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SheetTX-WOLFFORTH-TX · Wolfforth, TX 6,189 pop · income 72nd 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 Wolfforth
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wolfforth on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Doolittle · lowest
36,397
Doolittle · lowest
36,397 median HH income
15.3% of the leader · rank #1
Radisson · near
92,138
Radisson · near
92,138 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #2
Wolfforth · this city
92,143
Wolfforth · this city
92,143 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #3
Fairhaven · near
92,143
Fairhaven · near
92,143 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #4
De Kalb · near
92,143
De Kalb · near
92,143 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #5
Springfield · near
92,153
Springfield · near
92,153 median HH income
38.9% of the leader · rank #6
Fair Haven · highest
237,132
Fair Haven · highest
237,132 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 Wolfforth 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: 6,189.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wolfforth - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Wolfforth lands in the 72nd percentile for household income and the 77th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
72nd
percentile, household income
55th
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
77th
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: Wolfforth, TX
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 6,189 residents in Wolfforth, a small town within Texas. Households in Wolfforth report a median income of $92,143 per year, above the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 5.4%. Wolfforth's housing stock carries a median value of $245,000, and the median resident age is 30.1 years. Educational attainment runs 32.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 72.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 341 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Building Boom), up 255% from five years earlier. Wolfforth reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR figures show 695.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, below the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than 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). A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $1,149 per month statewide. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Texas run around $223, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. 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 Wolfforth'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 schools and households to comparison shortlist to population change to housing and income to work and mobility to reported crime; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Wolfforth, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, 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
What does the education layer cover for Wolfforth?
The NCES join finds 3 public schools within the city match. 32.9% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wolfforth?
Within Texas, the closest population matches are Cameron Park (6,180 residents, $37,140 income); Bridgeport (6,174 residents, $93,914 income); White Oak (6,208 residents, $95,193 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Elsmere, DE (6,189 residents); Rushville, IN (6,186 residents); Martins Ferry, OH (6,192 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.
Is Wolfforth 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 +3,149 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +56.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 341 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
How far does income reach against housing in Wolfforth?
The home-value-to-income reference sits in a middle range: the ACS median home value is 2.7 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.4%, 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.
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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Wolfforth?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. The profile is strongly car-oriented, so a relocation comparison should put trip distance, vehicle access, and household fuel costs ahead of a citywide commute average. The same-state peer links offer a more relevant benchmark than a national label.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 85.5%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Public transit
0.0%
Work from home
7.8%
Drive alone
85.5%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 2,985 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wolfforth?
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 695.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 69% lower in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Property rate
442.7
Violent rate
253.0
Total reported rate
695.7
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, incidents per 100,000. Voluntary agency reporting; not a danger score.
Above median income · poverty 5.4% (Below-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
97.1 (US=100)
Near national cost · BEA RPP 2024, Texas average
C
City profile score · Wolfforth, TX
58/100
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 B
$92,143
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate C+
5.4%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.9%
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 D
253 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Wolfforth profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 71/100 (B) · $92,143
Poverty rate: 63/100 (C+) · 5.4%
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.9%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Violent crime: 40/100 (D) · 253 /100k
Where Wolfforth sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wolfforth'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 - Wolfforth highlighted among 8 peers.Read the chart values
Wolfforth, TX (this city): home $245,000, crime 696/100k
Elsmere, DE : home $210,200, crime 2,021/100k
Martins Ferry, OH : home $92,800, crime 747/100k
Chillicothe, IL : home $128,500, crime 1,095/100k
Fair Haven, NJ : home $943,300, crime 198/100k
Bridgeport, TX : home $241,100, crime 967/100k
White Oak, TX : home $219,200, crime 884/100k
Bulverde, TX : home $380,100, crime 2,167/100k
How does Wolfforth compare to other US cities?
Wolfforth measured against every US city with 1,000+ residents, computed live from the same Census and FBI data shown throughout this page.
Household income72% higher than other cities
Home value55% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety77% 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, Wolfforth ranks #151 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 Wolfforth 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 Wolfforth near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wolfforth ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wolfforth only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#312 of 1,520
79th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#404 of 1,505
73rd percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,077 of 1,663
35th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#329 of 1,663
80th 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
72nd percentile nationally for median household income · 77th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wolfforth's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wolfforth'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 Wolfforth's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$245,00045th percentilemore affordable than 45% 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
Wolfforth's home-value-to-income ratio: 2.7×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
affordable
< 3.0×
National rank
#4,811 of 15,516
More affordable than 69% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#4,245 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 2.7×, Wolfforth sits in the affordable band:
national rank #4,811 of 15,516 and #4,245 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$92,143Wolfforth, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wolfforth, 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 Wolfforth, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.4%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)72.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
6,189
Median Income
$92,143
Median Home Value
$245,000
Median Age
30.1
Poverty Rate
5.4%
Labor force participation
72.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.9%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
695.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
253.0
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
442.7
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
3
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wolfforth's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
5,597 residents
2021
6,030 residents
2022
6,561 residents
2023
7,230 residents
2024
7,929 residents
2025
8,746 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📈 Building Boom
Total Permits (2024)
341
housing units authorized
Single-Family
331
detached homes
Multifamily
10
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
55.1
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
96
82
14
$28.1M
2020
211
167
44
$48.2M
2021
248
246
2
$75.7M
2022
306
266
40
$81.0M
2023
293
293
0
$60.3M
2024
341
331
10
$88.1M
Permit volume increased 255% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
85.5%
Carpool
6.5%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.0%
Work from Home
7.8%
Based on 2,985 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 Wolfforth. 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 Wolfforth 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 Wolfforth sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wolfforth 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.