Gardendale, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Gardendale CDP is a small town in Texas, with 1,520 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #843 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 54% of them. The median age here is 31.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Gardendale CDP earn a median of $96,974 a year, 23.5% above the national figure of $78,538 and 50% 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 1.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Gardendale CDP is valued at $367,700, 21.2% above the national figure and 105% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,306 a month, 7.1% below the national figure, or roughly $15,672 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 90.3% 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.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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.