What is the population of Lufkin city?

Lufkin city has 34,158 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #104 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Lufkin city?

Median household income in Lufkin city is $56,722 a year, 27.8% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Lufkin city?

Median gross rent is $1,043 a month and the median home value is $162,600, so rent absorbs about 22.1% of median household income.

Is Lufkin city affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 2.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Lufkin city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Lufkin, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Lufkin, Texas (Lufkin, TX — Census place “Lufkin city”) is 34,158 residents, ranking #104 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $56,722, the median home is worth $162,600 and median gross rent runs $1,043 a month. Looking for the Lufkin Texas ZIP code list? 3 ZIP codes serve Lufkin, TX: 75901, 75903, 75904.

Population: 34,158Lufkin city residents
Median household income: $56,722Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $162,600Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,043Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 33.4 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 52%Owner-occupied households

Lufkin ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Lufkin.

The Lufkin TX ZIP code list below covers 3 ZIP codes. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

What the numbers mean in Lufkin city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Lufkin city median would spend about 22.1% of gross income on the median rent. The 30% mark is the federal threshold for cost burden, so anything above it signals a stretched rental market. The median home costs 2.9× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 19.2% of residents and 52% of households own their home.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Lufkin city, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Lufkin city is a small city in Texas, with 34,158 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #104 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 94% of them. The median age here is 33.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Lufkin city earn a median of $56,722 a year, 27.8% below the national figure of $78,538 and 12% 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 19.2% 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 Lufkin city is valued at $162,600, 46.4% below the national figure and 9% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,043 a month, 25.8% below the national figure, or roughly $12,516 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. 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. 52% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.

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What is the population of Lufkin city?: Lufkin city has 34,158 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #104 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Lufkin city?: Median household income in Lufkin city is $56,722 a year, 27.8% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Lufkin city?: Median gross rent is $1,043 a month and the median home value is $162,600, so rent absorbs about 22.1% of median household income.
Is Lufkin city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2.9× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Lufkin city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 22.1% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Lufkin city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.