Buffalo Gap, TX

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Buffalo Gap, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 1,242. 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 BUFFALO-GAP-TX · Buffalo Gap, TX 1 ZIPs · 1,242 pop · #3686/25278 · Taylor County

INC-HIGH · RANK-TOP · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-MID

  • INC-HIGH $105,000
  • RANK-TOP #3686/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Tuscola
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 93% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 1,242
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-MID $210,000

Nearest income peer: Tuscola, TX (+ $4,572 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 Buffalo Gap

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Buffalo Gap 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, Buffalo Gap, TX sits among US cities with an upper-quartile household income, on a village-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.

Top 15%
household income vs 25,278 US cities
1,242
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$105,000
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.

High-income footprint on only 1 ZIP: the city page and the ZIP page nearly coincide. Headline income $105,000 and home value $210,000 should be read as near-neighborhood numbers ; bachelor's attainment averages 32.4%.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (92.7%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Texas, Anna is the closest lower-income city and Thrall the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Buffalo Gap.

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ZIP Codes in Buffalo Gap, TX

These ZIP codes sit in Taylor County, which covers 15 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Buffalo Gap. See the Taylor County roll-up →

Buffalo Gap sits in the upper half of Taylor County on income: Abilene, Merkel and Dyess Afb report less, while Tuscola reports more. Tye marks the far end of that range at $49,276, 53% below Buffalo Gap.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
79508 1,242 40 America/Chicago

On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Buffalo Gap, 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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