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Santa Elena, TX

Single-footprint Census roll-up for Santa Elena, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 265. 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 SANTA-ELENA-TX · Santa Elena, TX 1 ZIPs · 265 pop · #24435/25278 · Starr County

INC-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-HIGH · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-UNK

  • INC-LOW $35,750
  • RANK-BOTTOM #24435/25278
  • BELOW-PEER under Grulla
  • BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
  • OWN-HIGH 90% owners
  • POP-VILLAGE 265
  • SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
  • HOME-UNK Homes pending

Nearest income peer: Grulla, TX (+ $1,558 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 Santa Elena

Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Santa Elena 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 2026-08-25

National city placement

According to ACS 5-Year Estimates, Santa Elena, 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.

3rd pct
household income vs 25,278 US cities
265
city population (Census)
1
USPS ZIP codes covered
$35,750
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 ($35,750 average) · poverty 28.5%. The primary code (78591) carries the ACS household fields that matter.

Owner-occupancy here runs high (89.5%) - tenure is stable enough that the ZIP detail's owner share is the right next click, not a renter-heavy compare.

Within Texas, Austwell is the closest lower-income city and Mumford the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Santa Elena.

Population concentration

Santa Elena reads through its lone ZIP, 78591

265 ACS residents, one ZIP: 78591 is not the leading code inside Santa Elena, it is the only one on file. Treat the ZIP page as the primary source for anything below the city-wide total.

Census ZBP business roll-up

No ZBP establishments filed for Santa Elena's ZIPs

Census County Business Patterns has no establishment rows joined to the ACS ZIPs mapped to Santa Elena. Read demography on this page; business counts are absent for this footprint.

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ZIP Codes in Santa Elena, TX

These ZIP codes sit in Starr County, which covers 8 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Santa Elena. See the Starr County roll-up →

Santa Elena lands mid-pack among the 6 cities sharing Starr County: Rio Grande City, Grulla and San Isidro earn more and Roma, Falcon Heights and Delmita earn less. San Isidro marks the far end of that range at $94,821, 165% above Santa Elena.

ZIP Code Population Median income Establishments Density
78591 265 $35,750 n/a 1
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