Shamrock, TX
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Shamrock, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 2,646. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet SHAMROCK-TX · Shamrock, TX 1 ZIPs · 2,646 pop · #21394/25278 · Wheeler County
INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-VILLAGE · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-MID $51,250
- RANK-BOTTOM #21394/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Briscoe
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-MID 75% owners
- POP-VILLAGE 2,646
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $92,500
Nearest income peer: Briscoe, TX (+ $3,125 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 Shamrock
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Shamrock on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Shamrock · this city · lowest
Shamrock · this city · lowest
$51,250 median HH income
- Briscoe · near
Briscoe · near
$54,375 median HH income
- Wheeler · near
Wheeler · near
$67,165 median HH income
- Allison · near
Allison · near
$73,125 median HH income
- Mobeetie · highest
Mobeetie · highest
$99,861 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, Shamrock, 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.
- 15th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 2,646
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $51,250
- 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 ($51,250 average) · poverty 17.8%. The primary code (79079) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (75.2%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Shamrock as a pure owner town.
Within Texas, Nacogdoches is the closest lower-income city and Big Wells the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 3 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Shamrock.
ZIP Codes in Shamrock, TX
These ZIP codes sit in Wheeler County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Shamrock. See the Wheeler County roll-up →
Every one of the 4 cities sharing Wheeler County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Shamrock, Wheeler, Mobeetie and Briscoe among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Mobeetie marks the far end of that range at $99,861, 95% above Shamrock.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79079 | 2,646 | 2 | America/Chicago |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Shamrock, 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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