Sandy Oaks, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Sandy Oaks city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 5,227 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #412 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 77% of them. The median age here is 43.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older 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 Sandy Oaks city earn a median of $51,433 a year, 34.5% below the national figure of $78,538 and 20% below 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 14.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sandy Oaks city is valued at $115,000, 62.1% below the national figure and 36% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,309 a month, 6.9% below the national figure, or roughly $15,708 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.5% 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 2.2×, 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. 92.1% 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.

Sandy Oaks city is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.5% of median income while homes cost only 2.2× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.