Mapping cost of living across 32 Texas cities
TEXAS – Home affordability rankings for 32 large and midsize Texas cities have been released by fixr, according to Texas Monthly.
Cities are grouped into affordability brackets — based on annual household income and realistic cost of living — and then sorted by discretionary income, which is the yearly amount remaining from earnings after covered expenses.
Annual household income draws on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the realistic cost of living derives from our formula of seven factors — housing, food, utilities, child care, taxes, health care and transportation. The full methodology is available here.
Below are the top three cities for a working class family, middle class couple, and upper middle class family.
| City | Income | Expenses | Discretionary Income |
| Killeen | $60,200 | $57,468 | $2,733 |
| Wichita Falls | $60,200 | $57,952 | $2,249 |
| Abilene | $60,200 | $58,327 | $1,874 |
| City | Income | Expenses | Discretionary Income |
| Killeen | $87,701 | $54,768 | $32,934 |
| Mesquite | $90,540 | $58,731 | $31,810 |
| Fort Worth | $90,513 | $58,794 | $31,719 |
| City | Income | Expenses | Discretionary Income |
| Houston | $233,553 | $160,017 | $73,537 |
| Pasadena | $232,411 | $159,332 | $73,080 |
| Beaumont | $216,700 | $147,376 | $69,325 |
See more categories, cities and full rankings with explanations at fixr.
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