Dripping Springs, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Dripping Springs city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 6,322 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #358 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 80% of them. The median age here is 37.3 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 Dripping Springs city earn a median of $106,103 a year, 35.1% above the national figure of $78,538 and 64% above 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 2.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Dripping Springs city is valued at $579,300, 90.9% above the national figure and 223% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,985 a month, 41.2% above the national figure, or roughly $23,820 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.4% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 51.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

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.