South · Texas · pop 317K
Corpus Christi, TX
Fair match
at the reference profile: one person earning $6,700/mo gross, default weights.
Personalize this score →After estimated taxes in TX, your $6,700/mo income nets about $5,412 — covering estimated essentials here (about $1,105 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,887 left over.
Expect summer highs near 93°F, winter lows around 49°F, and about 223 sunny days a year.
Home prices are within reach relative to local pay — the median home ($230,000) is about 3.7× the median household income.
Tradeoff: the local job market is softer than most on this list (4.6% unemployment).
The Corpus Christi fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,525/mo
Typical rent
$1,300/mo
Home value ÷ income
3.7×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,150/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,300/mo
- Median home value
- $230,000
- Median household income
- $63,000
- Population
- 317,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 1.0%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 650
- Property crime rate
- 2,900
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 93°F
- Avg. winter low
- 49°F
- Sunny days / year
- 223
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈16/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈140/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈8/yr
- Annual rain
- 32"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- R+12
- Int'l airport
- ≈8 mi
- Walkability
- 35/100
- Disaster risk
- 82/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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