What is the population of Sunray city?

Sunray city has 2,771 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #611 of 1,863 in Texas.

What is the median household income in Sunray city?

Median household income in Sunray city is $64,104 a year, 18.4% below the national figure of $78,538.

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

Median gross rent is $931 a month and the median home value is $130,100, so rent absorbs about 17.4% of median household income.

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

Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sunray city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Sunray, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Quick answer

The population of the city of Sunray, Texas (Sunray, TX — Census place “Sunray city”) is 2,771 residents, ranking #611 of 1863 places in Texas. Median household income is $64,104, the median home is worth $130,100 and median gross rent runs $931 a month. Looking for the Sunray Texas ZIP code list? 1 ZIP codes serve Sunray, TX: 79086.

Population: 2,771Sunray city residents
Median household income: $64,104Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $130,100Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $931Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 34.9 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 80.7%Owner-occupied households

Sunray ZIP codes (Texas)

Census ZCTAs whose delivery area overlaps Sunray.

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

79086

What the numbers mean in Sunray city

Housing cost measured against local earnings.

A household earning the Sunray city median would spend about 17.4% 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 2.0× the median household income; nationally that ratio sits near 4.5×. Poverty affects 10.9% of residents and 80.7% of households own their home.

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

Sunray city, TX in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Sunray city is a small town in Texas, with 2,771 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #611 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 67% of them. The median age here is 34.9 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 Sunray city earn a median of $64,104 a year, 18.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and within a couple of points of the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 10.9% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Sunray city is valued at $130,100, 57.1% below the national figure and 27% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $931 a month, 33.8% below the national figure, or roughly $11,172 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 17.4% 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×, 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. 80.7% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

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 Sunray city?: Sunray city has 2,771 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, ranking #611 of 1,863 in Texas.
What is the median household income in Sunray city?: Median household income in Sunray city is $64,104 a year, 18.4% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Sunray city?: Median gross rent is $931 a month and the median home value is $130,100, so rent absorbs about 17.4% of median household income.
Is Sunray city affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 2× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Sunray city is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 17.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Sunray 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.