Sierra Blanca, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Sierra Blanca CDP is a very small community in Texas, with 694 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1161 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 37% of them. The median age here is 25.7 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 Sierra Blanca CDP earn a median of $53,319 a year, 32.1% below the national figure of $78,538 and 18% 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 34.1% 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 Sierra Blanca CDP is valued at $68,000, 77.6% below the national figure and 62% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,016 a month, 27.7% below the national figure, or roughly $12,192 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22.9% 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 1.3×, 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. 63% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans more heavily on renters. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

A median age of 25.7 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. With 694 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Sierra Blanca CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.