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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-SANTA-FE-TX · Santa Fe, TX 12,828 pop · income 75th 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 Santa Fe
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Santa Fe on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Forrest City · lowest
33,522
Forrest City · lowest
33,522 median HH income
16.7% of the leader · rank #1
Indian Springs · near
95,809
Indian Springs · near
95,809 median HH income
47.9% of the leader · rank #2
Beaver Creek · near
95,813
Beaver Creek · near
95,813 median HH income
47.9% of the leader · rank #3
Santa Fe · this city
95,815
Santa Fe · this city
95,815 median HH income
47.9% of the leader · rank #4
Burbank · near
95,816
Burbank · near
95,816 median HH income
47.9% of the leader · rank #5
American Fork · near
95,823
American Fork · near
95,823 median HH income
47.9% of the leader · rank #6
Lantana · highest
200,147
Lantana · highest
200,147 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 Santa Fe 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: 12,828.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Santa Fe - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Santa Fe lands in the 75th percentile for household income and the 71st percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
75th
percentile, household income
63rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
71st
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: Santa Fe, TX
Santa Fe is a small town in Texas, home to 12,828 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. The typical household in Santa Fe brings in $95,815 a year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.5%. Typical homes in Santa Fe are valued around $290,200, and the median resident age is 44.0 years. About 16.9% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 54.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 364 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 550% from five years earlier. Santa Fe reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 819.6 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: 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). 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 Santa Fe'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 population change to reported crime to work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Santa Fe, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
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.
Question 1
What does the education layer cover for Santa Fe?
The NCES join finds 9 public schools within the city match. 16.9% 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.
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.
Is Santa Fe growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,180 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +9.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 364 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Santa Fe?
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.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 819.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 64% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Santa Fe?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Manvel (12,873 residents, $113,938 income); Robinson (12,668 residents, $95,579 income); Athens (13,013 residents, $70,601 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Stony Brook, NY (12,827 residents); Forrest City, AR (12,826 residents); Cheney, WA (12,830 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.
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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Santa Fe?
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.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 81.7%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.7%
Work from home
7.6%
Drive alone
81.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 5,576 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Santa Fe?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.0 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.5%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Household income
$95,815
Home value
$290,200
Value / income
3.0×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Above median income · poverty 5.5% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C+
City profile score · Santa Fe, TX
61/100
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.
Household income B+
$95,815
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime B+
84 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate C+
5.5%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better 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.
Bachelor's+ share F
16.9%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Santa Fe profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 75/100 (B+) · $95,815
Violent crime: 75/100 (B+) · 84 /100k
Poverty rate: 62/100 (C+) · 5.5%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 25/100 (F) · 16.9%
Where Santa Fe sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Santa Fe'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 - Santa Fe highlighted among 10 peers.Read the chart values
Santa Fe, TX (this city): home $290,200, crime 820/100k
Forrest City, AR : home $87,800, crime 4,030/100k
Cheney, WA : home $330,300, crime 2,042/100k
West Monroe, LA : home $174,400, crime 7,042/100k
Solana Beach, CA : home $1,934,700, crime 1,271/100k
Manvel, TX : home $321,600, crime 1,168/100k
Robinson, TX : home $269,000, crime 623/100k
Athens, TX : home $205,700, crime 1,830/100k
Tomball, TX : home $306,400, crime 2,237/100k
Levelland, TX : home $126,200, crime 1,368/100k
How does Santa Fe compare to other US cities?
Where Santa Fe sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income75% higher than other cities
Home value63% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety71% 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: Santa Fe ranks #186 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 Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Santa Fe ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Santa Fe only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#274 of 1,520
82nd percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#285 of 1,505
81st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,071 of 1,663
35th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#832 of 1,663
49th 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
75th percentile nationally for median household income · 71st percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Santa Fe's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Santa Fe'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 Santa Fe's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$290,20037th 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
Santa Fe's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.0×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#6,852 of 15,516
More affordable than 56% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#952 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.0×, Santa Fe sits in the moderate band:
national rank #6,852 of 15,516 and #952 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
$95,815Santa Fe, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Santa Fe, 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 Santa Fe, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)16.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.5%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)54.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
12,828
Median Income
$95,815
Median Home Value
$290,200
Median Age
44.0
Poverty Rate
5.5%
Labor force participation
54.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
16.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
819.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
84.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
735.4
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
9
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Santa Fe's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
12,733 residents
2021
12,782 residents
2022
12,851 residents
2023
12,993 residents
2024
13,121 residents
2025
13,913 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
364
housing units authorized
Single-Family
364
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
28.4
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
56
56
0
$13.3M
2020
62
62
0
$14.5M
2021
70
70
0
$16.4M
2022
63
63
0
$14.7M
2023
58
58
0
$13.6M
2024
364
364
0
$102.3M
Permit volume increased 550% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
81.7%
Carpool
5.2%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
7.6%
Other
3.8%
Based on 5,576 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 Santa Fe. 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 Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Santa Fe 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.