Lake Medina Shores, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Lake Medina Shores CDP is a small town in Texas, with 1,198 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #941 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 49% of them. The median age here is 49.1 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Lake Medina Shores CDP earn a median of $44,926 a year, 42.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 31% 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 32.6% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lake Medina Shores CDP is valued at $158,700, 47.7% below the national figure and 11% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,051 a month, 45.9% above the national figure, or roughly $24,612 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 54.8% 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 3.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 66.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Lake Medina Shores CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 54.8% 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.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.