Sweetwater, TX
Single-footprint Census roll-up for Sweetwater, TX: 1 USPS ZIP, population 12,995. Open the primary ZIP for household income, housing tenure, and commute from ACS 2023 5-Year Estimates.
Source:
ACS city ledger plate
Sheet SWEETWATER-TX · Sweetwater, TX 1 ZIPs · 12,995 pop · #21959/25278 · Nolan County
INC-MID · RANK-BOTTOM · BELOW-PEER · BOOK-ONE · OWN-MID · POP-TOWN · SPREAD-UNK · HOME-LOW
- INC-MID $49,393
- RANK-BOTTOM #21959/25278
- BELOW-PEER under Roscoe
- BOOK-ONE 1 ZIP
- OWN-MID 66% owners
- POP-TOWN 12,995
- SPREAD-UNK Single-ZIP book
- HOME-LOW $94,900
Nearest income peer: Roscoe, TX (+ $9,089 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 Sweetwater
Lowest/highest poles plus county-sharing cities nearest Sweetwater on average ZIP median household income. Full ladder: /cities.
- Sweetwater · this city · lowest
Sweetwater · this city · lowest
$49,393 median HH income
- Roscoe · near
Roscoe · near
$58,482 median HH income
- Blackwell · near
Blackwell · near
$63,942 median HH income
- Maryneal · near
Maryneal · near
$68,036 median HH income
- Nolan · highest
Nolan · highest
$97,917 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, Sweetwater, TX sits among US cities with one of the lowest household incomes among US cities, on a town-scale population base, across a single-ZIP footprint.
- 13th pct
- household income vs 25,278 US cities
- 12,995
- city population (Census)
- 1
- USPS ZIP codes covered
- $49,393
- 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 ($49,393 average) · poverty 23.7%. The primary code (79556) carries the ACS household fields that matter.
Owner-occupancy sits in a mixed band (66.0%) - check the ZIP page's tenure split before treating Sweetwater as a pure owner town.
Within Texas, La Feria is the closest lower-income city and Turkey the closest higher-income city by average ZIP household income. Their 1 and 1 ZIP footprints are the immediate statewide comparison set for Sweetwater.
ZIP Codes in Sweetwater, TX
These ZIP codes sit in Nolan County, which covers 5 ZIP codes in all; 1 of them fall in Sweetwater. See the Nolan County roll-up →
Every one of the 4 cities sharing Nolan County reports a higher average ZIP median income than Sweetwater, Roscoe, Blackwell and Maryneal among them. That gap is the county's income spread, not a measure of the housing or commute picture below. Nolan marks the far end of that range at $97,917, 98% above Sweetwater.
| ZIP Code | Population | Density | Timezone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79556 | 12,995 | 17 | America/Chicago |
On a short ZIP footprint the city roll-up and the primary ZIP nearly coincide. Start at the Census ACS tables for Sweetwater, 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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