Harker Heights, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Harker Heights city is a small city in Texas, with 33,595 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #108 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 35 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 Harker Heights city earn a median of $82,685 a year, 5.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 28% above 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 10.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Harker Heights city is valued at $269,000, 11.3% below the national figure and 50% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,114 a month, 20.8% below the national figure, or roughly $13,368 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 3.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 62.2% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.