Texas · FIPS 48117
Deaf Smith ZIP codes — Deaf Smith County, Texas
Quick answer
Deaf Smith County is home to 18,487 residents with a median household income of $54,114 and a median home value of $116,000. 65.9% of households own their home and 15.8% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Deaf Smith ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Deaf Smith County, Texas, listed in full below.
- Population
- 18,487Deaf Smith County residents
- Median household income
- $54,114Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
- Median home value
- $116,000Owner-occupied units
- Median gross rent
- $919Rent plus utilities, monthly
- Median age
- 31.4 yrsAll residents
- Homeownership rate
- 65.9%Owner-occupied households
Deaf Smith County, TX in context
How this area compares with national benchmarks.
Deaf Smith County is a mid-size town in Texas, with 18,487 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 31.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a distinctly younger profile, typical of places with students, military posts or a fast-growing family population. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.
Households in Deaf Smith County earn a median of $54,114 a year, 31.1% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 15.8% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.
The typical owner-occupied home in Deaf Smith County is valued at $116,000, 61.8% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $919 a month, 34.6% below the national figure, or roughly $11,028 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.4% 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 2.1×, 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. 65.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.
Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.
ZIP codes in Deaf Smith County
ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Deaf Smith County.
How to read this page
What these estimates cover.
Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.
Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year
Cities and towns in Texas
Largest Census places in Texas by population.
- Houston city 2,300,419
- San Antonio city 1,458,954
- Dallas city 1,299,553
- Austin city 967,862
- Fort Worth city 941,311
- El Paso city 678,147
- Arlington city 394,769
- Corpus Christi city 317,383
- Plano city 287,339
- Lubbock city 261,078
- Laredo city 255,949
- Irving city 255,036
Nearby counties
Other counties in Texas.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about this area.
- What is the population of Deaf Smith County?
- Deaf Smith County has 18,487 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
- What is the median household income in Deaf Smith County?
- Median household income in Deaf Smith County is $54,114 a year, 31.1% below the national figure of $78,538.
- How much does it cost to rent or buy in Deaf Smith County?
- Median gross rent is $919 a month and the median home value is $116,000, so rent absorbs about 20.4% of median household income.
- Is Deaf Smith County affordable compared with the rest of the US?
- Homes cost about 2.1× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Deaf Smith County is more affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 20.4% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
- How current is this Deaf Smith County data?
- All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.