,70024th percentilemore affordable than 24% 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
Round Rock's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#10,547 of 15,516
More affordable than 32% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#301 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.9×, Round Rock sits in the moderate band:
national rank #10,547 of 15,516 and #301 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
$97,187Round Rock, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Round Rock, 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 Round Rock, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)43.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)69.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
124,288
Median Income
$97,187
Median Home Value
$383,700
Median Age
36.2
Poverty Rate
5.2%
Labor force participation
69.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
43.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2071.4
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
130.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1940.7
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
41
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Round Rock's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
120,556 residents
2021
124,130 residents
2022
127,340 residents
2023
131,315 residents
2024
135,621 residents
2025
141,282 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
1,937
housing units authorized
Single-Family
902
detached homes
Multifamily
1,035
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
15.6
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
1,010
654
356
$215.4M
2020
1,105
451
654
$206.7M
2021
1,931
816
1,115
$401.4M
2022
1,457
815
642
$303.1M
2023
1,334
1,063
271
$186.2M
2024
1,937
902
1,035
$466.7M
Permit volume increased 92% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
18.8 minutes
Drive Alone
65.5%
Carpool
9.1%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
23.1%
Other
1.0%
Based on 67,077 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 Round Rock. 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 Round Rock 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 Round Rock sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Round Rock 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.