Hartley, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Hartley CDP is a very small community in Texas, with 514 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1258 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 32% of them. The median age here is 28.9 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 Hartley CDP earn a median of $54,050 a year, 31.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and 16% 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 8.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Hartley CDP is valued at $186,700, 38.5% below the national figure and 4% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,538 a month, 9.4% above the national figure, or roughly $18,456 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 34.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 63.6% 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.

Hartley CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 34.1% of median income while homes cost only 3.5× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 28.9 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.

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.