Ben Bolt, TX
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Ben Bolt, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 386. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
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ACS city ledger plate
Sheet BEN-BOLT-TX · Ben Bolt, TX 1 ZIPs · 386 pop · #23831/25278 · Jim Wells County
INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-LOW · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-UNK
- INC-LOW $40,739
- RANK-BOTTOM #23831/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Premont
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-LOW 62% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 386
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-UNK Homes pending
Nearest income peer: Premont, TX (+ $7,202 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 Ben Bolt
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Ben Bolt on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Ben Bolt · this city · lowest $40,739
Ben Bolt · this city · lowest
$40,739 median HH income
- Premont · near
Premont · near
$47,941 median HH income
- Alice · near
Alice · near
$49,887 median HH income
- Orange Grove · near
Orange Grove · near
$52,237 median HH income
- Sandia · highest
Sandia · highest
$102,135 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, Ben Bolt, TX sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- 6th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 386
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $40,739
- 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.
Lower-income footing on only 1 ZIP ($40,739 average) · poverty 18.8%. The primary code (78342) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (62.1%) for this income tier, rent - may matter more than the home-value average.
Within Texas, Realitos is the closest lower-income city and Morton the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Ben Bolt.
ZIP Codes in Ben Bolt, TX
These ZIP codes sit in Jim Wells County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Ben Bolt. See the Jim Wells County roll-up →
Every one of the 4 cities sharing Jim Wells County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Ben Bolt, Alice, Orange Grove and Sandia among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Sandia marks the far end of that range at $102,135, 151% above Ben Bolt.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 78342 | 386 | 83 | America/Chicago |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Ben Bolt, 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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