Taft Southwest, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Taft Southwest CDP is a small town in Texas, with 1,399 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #880 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 52% of them. The median age here is 30.3 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 Taft Southwest CDP earn a median of $50,769 a year, 35.4% below the national figure of $78,538 and 21% 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 8.3% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Taft Southwest CDP is valued at $92,900, 69.4% below the national figure and 48% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,286 a month, 8.5% below the national figure, or roughly $15,432 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 30.4% 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 1.8×, 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. 50.2% 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.

Taft Southwest CDP is the unusual combination of expensive to rent and cheap to buy: rent takes 30.4% of median income while homes cost only 1.8× it. Where that pattern shows up, the gap is normally down to down-payment and credit barriers rather than price.

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.