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Place dossier plate
SheetTX-WESLACO-TX · Weslaco, TX 41,437 pop · income 27th 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 Weslaco
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Weslaco on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Weslaco · this city · lowest
54,995
Weslaco · this city · lowest
54,995 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #1
Gurley · near
55,000
Gurley · near
55,000 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #2
Brevig Mission · near
55,000
Brevig Mission · near
55,000 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #3
Nikolaevsk · near
55,000
Nikolaevsk · near
55,000 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #4
Perrytown · near
55,000
Perrytown · near
55,000 median HH income
36.4% of the leader · rank #5
Milton · highest
151,235
Milton · highest
151,235 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 Weslaco 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: 41,437.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Weslaco - the verdict
Out of every US city with 1,000+ residents, Weslaco places in the 27th percentile for household income and the 8th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
27th
percentile, household income
17th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
8th
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: Weslaco, TX
Texas's Weslaco is a small city, with 41,437 residents per the latest Census Bureau ACS figures. Households in Weslaco report a median income of $54,995 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 23.1%. Home values in Weslaco run a median of $119,200, and the median resident age is 30.2 years. 23.2% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 53.5% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 401 residential building permits were authorized in Weslaco (Construction Slowdown), down 53% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Weslaco's reported crime rate runs above the national norm: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 3915.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, above the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 75.0°F with 25.7 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. 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. 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 Weslaco'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 schools and households to population change to reported crime to work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Weslaco, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, annual population history, commute-mode shares.
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. Climate and hazard context
What physical conditions frame life in Weslaco?
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 75.0°F, with 25.7 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.
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 27 public schools within the city match. 23.2% 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.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +3,578 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +8.8% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 401 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Weslaco?
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 Coppell (42,029 residents, $139,227 income); Friendswood (40,827 residents, $125,052 income); Lancaster (40,753 residents, $67,584 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Shelton, CT (41,402 residents); Princeton, FL (41,476 residents); Marlborough, MA (41,398 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.
Reported crime
What can the FBI record say about safety in Weslaco?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 3915.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, above the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 72% 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
3915.9
Violent rate
467.0
Property rate
3448.9
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
What does the journey to work look like in Weslaco?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 75.5%. 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
75.5%
Work from home
7.5%
Public transit
0.2%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 15,825 workers age 16+.
How far does income reach against housing in Weslaco?
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. The ratio makes housing the clearest place to start this profile, but a low multiple can coexist with slow demand, older stock, or household-level hardship. Compare the home-value distribution and same-state peer table before treating it as an advantage.
The home-value-to-income reference is relatively compact: the ACS median home value is 2.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 23.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
2.2×
Home value
$119,200
Household income
$54,995
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Below median income · poverty 23.1% (Highest-decile poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
F
City profile score · Weslaco, TX
29/100
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.
Bachelor's+ share D
23.2%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income F
$54,995
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime F
467 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Poverty rate F
23.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Weslaco profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Bachelor's+ share: 44/100 (D) · 23.2%
Household income: 27/100 (F) · $54,995
Violent crime: 18/100 (F) · 467 /100k
Poverty rate: 8/100 (F) · 23.1%
Where Weslaco sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Weslaco'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 - Weslaco highlighted among 11 peers.Read the chart values
Weslaco, TX (this city): home $119,200, crime 3,916/100k
Shelton, CT : home $435,700, crime 751/100k
Marlborough, MA : home $485,400, crime 1,458/100k
Milton, GA : home $712,200, crime 543/100k
Brookfield, WI : home $419,300, crime 1,180/100k
Coppell, TX : home $525,300, crime 929/100k
Friendswood, TX : home $399,500, crime 645/100k
Lancaster, TX : home $229,900, crime 3,537/100k
Hurst, TX : home $287,600, crime 2,592/100k
Duncanville, TX : home $239,200, crime 2,586/100k
Schertz, TX : home $292,100, crime 1,041/100k
How does Weslaco compare to other US cities?
Here's how Weslaco stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income27% higher than other cities
Home value17% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety8% 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: Weslaco ranks #599 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 Weslaco 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 Weslaco near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Weslaco ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Weslaco only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#993 of 1,520
35th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#981 of 1,505
35th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#233 of 1,663
86th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#555 of 1,663
66th 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
27th percentile nationally for median household income · 8th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Weslaco's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Weslaco'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 Weslaco's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$119,200Among the most affordablemore affordable than 83% 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
Weslaco's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#2,311 of 15,516
More affordable than 85% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#125 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 2.2×, Weslaco sits in the affordable band:
national rank #2,311 of 15,516 and #125 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
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
$54,995Weslaco, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Weslaco, 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 Weslaco, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)23.2%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)23.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)53.5%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
41,437
Median Income
$54,995
Median Home Value
$119,200
Median Age
30.2
Poverty Rate
23.1%
Labor force participation
53.5%
Bachelor's Degree+
23.2%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
3915.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
467.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
3448.9
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
75.0°F
Annual Precipitation
25.7"
Annual Snowfall
N/A
Schools
Total Schools
27
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Weslaco's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
40,625 residents
2021
41,005 residents
2022
42,271 residents
2023
43,212 residents
2024
43,839 residents
2025
44,203 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
401
housing units authorized
Single-Family
210
detached homes
Multifamily
191
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
9.7
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
854
215
639
$128.3M
2020
289
229
60
$42.2M
2021
685
657
28
$158.5M
2022
477
256
221
$96.3M
2023
395
187
208
$81.3M
2024
401
210
191
$83.7M
Permit volume decreased 53% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
75.5%
Carpool
8.0%
Public Transit
0.2%
Walk
2.5%
Work from Home
7.5%
Other
6.3%
Based on 15,825 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 Weslaco. 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 Weslaco 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 Weslaco sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Weslaco 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.