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SheetTX-WEATHERFORD-TX · Weatherford, TX 33,924 pop · income 60th pct · 29 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 Weatherford
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Weatherford on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lufkin · lowest
56,722
Lufkin · lowest
56,722 median HH income
30.2% of the leader · rank #1
Auburn Hills · near
78,727
Auburn Hills · near
78,727 median HH income
42.0% of the leader · rank #2
Weatherford · this city
78,738
Weatherford · this city
78,738 median HH income
42.0% of the leader · rank #3
Conning Tower… · near
78,738
Conning Tower… · near
78,738 median HH income
42.0% of the leader · rank #4
Phoenix Lake · near
78,750
Phoenix Lake · near
78,750 median HH income
42.0% of the leader · rank #5
Kurtistown · near
78,750
Kurtistown · near
78,750 median HH income
42.0% of the leader · rank #6
Prosper · highest
187,603
Prosper · highest
187,603 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 Weatherford 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: 33,924.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Weatherford - the verdict
Nationally, Weatherford sits in the 60th percentile for household income and the 39th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
60th
percentile, household income
62nd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
39th
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: Weatherford, TX
Texas's Weatherford is a small city, with 33,924 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Weatherford report a median income of $78,738 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 8.0%. Weatherford's housing stock carries a median value of $285,000, and the median resident age is 37.4 years. Educational attainment runs 28.6% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 61.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 170 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Construction Slowdown), down 37% from five years earlier. Weatherford reports a comparatively low crime rate: per-100,000 total crime stands at 1712.3 in FBI UCR data, below the national average (a voluntary reporting program, read this as reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). NOAA climate normals record an annual average temperature of 64.2°F with 35.2 inches of precipitation per year.
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. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Texas's average monthly utility costs around $223 (state average). 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 Weatherford'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 work and mobility to comparison shortlist to housing and income to population change to within-city variation to climate and hazard context to reported crime to schools and households; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Weatherford, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Weatherford?
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 78.6%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Weatherford?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Cibolo (33,829 residents, $125,230 income); Deer Park (33,823 residents, $95,233 income); Lufkin (34,158 residents, $56,722 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Woodridge, IL (33,889 residents); Kingman, AZ (33,850 residents); Eastpointe, MI (34,003 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Weatherford?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 3.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 8.0%, 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.
What can 29 Census tracts reveal inside Weatherford?
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 29 Census tracts to this city.
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 Weatherford 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 +9,474 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +30.4% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 170 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
+30.4%
2025 estimate
40,634
2020 estimate
31,160
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
What physical conditions frame life in Weatherford?
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 64.2°F, with 35.2 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.
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.
Mean temperature
64.2°F
Annual precipitation
35.2 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
49.0
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Weatherford?
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 1712.3 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 25% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
1540.5
Violent rate
171.7
Total reported rate
1712.3
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the education layer cover for Weatherford?
The NCES join finds 15 public schools within the city match. 28.6% 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
15
Bachelor's degree+
28.6%
Poverty estimate
8.0%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
Above median income · poverty 8.0% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C-
City profile score · Weatherford, TX
54/100
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 C
$78,738
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share C
28.6%
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.
Violent crime C-
172 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate D
8.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Weatherford profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 58/100 (C) · $78,738
Bachelor's+ share: 56/100 (C) · 28.6%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 53/100 (C-) · 172 /100k
Poverty rate: 48/100 (D) · 8.0%
Where Weatherford sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Weatherford'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 - Weatherford highlighted among 13 peers.Read the chart values
Weatherford, TX (this city): home $285,000, crime 1,712/100k
Woodridge, IL : home $345,200, crime 878/100k
Kingman, AZ : home $242,700, crime 3,601/100k
Eastpointe, MI : home $129,100, crime 2,992/100k
Leawood, KS : home $620,400, crime 1,579/100k
Syracuse, UT : home $531,600, crime 553/100k
Kearney, NE : home $235,800, crime 1,926/100k
Cibolo, TX : home $324,600, crime 994/100k
Deer Park, TX : home $238,900, crime 1,394/100k
Lufkin, TX : home $162,600, crime 2,724/100k
Harker Heights, TX : home $269,000, crime 1,125/100k
Prosper, TX : home $694,600, crime 1,053/100k
Del Rio, TX : home $143,200, crime 1,454/100k
How does Weatherford compare to other US cities?
Weatherford measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income60% higher than other cities
Home value62% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety39% 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, Weatherford ranks #397 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 Weatherford 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 Weatherford near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Weatherford ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Weatherford only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#449 of 1,520
70th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#298 of 1,505
80th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#888 of 1,663
46th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#410 of 1,663
75th 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
60th percentile nationally for median household income · 39th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Weatherford's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Weatherford'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 Weatherford's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$285,00038th percentilemore affordable than 38% 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
Weatherford's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#9,432 of 15,516
More affordable than 39% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#1,602 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 3.6×, Weatherford sits in the moderate band:
national rank #9,432 of 15,516 and #1,602 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
$78,738Weatherford, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Weatherford, 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 Weatherford, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)28.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)8.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)61.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
33,924
Median Income
$78,738
Median Home Value
$285,000
Median Age
37.4
Poverty Rate
8.0%
Labor force participation
61.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
28.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
1712.3
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
171.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1540.5
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
64.2°F
Annual Precipitation
35.2"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
15
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Weatherford's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
31,160 residents
2021
33,973 residents
2022
36,239 residents
2023
38,206 residents
2024
39,536 residents
2025
40,634 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
170
housing units authorized
Single-Family
170
detached homes
Multifamily
0
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
269
189
80
$45.5M
2020
877
281
596
$136.9M
2021
446
446
0
$93.7M
2022
394
394
0
$79.3M
2023
117
117
0
$21.5M
2024
170
170
0
$36.8M
Permit volume decreased 37% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
78.6%
Carpool
8.1%
Public Transit
0.5%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
10.7%
Other
1.1%
Based on 16,538 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 Weatherford. 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 Weatherford 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 Weatherford sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Weatherford 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.