Big Bend National Park, TX

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Big Bend National Park, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 200. 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 BIG-BEND-NATIONAL-PARK-TX · Big Bend National Park, TX 1 ZIPs · 200 pop · #21890/25278 · Brewster County

INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · ABOVE-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-RENT · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-UNK

  • INC-MID $49,617
  • RANK-BOTTOM #21890/25278
  • ABOVE-PEER over Marathon
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-RENT 2% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 200
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-UNK Homes pending

Nearest income peer: Marathon, TX ( $4,021 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 Big Bend National Park

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Big Bend National Park on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.

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.

Source U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 5-Year Estimates As of 2026-08-06

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Big Bend National Park, 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.

13th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
200
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$49,617
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 ($49,617 average) · poverty 4.5%. The primary code (79834) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy is comparatively low (1.6%) for this income tier, rent $834 may matter more than the home-value average.

Within Texas, Bloomington is the closest lower-income city and Loraine the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Big Bend National Park.

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ZIP Codes in Big Bend National Park, TX

These ZIP codes sit in Brewster County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Big Bend National Park. See the Brewster County roll-up →

Big Bend National Park sits in the upper half of Brewster County on income: Terlingua and Marathon report less, while Alpine reports more. Alpine marks the far end of that range at $66,546, 34% above Big Bend National Park.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
79834 200 0 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Big Bend National Park, 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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