Santa Rosa town, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Santa Rosa town is a small town in Texas, with 3,111 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #559 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 70% of them. The median age here is 25.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. 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 Santa Rosa town earn a median of $29,803 a year, 62.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 54% 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 42.6% 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 Santa Rosa town is valued at $48,700, 83.9% below the national figure and 73% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $892 a month, 36.6% below the national figure, or roughly $10,704 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 35.9% 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 1.6×, 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. 53.9% 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.

Santa Rosa town is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 35.9% of median income while homes cost only 1.6× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price. A median age of 25.5 means a large student or early-career population; income medians in places like this understate household resources, since many residents are supported from outside the address.

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.