Lakeside (San Patricio Co.), TX population, income and ZIP codes

Lakeside town (San Patricio County) is a very small community in Texas, with 337 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1396 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 25% of them. The median age here is 49.6 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 Lakeside town (San Patricio County) earn a median of $47,917 a year, 39% below the national figure of $78,538 and 26% below 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 10.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lakeside town (San Patricio County) is valued at $139,700, 54% below the national figure and 22% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,705 a month, 21.3% above the national figure, or roughly $20,460 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 42.7% 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 2.9×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 89.5% 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.

Lakeside town (San Patricio County) is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 42.7% of median income while homes cost only 2.9× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 337 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Lakeside town (San Patricio County) against its county rather than against national figures.

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.