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SheetTX-WYLIE-TX · Wylie, TX 58,991 pop · income 85th 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 Wylie
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Wylie on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Port Arthur · lowest
45,752
Port Arthur · lowest
45,752 median HH income
19.8% of the leader · rank #1
Alexandria · near
113,638
Alexandria · near
113,638 median HH income
49.2% of the leader · rank #2
Loxahatchee G… · near
113,654
Loxahatchee G… · near
113,654 median HH income
49.2% of the leader · rank #3
Wylie · this city
113,661
Wylie · this city
113,661 median HH income
49.2% of the leader · rank #4
Pompton Plains · near
113,661
Pompton Plains · near
113,661 median HH income
49.2% of the leader · rank #5
St. James · near
113,670
St. James · near
113,670 median HH income
49.2% of the leader · rank #6
Cupertino · highest
231,139
Cupertino · highest
231,139 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 Wylie 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: 58,991.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Wylie - the verdict
Nationally, Wylie sits in the 85th percentile for household income and the 67th percentile for safety among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
85th
percentile, household income
72nd
percentile, home value
40th
percentile, median rent
67th
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: Wylie, TX
Wylie is a small city in Texas, home to 58,991 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Wylie report a median income of $113,661 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.1%. Wylie's housing stock carries a median value of $350,100, and the median resident age is 34.8 years. About 40.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 70.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Housing supply pressure shows in Census Building Permit Survey data: 444 residential units were authorized in 2024 (Stable), up 4% from five years earlier. Wylie reports a comparatively low crime rate: FBI UCR reporting places total crime at 925.9 incidents per 100,000 residents, below the national average (voluntary agency reporting, reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score).
Texas tracks close to the national cost-of-living baseline: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Texas scores 97.1 (Near Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. 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 Wylie report an average commute of 26.1 minutes, with 66.8% driving alone and 18.0% working from home. 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 Wylie'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 housing and income to population change to schools and households to comparison shortlist 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 Wylie, city-specific coverage includes FBI reported-crime rates, matched public-school count, local building permits, 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. Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Wylie?
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 3.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +5,945 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +10.3% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 444 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.
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 18 public schools within the city match. 40.6% 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Wylie?
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 Euless (60,373 residents, $80,987 income); DeSoto (55,896 residents, $83,256 income); Port Arthur (55,779 residents, $45,752 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Taylorsville, UT (59,010 residents); Medford, MA (59,062 residents); Cupertino, CA (58,886 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.
Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Wylie?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.8%. The reported mean trip to work is 26.1 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.
Drive alone
66.8%
Work from home
18.0%
Public transit
0.4%
City-level Census ACS commuting estimates covering 30,510 workers age 16+.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Wylie?
The joined FBI UCR record reports 925.9 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, below the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 59% 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
925.9
Violent rate
65.9
Property rate
860.0
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-
$113,661
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Violent crime A-
66 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
40.6%
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.
Wylie profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 83/100 (A-) · $113,661
Violent crime: 80/100 (A-) · 66 /100k
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 40.6%
Poverty rate: 71/100 (B) · 4.1%
Cost of living: 53/100 (C-) · 97.1 index
Where Wylie sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Wylie'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 - Wylie highlighted among 12 peers.Read the chart values
Wylie, TX (this city): home $350,100, crime 926/100k
Medford, MA : home $715,500, crime 1,379/100k
Cupertino, CA : home $2,000,000+, crime 1,678/100k
Grand Forks, ND : home $243,300, crime 2,641/100k
Casper, WY : home $250,700, crime 2,401/100k
Dubuque, IA : home $193,100, crime 1,836/100k
Euless, TX : home $294,500, crime 2,293/100k
DeSoto, TX : home $282,600, crime 1,969/100k
Port Arthur, TX : home $96,900, crime 2,258/100k
Texas City, TX : home $190,600, crime 2,555/100k
Rowlett, TX : home $342,400, crime 1,457/100k
Galveston, TX : home $294,300, crime 2,917/100k
How does Wylie compare to other US cities?
Here's how Wylie stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income85% higher than other cities
Home value72% pricier than other cities
Median rent40% pricier than other cities
Safety67% 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: Wylie ranks #207 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 Wylie 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 Wylie near the bottom of Texas's cities
Among the 1,663 Texas cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Wylie ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Wylie only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#169 of 1,520
89th percentile in Texas
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 1,663
0th percentile in Texas
Median Home Value
#193 of 1,505
87th percentile in Texas
Poverty Rate
#1,198 of 1,663
28th percentile in Texas
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#220 of 1,663
87th 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
85th percentile nationally for median household income · 67th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Wylie's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Wylie'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 Wylie's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$350,10028th percentilemore affordable than 28% 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
Wylie's home-value-to-income ratio: 3.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#7,099 of 15,516
More affordable than 54% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#130 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 3.1×, Wylie sits in the moderate band:
national rank #7,099 of 15,516 and #130 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
$113,661Wylie, TX median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Wylie, 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 Wylie, TX.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)40.6%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)70.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
58,991
Median Income
$113,661
Median Home Value
$350,100
Median Age
34.8
Poverty Rate
4.1%
Labor force participation
70.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
40.6%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
925.9
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
65.9
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
860.0
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
18
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Wylie's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
57,897 residents
2021
59,493 residents
2022
61,240 residents
2023
61,739 residents
2024
62,908 residents
2025
63,842 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
🏗️ Stable
Total Permits (2024)
444
housing units authorized
Single-Family
311
detached homes
Multifamily
133
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
7.5
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
428
424
4
$104.1M
2020
511
494
17
$117.9M
2021
516
502
14
$121.4M
2022
270
254
16
$61.8M
2023
438
347
91
$111.3M
2024
444
311
133
$108.6M
Permit volume increased 4% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
26.1 minutes
Drive Alone
66.8%
Carpool
11.7%
Public Transit
0.4%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
18.0%
Other
2.1%
Based on 30,510 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 Wylie. 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 Wylie 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 Wylie sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Wylie 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.