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SheetTX-ROYSE-CITY-TX · Royse City, TX 17,357 pop · income 86th 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 Royse City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Royse City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
New Castle · lowest
48,977
New Castle · lowest
48,977 median HH income
20.7% of the leader · rank #1
Esko · near
116,406
Esko · near
116,406 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #2
Tara Hills · near
116,415
Tara Hills · near
116,415 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #3
Royse City · this city
116,424
Royse City · this city
116,424 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #4
High Bridge · near
116,424
High Bridge · near
116,424 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #5
Leonia · near
116,429
Leonia · near
116,429 median HH income
49.3% of the leader · rank #6
Bellaire · highest
236,311
Bellaire · highest
236,311 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 Royse City 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: 17,357.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Royse City - the verdict
Nationally, Royse City sits in the 86th percentile for household income and the 64th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
86th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
64th
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: Royse City, TX
17,357 people live in Royse City, Texas - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $116,424 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.6%. Home values in Royse City run a median of $288,400, and the median resident age is 33.3 years. 29.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 71.6% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 693 residential building permits were authorized in Royse City (Building Boom), up 185% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Royse City reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 1001.7 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not 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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Royse City'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 schools and households to work and mobility to reported crime to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Royse City, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Royse City?
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 12 public schools within the city match. 29.2% 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Royse City?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 73.7%. 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Royse City?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1001.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 56% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Royse City?
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 Stafford (17,279 residents, $85,910 income); Melissa (17,497 residents, $137,875 income); Glenn Heights (17,175 residents, $79,739 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are New Castle, IN (17,356 residents); Firestone, CO (17,353 residents); Coalinga, CA (17,352 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.
Population change
Is Royse City growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +14,527 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +105.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 693 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
13,780
2025 estimate
28,307
Period change
+105.4%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Royse City?
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 2.5 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.6%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.5×
Home value
$288,400
Household income
$116,424
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
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.
Household income A-
$116,424
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B
103 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate B-
4.6%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
29.2%
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.
Royse City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 84/100 (A-) · $116,424
Violent crime: 70/100 (B) · 103 /100k
Poverty rate: 68/100 (B-) · 4.6%
Bachelor's+ share: 57/100 (C) · 29.2%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Royse City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Royse City'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 - Royse City highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Royse City, TX (this city): home $288,400, crime 1,002/100k
New Castle, IN : home $95,100, crime 809/100k
Firestone, CO : home $511,800, crime 1,105/100k
Coalinga, CA : home $254,600, crime 902/100k
Laguna Woods, CA : home $364,900, crime 953/100k
Rancho Mirage, CA : home $747,800, crime 2,581/100k
Stafford, TX : home $247,900, crime 3,521/100k
Melissa, TX : home $430,300, crime 377/100k
Glenn Heights, TX : home $252,200, crime 1,079/100k
Addison, TX : home $466,000, crime 5,862/100k
Bellaire, TX : home $978,300, crime 2,612/100k
Gainesville, TX : home $162,900, crime 1,788/100k
How does Royse City compare to other US cities?
Where Royse City sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income86% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety64% 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, Royse City ranks #231 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 Royse City 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 Royse City near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Royse City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Royse City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#152 of 1,520
90th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#290 of 1,505
81st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,153 of 1,663
30th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#397 of 1,663
76th 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
86th percentile nationally for median household income · 64th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Royse City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Royse City'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 Royse City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$288,40037th 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
Royse City's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.5×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#3,886 of 15,516
More affordable than 75% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#344 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.5×, Royse City sits in the affordable band:
national rank #3,886 of 15,516 and #344 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
$116,424Royse City, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Royse City, 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 Royse City, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)29.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.6%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)71.6%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
17,357
Median Income
$116,424
Median Home Value
$288,400
Median Age
33.3
Poverty Rate
4.6%
Labor force participation
71.6%
Bachelor's Degree+
29.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1001.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
102.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
898.8
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
12
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Royse City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
13,780 residents
2021
16,058 residents
2022
19,837 residents
2023
24,229 residents
2024
26,399 residents
2025
28,307 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
693
housing units authorized
Single-Family
693
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
39.9
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
243
243
0
$60.8M
2020
785
785
0
$215.4M
2021
1,370
1,370
0
$366.8M
2022
1,443
1,443
0
$427.5M
2023
703
703
0
$230.7M
2024
693
693
0
$199.3M
Permit volume increased 185% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
73.7%
Carpool
9.6%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.8%
Work from Home
15.5%
Based on 9,163 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 Royse City. 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 Royse City 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 Royse City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Royse City 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.