Dickens, TX

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Dickens, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 424. 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 DICKENS-TX · Dickens, TX 1 ZIPs · 424 pop · #22458/25278 · Dickens County

INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW

  • INC-MID $47,583
  • RANK-BOTTOM #22458/25278
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Spur
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 90% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 424
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-LOW $43,200

Nearest income peer: Spur, TX (+ $1,167 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 Dickens

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Dickens 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, Dickens, 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.

11th pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
424
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$47,583
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 ($47,583 average) · poverty 17.0%. The primary code (79229) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (90.1%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Texas, Menard is the closest lower-income city and San Diego the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Dickens.

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ZIP Codes in Dickens, TX

These ZIP codes sit in Dickens County, which covers 4 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Dickens. See the Dickens County roll-up →

Every one of the 3 cities sharing Dickens County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Dickens, Afton and Mcadoo among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Mcadoo marks the far end of that range at $61,250, 29% above Dickens.

ZIP Code Population Density Timezone
79229 424 1 America/Chicago

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