
Texas · Census place 26736
Fort Hood, TX population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Fort Hood, Texas (Fort Hood, TX — Census place “Fort Hood CDP”) is 25,786 residents, ranking #127 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $59,661, the median home is worth — and median gross rent runs $1,368 a month. Looking for the Fort Hood Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Fort Hood, TX: 76544.
- Population
- 25,786Fort Hood CDP residents
- Median household income
- $59,661Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- —Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,368Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 21.8 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 0.3%Owner-occupied households
Fort Hood ZIP codes (Texas)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Fort Hood.
The Fort Hood TX ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Fort Hood CDP
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Fort Hood CDP median would spend about 27.5% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. Poverty affects 12.3% of residents and 0.3% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Fort Hood CDP, TX in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Fort Hood CDP is a small city in Texas, with 25,786 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #127 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 93% of them. The median age here is 21.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Fort Hood CDP earn a median of $59,661 a year, 24% below the national figure of $78,538 and 8% 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 12.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Fort Hood CDP is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,368 a month, 2.7% below the national figure, or roughly $16,416 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 27.5% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 0.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
A median age of 21.8 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.
The Census withheld home value for Fort Hood CDP 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.
Compare with nearby places
Places of similar size in Texas.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Fort Hood CDP?
- Fort Hood CDP has 25,786 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #127 of 1,863 in Texas.
- What is the median household income in Fort Hood CDP?
- Median household income in Fort Hood CDP is $59,661 a year, 24% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Fort Hood CDP?
- Median gross rent is $1,368 a month and the median home value is not published, so rent absorbs about 27.5% of median household income.
- Is Fort Hood CDP affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- The Census does not publish enough home-value or income detail for Fort Hood CDP to compute a reliable affordability ratio.
- How current is this Fort Hood CDP data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.