Austwell, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Austwell city is a very small community in Texas, with 153 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1604 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 13% of them. The median age here is 62.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Austwell city earn a median of $38,571 a year, 50.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 40% below the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 17% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Austwell city is valued at $96,700, 68.1% below the national figure and 46% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 81% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 62.2 puts Austwell city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 153 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Austwell city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Austwell city because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.