Pasadena, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Pasadena city is a mid-size city in Texas, with 149,345 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #20 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 98% of them. The median age here is 32.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. At this size the Census also publishes one-year estimates; the five-year values used here are steadier and let you compare against smaller neighbours on the same basis.

Households in Pasadena city earn a median of $64,270 a year, 18.2% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of 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 18.3% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Pasadena city is valued at $193,600, 36.2% below the national figure and 8% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,201 a month, 14.6% below the national figure, or roughly $14,412 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.4% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 54.2% 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.

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.