Hawk Cove, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Hawk Cove city is a very small community in Texas, with 387 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1354 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 27% of them. The median age here is 43.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Hawk Cove city earn a median of $36,042 a year, 54.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 44% below 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 17.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Hawk Cove city is valued at $83,900, 72.3% below the national figure and 53% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,208 a month, 14.1% below the national figure, or roughly $14,496 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 40.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is severely stretched — a median-income renter clears the cost-burden line by a wide margin before utilities beyond the gross-rent definition. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 2.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so purchase prices are unusually low against local pay, the pattern in places where supply is plentiful and wage growth has been flat. 86% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Hawk Cove city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 40.2% of median income while homes cost only 2.3× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 387 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Hawk Cove city against its county rather than against national figures.

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.