What is the population of Sanger city?

Sanger city has 9,302 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #280 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Sanger city?

Median household income in Sanger city is $88,987 a year, 13.3% above the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $1,304 a month and the median home value is $284,500, so rent absorbs about 17.6% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sanger city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sanger, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sanger, Texas (Sanger, TX — Census place “Sanger city”) is 9,302 residents, ranking #280 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $88,987, the median home is worth $284,500 and median gross rent runs $1,304 a month. Looking for the Sanger Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Sanger, TX: 76266.

Population: 9,302Sanger city residents
Median household income: $88,987Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $284,500Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $1,304Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 32.7 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 74.3%Owner-occupied households

Sanger ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sanger.

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

76266

What the numbers mean in Sanger city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sanger city median would spend about 17.6% 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 3.2× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 7.1% of residents and 74.3% of households own their home.

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

Sanger city, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sanger city is a mid-size town in Texas, with 9,302 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #280 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 85% of them. The median age here is 32.7 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Sanger city earn a median of $88,987 a year, 13.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 38% above the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 7.1% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sanger city is valued at $284,500, 6.2% below the national figure and 59% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,304 a month, 7.3% below the national figure, or roughly $15,648 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 3.2×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 74.3% 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.

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.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Sanger city?: Sanger city has 9,302 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #280 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Sanger city?: Median household income in Sanger city is $88,987 a year, 13.3% above the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sanger city?: Median gross rent is $1,304 a month and the median home value is $284,500, so rent absorbs about 17.6% of median household income.
Is Sanger city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 3.2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sanger city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sanger city data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.