
Texas · Census place 08596
Blanket, TX population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Blanket, Texas (Blanket, TX — Census place “Blanket town”) is 360 residents, ranking #1376 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $45,417, the median home is worth $77,300 and median gross rent runs $578 a month. Looking for the Blanket Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Blanket, TX: 76432.
- Population
- 360Blanket town residents
- Median household income
- $45,417Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $77,300Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $578Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 44.3 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 85.9%Owner-occupied households
Blanket ZIP codes (Texas)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Blanket.
The Blanket TX ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Blanket town
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Blanket town median would spend about 15.3% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 1.7× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.5% of residents and 85.9% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Blanket town, TX in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Blanket town is a very small community in Texas, with 360 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1376 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 26% of them. The median age here is 44.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Blanket town earn a median of $45,417 a year, 42.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 30% 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 12.5% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Blanket town is valued at $77,300, 74.5% below the national figure and 57% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $578 a month, 58.9% below the national figure, or roughly $6,936 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 15.3% 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 1.7×, 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. 85.9% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.
With 360 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Blanket town against its county rather than against national figures.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Blanket town?
- Blanket town has 360 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #1376 of 1,863 in Texas.
- What is the median household income in Blanket town?
- Median household income in Blanket town is $45,417 a year, 42.2% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Blanket town?
- Median gross rent is $578 a month and the median home value is $77,300, so rent absorbs about 15.3% of median household income.
- Is Blanket town affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 1.7× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Blanket town is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 15.3% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Blanket town data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.