What is the population of Borger city?

Borger city has 12,398 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #232 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Borger city?

Median household income in Borger city is $59,031 a year, 24.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Borger city?

Median gross rent is $833 a month and the median home value is $90,000, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.

Is Borger city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 1.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Borger city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Borger, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Borger, Texas (Borger, TX — Census place “Borger city”) is 12,398 residents, ranking #232 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $59,031, the median home is worth $90,000 and median gross rent runs $833 a month. Looking for the Borger Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Borger, TX: 79007.

Population: 12,398Borger city residents
Median household income: $59,031Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $90,000Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $833Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 36.3 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 76.1%Owner-occupied households

Borger ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Borger.

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

79007

What the numbers mean in Borger city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Borger city median would spend about 16.9% 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 1.5× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 12.1% of residents and 76.1% of households own their home.

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

Borger city, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Borger city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 12,398 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #232 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 87% of them. The median age here is 36.3 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 Borger city earn a median of $59,031 a year, 24.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 9% 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 12.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Borger city is valued at $90,000, 70.3% below the national figure and 50% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $833 a month, 40.8% below the national figure, or roughly $9,996 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.9% 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 1.5×, 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. 76.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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

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What is the population of Borger city?: Borger city has 12,398 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #232 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Borger city?: Median household income in Borger city is $59,031 a year, 24.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Borger city?: Median gross rent is $833 a month and the median home value is $90,000, so rent absorbs about 16.9% of median household income.
Is Borger city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Borger city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 16.9% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Borger city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.