Royse City, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Royse City city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 17,357 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #180 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 90% of them. The median age here is 33.3 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 Royse City city earn a median of $116,424 a year, 48.2% above the national figure of $78,538 and 80% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 7.2% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Royse City city is valued at $288,400, 4.9% below the national figure and 61% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,108 a month, 49.9% above the national figure, or roughly $25,296 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 21.7% 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 2.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 86% 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. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.