Dayton Lakes, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Dayton Lakes city is a very small community in Texas, with 84 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1697 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 8% of them. The median age here is 48.5 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 Dayton Lakes city earn a median of $15,000 a year, 80.9% below the national figure of $78,538 and 77% 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 82.1% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dayton Lakes city is valued at $73,300, 75.8% below the national figure and 59% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 4.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 100% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. 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 84 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Dayton Lakes city against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Dayton Lakes 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.