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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-TYLER-TX · Tyler, TX 107,718 pop · income 44th pct · 56 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 Tyler
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Tyler on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Tuscaloosa · lowest
48,536
Tuscaloosa · lowest
48,536 median HH income
35.3% of the leader · rank #1
Soso · near
65,521
Soso · near
65,521 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #2
Sterling · near
65,521
Sterling · near
65,521 median HH income
47.6% of the leader · rank #3
Grand Rapids · near
65,526
Grand Rapids · near
65,526 median HH income
47.7% of the leader · rank #4
Tyler · this city
65,527
Tyler · this city
65,527 median HH income
47.7% of the leader · rank #5
Churchill · near
65,533
Churchill · near
65,533 median HH income
47.7% of the leader · rank #6
Sugar Land · highest
137,511
Sugar Land · highest
137,511 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 Tyler 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: 107,718.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Tyler - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Tyler places in the 44th percentile for household income and the 26th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
44th
percentile, household income
47th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
26th
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: Tyler, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 107,718 residents in Tyler, a mid-sized U.S. city within Texas. Median household income here is $65,527 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 7.9%. Tyler's housing stock carries a median value of $216,400, and the median resident age is 35.5 years. About 30.7% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 60.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 347 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Slowing), down 17% from five years earlier. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 2305.0 incidents per 100,000 residents, near the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 66.5°F with 47.7 inches of precipitation per year.
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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. Monthly utility costs average around $223 across Texas, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Tyler'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 within-city variation to schools and households to climate and hazard context to population change to housing and income to reported crime to comparison shortlist to work and mobility; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Tyler, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, commute-mode shares, local building permits, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, matched public-school count.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
Question 1
What can 56 Census tracts reveal inside Tyler?
PlainCities matches 56 Census tracts to this city.
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.
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 39 public schools within the city match. 30.7% 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 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.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 66.5°F, with 47.7 inches of precipitation. 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Tyler?
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 Allen (107,684 residents, $129,130 income); Sugar Land (109,735 residents, $137,511 income); Edinburg (102,561 residents, $57,789 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Tuscaloosa, AL (107,699 residents); Riverview, FL (107,776 residents); Dearborn, MI (107,846 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 Tyler growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +7,541 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +7.1% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 347 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
106,182
2025 estimate
113,723
Period change
+7.1%
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
How far does income reach against housing in Tyler?
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 3.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 7.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
3.3×
Home value
$216,400
Household income
$65,527
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Tyler?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2305.0 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 1% higher 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
2305.0
Violent rate
391.2
Property rate
1913.8
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 80.6%. 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. 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.
Drive alone
80.6%
Work from home
7.3%
Public transit
0.1%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 50,570 workers age 16+.
Below median income · poverty 7.9% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
D
City profile score · Tyler, TX
44/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.7%
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.
Poverty rate D
7.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income D
$65,527
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
391 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Tyler profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.7%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 7.9%
Household income: 43/100 (D) · $65,527
Violent crime: 23/100 (F) · 391 /100k
Where Tyler sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Tyler'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 - Tyler highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Tyler, TX (this city): home $216,400, crime 2,305/100k
Tuscaloosa, AL : home $236,600, crime 3,285/100k
Dearborn, MI : home $205,900, crime 2,292/100k
West Covina, CA : home $712,300, crime 2,338/100k
Centennial, CO : home $626,700, crime 1,882/100k
Sandy Springs, GA : home $583,900, crime 1,600/100k
Allen, TX : home $429,900, crime 985/100k
Sugar Land, TX : home $406,600, crime 1,462/100k
Edinburg, TX : home $174,800, crime 2,027/100k
Wichita Falls, TX : home $142,600, crime 2,969/100k
Beaumont, TX : home $158,800, crime 4,440/100k
Odessa, TX : home $208,000, crime 2,159/100k
How does Tyler compare to other US cities?
Here's how Tyler stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income44% higher than other cities
Home value47% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety26% 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, Tyler ranks #498 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 Tyler 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 Tyler near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Tyler ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Tyler only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#702 of 1,520
54th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#503 of 1,505
67th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#896 of 1,663
46th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#372 of 1,663
78th 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 · 26th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Tyler's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Tyler'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 Tyler's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$216,400Among the most affordablemore affordable than 53% 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
Tyler's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#8,134 of 15,516
More affordable than 48% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#165 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.3×, Tyler sits in the moderate band:
national rank #8,134 of 15,516 and #165 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
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
$65,527Tyler, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Tyler, 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 Tyler, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)7.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)60.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
107,718
Median Income
$65,527
Median Home Value
$216,400
Median Age
35.5
Poverty Rate
7.9%
Labor force participation
60.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2305.0
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
391.2
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1913.8
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.
Climate
Avg Temperature
66.5°F
Annual Precipitation
47.7"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
39
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Tyler's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
106,182 residents
2021
107,427 residents
2022
109,457 residents
2023
110,736 residents
2024
112,547 residents
2025
113,723 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Slowing
Total Permits (2024)
347
housing units authorized
Single-Family
213
detached homes
Multifamily
134
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.2
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
416
392
24
$111.3M
2020
463
362
101
$97.7M
2021
533
433
100
$115.9M
2022
376
316
60
$87.9M
2023
522
268
254
$110.5M
2024
347
213
134
$80.7M
Permit volume decreased 17% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
80.6%
Carpool
8.5%
Public Transit
0.1%
Walk
1.3%
Work from Home
7.3%
Other
2.2%
Based on 50,570 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 Tyler. 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 Tyler 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 Tyler sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Tyler 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.