ZIP code 79102

ZIP 79102 is a mid-size town in Potter County, Texas, with 8,822 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #851 of 1,989 ranked by population — larger than 57% of them. The median age here is 38.9 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 ZIP 79102 earn a median of $48,551 a year, 38.2% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 23.5% 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 ZIP 79102 is valued at $146,500, 51.7% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $891 a month, 36.6% below the national figure, or roughly $10,692 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 22% 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 3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is easier here than in the average US market. 53.8% 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.

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.

ZIP 79102 is tabulated inside Potter County, Texas, one of 11 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 1,989 across Texas. Population sits in the small-town band, typically one main street plus the addresses that feed into it. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 79102 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 79102 reports a median household income of $48,551, 12% below the $55,146 county median, and 29% below the $68,103 typical TX ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of $146,500, close to the county figure and 25% below the statewide ZIP median. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $891 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Texas charges 6.25% statewide, and local governments overlapping 79102 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 79102 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.