Channing, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Channing city is a very small community in Texas, with 279 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1463 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 21% of them. The median age here is 48.9 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 Channing city earn a median of not published a year. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 9.7% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Channing city is valued at $95,000, 68.7% below the national figure and 47% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $781 a month, 44.5% below the national figure, or roughly $9,372 across a full year. 66.1% 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.

With 279 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Channing city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld household income for Channing 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.