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SheetTX-THE-COLONY-TX · The Colony, TX 44,916 pop · income 84th 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 The Colony
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest The Colony on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
York · lowest
47,115
York · lowest
47,115 median HH income
27.3% of the leader · rank #1
Downsville · near
111,071
Downsville · near
111,071 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #2
Copake · near
111,089
Copake · near
111,089 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #3
The Colony · this city
111,090
The Colony · this city
111,090 median HH income
64.3% of the leader · rank #4
Lake Villa · near
111,110
Lake Villa · near
111,110 median HH income
64.4% of the leader · rank #5
Menlo Park Te… · near
111,111
Menlo Park Te… · near
111,111 median HH income
64.4% of the leader · rank #6
Keller · highest
172,654
Keller · highest
172,654 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 The Colony 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: 44,916.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
The Colony - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, The Colony places in the 84th percentile for household income and the 44th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
84th
percentile, household income
73rd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
44th
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: The Colony, TX
The Colony is a small city in Texas, home to 44,916 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $111,090 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.1%. Home values in The Colony run a median of $355,100, and the median resident age is 37.4 years. Educational attainment runs 47.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 74.1% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The Census Building Permit Survey recorded 256 residential units authorized here in 2024 (Slowing), down 12% from five years earlier. The Colony reports a comparatively low crime rate: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program logs 1568.7 total incidents per 100,000 residents here, below 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). 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. Workers in The Colony report an average commute of 21.2 minutes, with 69.6% driving alone and 21.6% working from home. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 49.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (Low).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of The Colony'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 population change to work and mobility to housing and income to schools and households to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For The Colony, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits, matched public-school count.
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. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for The Colony?
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 Sherman (45,036 residents, $60,935 income); Keller (45,598 residents, $172,654 income); Haltom City (45,681 residents, $56,156 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Riverton, UT (44,944 residents); Mankato, MN (44,882 residents); Clermont, FL (44,984 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.
Is The Colony growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +1,423 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.2% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 256 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.
What does the journey to work look like in The Colony?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 69.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 21.2 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.
How far does income reach against housing in The Colony?
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 3.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
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.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for The Colony?
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 9 public schools within the city match. 47.7% 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.
Poverty estimate
4.1%
Bachelor's degree+
47.7%
Matched public schools
9
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
What can the FBI record say about safety in The Colony?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 1568.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 31% 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.
Total reported rate
1568.7
Violent rate
190.3
Property rate
1378.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
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-
$111,090
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share A-
47.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B
4.1%
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.
Violent crime D
190 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
The Colony profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 82/100 (A-) · $111,090
Bachelor's+ share: 82/100 (A-) · 47.7%
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.1%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 49/100 (D) · 190 /100k
Where The Colony sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
The Colony'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 - The Colony highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
The Colony, TX (this city): home $355,100, crime 1,569/100k
Riverton, UT : home $543,900, crime 968/100k
Mankato, MN : home $250,600, crime 2,865/100k
Palm Springs, CA : home $567,300, crime 3,817/100k
Shakopee, MN : home $361,400, crime 1,275/100k
York, PA : home $103,100, crime 2,392/100k
Sherman, TX : home $219,300, crime 2,266/100k
Keller, TX : home $557,700, crime 733/100k
Haltom City, TX : home $194,600, crime 2,075/100k
Waxahachie, TX : home $307,900, crime 1,794/100k
Schertz, TX : home $292,100, crime 1,041/100k
How does The Colony compare to other US cities?
Here's how The Colony stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income84% higher than other cities
Home value73% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety44% 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: The Colony ranks #357 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 The Colony 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 The Colony near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, The Colony ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares The Colony only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#185 of 1,520
88th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#185 of 1,505
88th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,198 of 1,663
28th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#152 of 1,663
91st 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
84th percentile nationally for median household income · 44th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
The Colony's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
The Colony'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 The Colony's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$355,10027th percentilemore affordable than 27% 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
The Colony'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
#7,679 of 15,516
More affordable than 51% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,165 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.2×, The Colony sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,679 of 15,516 and #1,165 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
$111,090The Colony, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context The Colony, 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 The Colony, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)47.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)74.1%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
44,916
Median Income
$111,090
Median Home Value
$355,100
Median Age
37.4
Poverty Rate
4.1%
Labor force participation
74.1%
Bachelor's Degree+
47.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1568.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
190.3
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1378.3
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
The Colony's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
44,773 residents
2021
45,241 residents
2022
45,567 residents
2023
45,800 residents
2024
45,974 residents
2025
46,196 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
256
housing units authorized
Single-Family
256
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
291
291
0
$81.0M
2020
239
239
0
$55.7M
2021
156
156
0
$37.2M
2022
186
186
0
$47.7M
2023
142
142
0
$40.1M
2024
256
256
0
$73.5M
Permit volume decreased 12% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
21.2 minutes
Drive Alone
69.6%
Carpool
6.1%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
21.6%
Other
2.1%
Based on 27,229 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 The Colony. 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 The Colony 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 The Colony sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How The Colony 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.