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Shallowater, TX population, income and ZIP codes
Quick answer
The population of the city of Shallowater, Texas (Shallowater, TX — Census place “Shallowater city”) is 2,935 residents, ranking #583 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $79,848, the median home is worth $210,400 and median gross rent runs $1,179 a month. Looking for the Shallowater Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Shallowater, TX: 79363.
- Population
- 2,935Shallowater city residents
- Median household income
- $79,848Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $210,400Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $1,179Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 36.9 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 81.4%Owner-occupied households
Shallowater ZIP codes (Texas)
Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Shallowater.
The Shallowater TX ZIP code list below covers 1 ZIP code. Open any one for its population, income, housing and rent profile.
What the numbers mean in Shallowater city
Housing cost measured against local earnings.
A household earning the Shallowater city median would spend about 17.7% 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 2.6× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 4.6% of residents and 81.4% of households own their home.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Shallowater city, TX in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Shallowater city is a small town in Texas, with 2,935 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #583 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 68% of them. The median age here is 36.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Shallowater city earn a median of $79,848 a year, 1.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 24% 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 4.6% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Shallowater city is valued at $210,400, 30.7% below the national figure and 17% above the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,179 a month, 16.1% below the national figure, or roughly $14,148 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.7% 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 2.6×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 81.4% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Shallowater city?
- Shallowater city has 2,935 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #583 of 1,863 in Texas.
- What is the median household income in Shallowater city?
- Median household income in Shallowater city is $79,848 a year, 1.7% above the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Shallowater city?
- Median gross rent is $1,179 a month and the median home value is $210,400, so rent absorbs about 17.7% of median household income.
- Is Shallowater city affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.6× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Shallowater city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.7% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Shallowater city data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. 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.