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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-TEXAS-CITY-TX · Texas City, TX 54,159 pop · income 44th 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 Texas City
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Texas City on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Port Arthur · lowest
45,752
Port Arthur · lowest
45,752 median HH income
39.4% of the leader · rank #1
Staunton · near
65,435
Staunton · near
65,435 median HH income
56.4% of the leader · rank #2
Emsworth · near
65,435
Emsworth · near
65,435 median HH income
56.4% of the leader · rank #3
Rapid · near
65,438
Rapid · near
65,438 median HH income
56.4% of the leader · rank #4
Texas City · this city
65,447
Texas City · this city
65,447 median HH income
56.4% of the leader · rank #5
Narcissa · near
65,455
Narcissa · near
65,455 median HH income
56.4% of the leader · rank #6
Little Elm · highest
116,036
Little Elm · highest
116,036 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 Texas 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: 54,159.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Texas City - the verdict
Texas City ranks in the 44th percentile for household income and the 22nd percentile for safety nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
44th
percentile, household income
40th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
22nd
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: Texas City, TX
54,159 people live in Texas City, Texas - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Texas City households earn a median of $65,447 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 15.0%. Home values in Texas City run a median of $190,600, and the median resident age is 35.0 years. Educational attainment runs 19.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 58.4% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 974 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Rapid Growth), up 20% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: per-100,000 total crime stands at 2554.6 in FBI UCR data, near the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as 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). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,149 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. The average commute for Texas City workers runs 23.7 minutes, with 83.8% driving alone and 4.0% working from home. 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 Texas 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 comparison shortlist to schools and households to reported crime to work and mobility 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 Texas City, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, local building permits, matched public-school count, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates.
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
Which cities make useful reference points for Texas City?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Galveston (53,348 residents, $57,216 income); Port Arthur (55,779 residents, $45,752 income); Kyle (52,439 residents, $89,645 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Rocky Mount, NC (54,175 residents); Peabody, MA (54,180 residents); Kentwood, MI (54,114 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.
What does the education layer cover for Texas City?
The NCES join finds 11 public schools within the city match. 19.7% 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.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Texas City?
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 2554.6 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 12% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
What does the journey to work look like in Texas City?
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 83.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 23.7 minutes.
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 Texas City 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 +7,484 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +14.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 974 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+14.3%
2025 estimate
59,733
2020 estimate
52,249
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Texas City?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 15.0%, 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
$65,447
Home value
$190,600
Value / income
2.9×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 15.0% (High poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Texas City, TX
36/100
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.
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.
Household income D
$65,447
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share F
19.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Violent crime F
339 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
15.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Texas City profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $65,447
Bachelor's+ share: 33/100 (F) · 19.7%
Violent crime: 27/100 (F) · 339 /100k
Poverty rate: 23/100 (F) · 15.0%
Where Texas City sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Texas 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 - Texas City highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Texas City, TX (this city): home $190,600, crime 2,555/100k
Rocky Mount, NC : home $148,300, crime 4,745/100k
Peabody, MA : home $566,200, crime 1,092/100k
Kentwood, MI : home $249,000, crime 2,570/100k
Yucaipa, CA : home $466,000, crime 1,174/100k
Galveston, TX : home $294,300, crime 2,917/100k
Port Arthur, TX : home $96,900, crime 2,258/100k
Kyle, TX : home $302,200, crime 1,022/100k
DeSoto, TX : home $282,600, crime 1,969/100k
Little Elm, TX : home $390,300, crime 557/100k
Burleson, TX : home $282,900, crime 1,260/100k
How does Texas City compare to other US cities?
Texas City measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income44% higher than other cities
Home value40% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety22% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Texas alone, Texas City ranks #526 of 624 Texas cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Texas 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 Texas City near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Texas City ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Texas City only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#704 of 1,520
54th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#591 of 1,505
61st percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#502 of 1,663
69th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#693 of 1,663
58th 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
44th percentile nationally for median household income · 22nd percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Texas City's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Texas 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 Texas City's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$190,600Among the most affordablemore affordable than 60% 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
Texas City's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#6,207 of 15,516
More affordable than 60% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#104 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 2.9×, Texas City sits in the affordable band:
national rank #6,207 of 15,516 and #104 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$65,447Texas City, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Texas 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 Texas City, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)19.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)15.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)58.4%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
54,159
Median Income
$65,447
Median Home Value
$190,600
Median Age
35.0
Poverty Rate
15.0%
Labor force participation
58.4%
Bachelor's Degree+
19.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2554.6
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
338.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
2215.7
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
11
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Texas City's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
52,249 residents
2021
54,300 residents
2022
55,687 residents
2023
56,621 residents
2024
57,890 residents
2025
59,733 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Rapid Growth
Total Permits (2024)
974
housing units authorized
Single-Family
974
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
18
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
814
496
318
$106.5M
2020
1,126
778
348
$168.7M
2021
867
829
38
$196.5M
2022
481
481
0
$120.7M
2023
618
596
22
$170.2M
2024
974
974
0
$279.7M
Permit volume increased 20% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
23.7 minutes
Drive Alone
83.8%
Carpool
8.8%
Public Transit
0.7%
Walk
1.9%
Work from Home
4.0%
Other
0.8%
Based on 24,324 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 Texas 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 Texas 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 Texas City sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Texas 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.