What is the population of Booker town?

Booker town has 1,283 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #918 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Booker town?

Median household income in Booker town is $67,569 a year, 14% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Booker town?

Median gross rent is $860 a month and the median home value is $141,400, so rent absorbs about 15.3% of median household income.

Is Booker town affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Booker 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.

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Booker, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Booker, Texas (Booker, TX — Census place “Booker town”) is 1,283 residents, ranking #918 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $67,569, the median home is worth $141,400 and median gross rent runs $860 a month. Looking for the Booker Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Booker, TX: 79005.

Population: 1,283Booker town residents
Median household income: $67,569Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $141,400Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $860Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 34.8 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 75.2%Owner-occupied households

Booker ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Booker.

The Booker TX ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

79005

What the numbers mean in Booker town

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Booker 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 2.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 15.6% of residents and 75.2% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Booker town, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Booker town is a small town in Texas, with 1,283 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #918 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 50% of them. The median age here is 34.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger 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 Booker town earn a median of $67,569 a year, 14% below the national figure of $78,538 and 5% above 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 15.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Booker town is valued at $141,400, 53.4% below the national figure and 21% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $860 a month, 38.8% below the national figure, or roughly $10,320 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 2.1×, 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. 75.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Booker town?: Booker town has 1,283 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #918 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Booker town?: Median household income in Booker town is $67,569 a year, 14% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Booker town?: Median gross rent is $860 a month and the median home value is $141,400, so rent absorbs about 15.3% of median household income.
Is Booker town affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Booker 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 Booker 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.