Farmers Branch, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Farmers Branch city is a small city in Texas, with 36,254 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #96 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 33.5 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 Farmers Branch city earn a median of $87,702 a year, 11.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 36% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. 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 11% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Farmers Branch city is valued at $322,000, 6.1% above the national figure and 80% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,820 a month, 29.4% above the national figure, or roughly $21,840 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.9% 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 3.7×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 46.1% 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.