City safety & data profile

OrangeTX

Orange, TX is a 19K-resident city in Orange County with a median household income of $62,891.

Orange County, Texas. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Orange, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Orange has a population larger than 42% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, and a median home value of $164,900.

Data updated 2026-09-04

19K
Population (place)
Bottom 43%
By size
$62,891
Median income (place)
$164,900
Median home (place)
15.4%
Poverty rate (place)
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The read on Orange

Orange posts a median household income higher than 27% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks.

Bottom 28%
by median income, US cities

Where Orange income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$62,891 Bottom 27% higher than 27% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Orange $0 $260,000 every profiled place, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Largest cities in TX

Population among 244 TX places with 10,000+ residents and ACS income on Areazine. Tooltip shows the income rank in the same pool.

residents

What this shows Houston is the largest TX city on this list; Southlake leads median income.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

Highest median incomes in TX

Median household income among the same 244-city pool. Tooltip shows the population rank.

median

What this shows Southlake posts the highest place-level median income in TX; Houston is largest by headcount.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) As of 2024 ACS 5-year

The quick read

Reading Orange, TX beyond the headline numbers

Orange sits inside Orange County, Texas, at roughly 30.09°N, -93.74°W. Population 19,347, $62,891 median household income. Median home value $164,900, median rent $1,108. Poverty rate 15.4%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

Poverty in Orange, TX stands at 15.4%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.

Housing is inexpensive against local pay -- the median home in Orange runs about 2.6 years of median household income, in the cheapest quarter of reporting cities.

Only 3.3% of Orange workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.

Among the CDC measures on this page, short sleep duration departs furthest from its peer median: 45.6% in Orange, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,852 cities reporting that measure.

Orange's median age is 35.3 years, in the youngest quarter of reporting cities.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Orange from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)
19,347
Orange · Census Place
Median Income (place)
$62,891
-30% vs avg
Median Home Value (place)
$164,900
-60% vs avg
Median Age (place)
35.3
years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Orange County): Orange's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024
Population
85K+4%
Median Income
$72,104+46%
Median Home Value
$173,400+89%
Poverty Rate
12.5%-13%
Unemployment
6%-35%

Economics

Economics indicators for Orange, TX
IndicatorValue
Median Rent
$1,108/mo
Poverty Rate
15.4% +24% vs avg
Unemployment 7.7%
Bachelor's Degree+ 18.6%
Work From Home 3.3%
Public Transit 0.3%

Population

White 56.2%
African American 28%
Asian 0.7%
Two or More Ethnicities 5.9%

Health Profile 14 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration
45.6%
Obesity
42.1%
High Blood Pressure
41.3%
Physical Inactivity
31.8%
Frequent Mental Distress
19.4%
Current Smoking
16.7%
Frequent Physical Distress
15.5%
Diabetes
15.4%
Binge Drinking
15.1%
Lack of Health Insurance
15%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 49.5%
Annual Checkup 76.6%

Other Measures

Coronary Heart Disease
7.4%
Stroke
4.6%

What alerts and safety updates affect Orange?

No area-tagged alerts are on record for Orange right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.

City alert dispatch desk

Sheet TX-ORANGE-TX · Orange

Orange: 13 tagged alerts; lead category NWS weather alert.

  • VOL-ACTIVE 13 on record
  • WX-LED 54% weather
  • DESK-MIX NOAA · CPSC/FDA/NHTSA
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Victoria

Tagged alert mix: Orange

Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag

Value

What this shows 13 tagged notices on record for Orange.

Source Areazine publication corpus As of Live tagged feed

Nearest tagged-volume peer: Victoria, TX (13 tagged · Δ0)

Counts reflect published articles tagged to Orange; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Texas state hubs · Methodology

Cities with a similar tagged alert volume 4

Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (13 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.

Victoria, TX 13 alerts Phoenix, AZ 15 alerts California, MD 15 alerts El Paso, TX 16 alerts

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Frequently Asked Questions 5

What is the population of Orange, TX? ▼
Orange, TX has a population of 19,347 people, located in Orange County, Texas.
What is the median household income in Orange? ▼
The median household income in Orange, TX is $62,891 per year, per the U.S. Census ACS. The poverty rate is 15.4%.
What is the median home value in Orange? ▼
The median home value in Orange, TX is $164,900. Median rent is $1,108/month.
What are the top health concerns in Orange? ▼
The top health indicators in Orange include Short Sleep Duration (45.6%), Obesity (42.1%), High Blood Pressure (41.3%). Data from CDC PLACES.
What is the median age in Orange? ▼
The median age in Orange, TX is 35.3 years. 18.6% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher.

Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8

Two ACS-derived peer sets for Orange, both outside Texas so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.

Similar poverty rate

Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside TX (15.4% here).

Washington, DC 15.4% Kenner, LA 15.4% Lawrenceville, GA 15.4% Lodi, NJ 15.4%

Similar median income

Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside TX ($62,891 here).

Sheridan, WY $62,867 Sheboygan, WI $62,927 Celina, OH $62,849 Seven Oaks, SC $62,955

Compare Orange with another city

Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.

Quick picks:

Nearby Cities 8

Groves, TX 16K Port Neches, TX 13K Vidor, TX 11K Nederland, TX 17K Port Arthur, TX 55K Beaumont, TX 115K Sulphur, LA 20K Lumberton, TX 12K
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Using Orange's profile

Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.

  • Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the Orange area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
  • Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
  • Compare Orange against Texas peers on any ranking lens. Explore Texas

Population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) are place-level U.S. Census ACS; health is CDC PLACES; hospital counts reflect facilities in and around the city. County-level trends are labeled when shown.

Data Sources

All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Orange County) where that is the smallest published unit.

Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026.