Abilene, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Abilene city is a mid-size city in Texas, with 127,130 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #28 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 32.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Abilene city earn a median of $62,720 a year, 20.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 3% below the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 14.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Abilene city is valued at $178,900, 41% below the national figure and within a couple of points of the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,106 a month, 21.3% below the national figure, or roughly $13,272 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 55.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.