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SheetTX-TEXARKANA-TX · Texarkana, TX 36,039 pop · income 18th pct · 26 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 Texarkana
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Texarkana on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Mount Bethel · lowest
49,231
Mount Bethel · lowest
49,231 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #1
Texarkana · this city
49,240
Texarkana · this city
49,240 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #2
Arlington · near
49,241
Arlington · near
49,241 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #3
Eclectic · near
49,250
Eclectic · near
49,250 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #4
Inman · near
49,250
Inman · near
49,250 median HH income
28.7% of the leader · rank #5
Olney · highest
171,766
Olney · highest
171,766 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #6
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 Texarkana 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: 36,039.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Texarkana - the verdict
Nationally, Texarkana sits in the 18th 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.
18th
percentile, household income
30th
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: Texarkana, TX
Texas's Texarkana is a small city, with 36,039 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Texarkana report a median income of $49,240 per year, in the lower quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 16.8%. Home values in Texarkana run a median of $159,700, and the median resident age is 37.3 years. About 24.3% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 52.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 109 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Building Boom), up 195% from five years earlier. Texarkana's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2892.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA puts Texarkana's yearly average temperature at 64.0°F with 52.4 inches of precipitation per year and 2.1 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. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. The average commute for Texarkana workers runs 14.8 minutes, with 82.7% driving alone and 7.8% working from home. 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 Texarkana'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 climate and hazard context to population change to reported crime to housing and income to work and mobility to within-city variation to schools and households to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Texarkana, city-specific coverage includes matched public-school count, commute-mode shares, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What physical conditions frame life in Texarkana?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 64.0°F, with 52.4 inches of precipitation and 2.1 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.
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.
Is Texarkana growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
The recent population line is broadly flat. That makes the composition of change more important than the headline count: housing turnover, household size, and age structure can shift even when the total barely moves.
Census PEP estimates show the population declined by -19 residents from 2020 to 2025, a -0.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 109 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 26 Census tracts reveal inside Texarkana?
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.
PlainCities matches 26 Census tracts to this city.
Which cities make useful reference points for Texarkana?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are La Porte (36,077 residents, $81,801 income); Socorro (36,237 residents, $52,100 income); Farmers Branch (36,254 residents, $87,702 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are North Ridgeville, OH (36,043 residents); Dunedin, FL (36,060 residents); Olney, MD (36,000 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Texarkana?
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 2892.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 27% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
2504.1
Violent rate
387.8
Total reported rate
2892.0
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
How far does income reach against housing in Texarkana?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 16.8%, 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
$49,240
Home value
$159,700
Value / income
3.2×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What does the journey to work look like in Texarkana?
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 82.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 14.8 minutes.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
7.8%
Drive alone
82.7%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 14,592 workers age 16+.
What does the education layer cover for Texarkana?
The NCES join finds 23 public schools within the city match. 24.3% 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.
Matched public schools
23
Bachelor's degree+
24.3%
Poverty estimate
16.8%
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.
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 D
24.3%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
388 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Household income F
$49,240
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate F
16.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Texarkana profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 47/100 (D) · 24.3%
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 388 /100k
Household income: 19/100 (F) · $49,240
Poverty rate: 19/100 (F) · 16.8%
Where Texarkana sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Texarkana'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 - Texarkana highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Texarkana, TX (this city): home $159,700, crime 2,892/100k
Dunedin, FL : home $341,700, crime 1,003/100k
San Luis, AZ : home $197,400, crime 637/100k
La Porte, TX : home $217,100, crime 1,131/100k
Socorro, TX : home $131,200, crime 954/100k
Farmers Branch, TX : home $322,000, crime 2,749/100k
San Juan, TX : home $118,200, crime 1,573/100k
Copperas Cove, TX : home $167,900, crime 1,674/100k
How does Texarkana compare to other US cities?
Where Texarkana sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income18% higher than other cities
Home value30% 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.
National percentiles can mask local variation. Looking only at Texas, Texarkana ranks #552 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 Texarkana 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 Texarkana near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Texarkana ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Texarkana only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#1,154 of 1,520
24th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#748 of 1,505
50th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#424 of 1,663
74th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#519 of 1,663
68th 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
18th percentile nationally for median household income · 17th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Texarkana's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Texarkana'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 Texarkana's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$159,700Among the most affordablemore affordable than 70% 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
Texarkana's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,889 of 15,516
More affordable than 49% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,229 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, Texarkana sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,889 of 15,516 and #1,229 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
$49,240Texarkana, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Texarkana, 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 Texarkana, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)24.3%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)16.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)52.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
36,039
Median Income
$49,240
Median Home Value
$159,700
Median Age
37.3
Poverty Rate
16.8%
Labor force participation
52.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
24.3%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2892.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
387.8
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2504.1
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
64.0°F
Annual Precipitation
52.4"
Annual Snowfall
2.1"
Schools
Total Schools
23
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Texarkana's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
36,214 residents
2021
36,112 residents
2022
35,836 residents
2023
35,781 residents
2024
36,181 residents
2025
36,195 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
109
housing units authorized
Single-Family
30
detached homes
Multifamily
79
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
37
37
0
$8.4M
2020
47
47
0
$10.7M
2021
54
54
0
$12.3M
2022
44
44
0
$10.0M
2023
179
45
134
$28.3M
2024
109
30
79
$17.5M
Permit volume increased 195% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
14.8 minutes
Drive Alone
82.7%
Carpool
7.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
1.8%
Work from Home
7.8%
Other
0.6%
Based on 14,592 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 Texarkana. 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 Texarkana 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 Texarkana sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Texarkana 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.