Mingus, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Mingus city is a very small community in Texas, with 312 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1425 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 23% of them. The median age here is 49 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 Mingus city earn a median of $42,083 a year, 46.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 35% 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 20.8% 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 Mingus city is valued at $80,000, 73.6% below the national figure and 55% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,188 a month, 15.5% below the national figure, or roughly $14,256 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 33.9% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is a stretch on median earnings. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 1.9×, 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. 74.1% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Mingus city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 33.9% of median income while homes cost only 1.9× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. With 312 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Mingus city against its county rather than against national figures.

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.