Cool, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Cool city is a very small community in Texas, with 116 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1649 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 11% of them. The median age here is 52 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 Cool city earn a median of $52,188 a year, 33.6% below the national figure of $78,538 and 19% below 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 16.4% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Cool city is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $2,100 a month, 49.4% above the national figure, or roughly $25,200 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 48.3% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. 78.9% 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.

A median age of 52 puts Cool city well into retirement-weighted territory, which pulls median household income down even where household wealth is high, because retirement draws are counted differently from wages. With 116 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Cool city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for Cool 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.