Lucas, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Lucas city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 8,040 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #313 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 83% of them. The median age here is 46.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. 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 Lucas city earn a median of $178,403 a year, 127.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 176% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 1.5% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lucas city is valued at $861,500, 183.9% above the national figure and 381% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,764 a month, 25.5% above the national figure, or roughly $21,168 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 11.9% 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 4.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 89.9% 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.