Big Spring, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Big Spring city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 24,769 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #134 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 92% of them. The median age here is 36.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Big Spring city earn a median of $70,532 a year, 10.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 9% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 18.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Big Spring city is valued at $138,800, 54.3% below the national figure and 23% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,009 a month, 28.2% below the national figure, or roughly $12,108 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 63.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.