Alpine, TX
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Alpine, TX: 2 USPS ZIPs, population 7,711. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet ALPINE-TX · Alpine, TX 2 ZIPs · 7,711 pop · #14707/25278 · Brewster County
INC-MID · RANK-MID · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-FEW · OWN-MID · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID
- INC-MID $66,546
- RANK-MID #14707/25278
- ABOVE-PEER over Big Bend Nationa
- BOOK-FEW 2 ZIPs
- OWN-MID 67% owners
- POP-TOWN 7,711
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-MID $229,400
Nearest income peer: Big Bend National Park, TX ( $16,929 income $)
Instrument codes from this city’s ACS household income, national rank, county-peer gap, ZIP book, owner tenure, population scale, intra-city income spread, and home-value band, not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Alpine
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Alpine on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Terlingua · lowest
Terlingua · lowest
$34,712 median HH income
- Marathon · near
Marathon · near
$45,596 median HH income
- Big Bend Natio · near
Big Bend Natio · near
$49,617 median HH income
- Alpine · this city · highest
Alpine · this city · highest
$66,546 median HH income
What this shows County-sharing peers only, not the full US city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the mosaic is wide.
National city placement
According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Alpine, TX sits among US cities with a below-median household income, on a town-scale population base, across a handful of delivery areas.
- 42nd pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 7,711
- city population (Census)
- 2
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $66,546
- avg ZIP median income
Income percentile ranks this city's average ZIP median household income against 25,278 US cities with ACS income on at least one ZIP. Scale and ZIP-spread words come from Census population and USPS ZIP coverage.
Below-median income with few delivery areas (2): read cost-of-living from the primary ZIP. Household income $66,546 and poverty 9.3% concentrate in 79830.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (67.4%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Alpine as a pure owner town.
Within Texas, Eden is the closest lower-income city and Daingerfield the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Alpine.
ZIP Codes in Alpine, TX
These ZIP codes sit in Brewster County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 2 of them fall in Alpine. See the Brewster County roll-up →
No other city sharing Brewster County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Alpine. Terlingua, Marathon and Big Bend National Park sit below it, so a household comparing this county on income alone starts here. Terlingua marks the far end of that range at $34,712, 48% below Alpine.
Side-by-side: Compare 79830 vs 79831 →
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Alpine, then BLS wages if you need the labor-market side of the same small geography.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates (2023). Verify with Census Bureau →
Source: HUD USPS Crosswalk (ZIP-to-county mapping) and Source: simplemaps.com (ZIP coordinates & timezones). Verify with HUD →
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