What is the population of Morton city?

Morton city has 1,510 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #847 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Morton city?

Median household income in Morton city is $40,517 a year, 48.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $703 a month and the median home value is $45,500, so rent absorbs about 20.8% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 1.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Morton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Morton, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Morton, Texas (Morton, TX — Census place “Morton city”) is 1,510 residents, ranking #847 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $40,517, the median home is worth $45,500 and median gross rent runs $703 a month. Looking for the Morton Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Morton, TX: 79346.

Population: 1,510Morton city residents
Median household income: $40,517Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $45,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $703Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 61.6%Owner-occupied households

Morton ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Morton.

The Morton TX ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.

79346

What the numbers mean in Morton city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Morton city median would spend about 20.8% 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 1.1× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 26.9% of residents and 61.6% of households own their home.

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

Morton city, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Morton city is a small town in Texas, with 1,510 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #847 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 54% of them. The median age here is 39.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Morton city earn a median of $40,517 a year, 48.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 37% 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 26.9% 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 Morton city is valued at $45,500, 85% below the national figure and 75% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $703 a month, 50% below the national figure, or roughly $8,436 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.8% 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 1.1×, 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. 61.6% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. 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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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Morton city?: Morton city has 1,510 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #847 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Morton city?: Median household income in Morton city is $40,517 a year, 48.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Morton city?: Median gross rent is $703 a month and the median home value is $45,500, so rent absorbs about 20.8% of median household income.
Is Morton city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 1.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Morton city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.8% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Morton city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.