Cottonwood, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Cottonwood city is a very small community in Texas, with 335 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1400 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 24% of them. The median age here is 40 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 Cottonwood city earn a median of $100,417 a year, 27.9% above the national figure of $78,538 and 55% above 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 Cottonwood city is valued at $265,000, 12.7% below the national figure and 48% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 72% 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.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 335 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Cottonwood city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Cottonwood 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.