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College Station, TX
128,023 people, 2024 · Census GEOID 4815976 · Census profile · mayors: being verified
Overall in 2023, College Station ranked #146 of 340 cities and 7th of 14 in its peer group, on 9 of 9 measures. Weigh the measures yourself · how ranks are made
Its peer group is College Station and the 13 cities most like it in 2005 (size, income, poverty, industry, growth, density, place), fixed since: Lansing MI, Gainesville FL, Burbank CA, League City TX, Ann Arbor MI, Palm Bay FL, New Haven CT, Albany NY, Springfield IL, Rochester MN, Athens GA, Brownsville TX, Everett WA · on the map, and why
| Topline | 2005–2024 | Latest rank | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Overall rankamong all cities with a score that year | #146 of 340 cities · 7th of 14 in its peer group · 2023 | #216 | #117 | #143 | #99 | #113 | #103 | #136 | #202 | #136 | #171 | #47 | #76 | #62 | #62 | #103 | #81 | #84 | #90 | #146 | #130 | |
| people · size, not ranked | 79,725 | 82,857 | 85,312 | 88,435 | 91,852 | 94,666 | 95,671 | 97,761 | 100,601 | 103,469 | 108,952 | 111,068 | 114,483 | 116,035 | 117,911 | 120,779 | 122,696 | 124,587 | 126,838 | 128,023 | ||
| net movers per 100 residents · estimate · higher is better | #271 of 340 cities · 11th of 14 in its peer group | -0.0 | +1.0 | +0.0 | +0.8 | +1.4 | — | -0.6 | -0.1 | +0.4 | +0.7 | +1.7 | +0.1 | +0.4 | -0.3 | +0.4 | +0.1 | +0.6 | +0.9 | +0.4 | -0.8 | |
| new homes per 1,000 residents · higher is better | #41 of 271 cities with data · 3rd of 9 in its peer group with data | 13.2 | 12.9 | 18.8 | 15.6 | 5.8 | 7.4 | 10.6 | 13.4 | 10.0 | 14.8 | 11.1 | 17.1 | 16.7 | 8.9 | 5.2 | 9.6 | 8.1 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 8.7 | |
| rent as % of income · lower is better | #300 of 340 cities · 11th of 14 in its peer group | 33.7% | 28.8% | 24.7% | 25.2% | 40.8% | 30.4% | 40.5% | 30.9% | 32.8% | 30.3% | 28.9% | 28.5% | 25.7% | 23.1% | 23.1% | — | 25.2% | 26.6% | 29.8% | 29.0% | |
| per 100,000 residents · lower is better | #72 of 304 cities with data · 3rd of 13 in its peer group with data | 2.5 | — | 1.2 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 1.0 | 3.1 | — | — | 1.8 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 2.3 | |
| per 100,000 residents · lower is better | #70 of 295 cities with data · 3rd of 14 in its peer group | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22.1 | 29.8 | 38.3 | 32.1 | 30.7 | 24.2 | |
| jobs · size, not ranked | 45,376 | 50,870 | 49,147 | 49,611 | 51,169 | 54,644 | 55,605 | 52,365 | 55,819 | 55,268 | 61,189 | 64,344 | 64,766 | 66,922 | 64,850 | 59,810 | 58,952 | 57,122 | 56,421 | — | ||
| points ahead of the metro · higher is better | #321 of 329 cities with data · 12th of 12 in its peer group with data · 2023 | -4.7 | +5.0 | -2.4 | -1.3 | +1.2 | +3.2 | +0.5 | -5.6 | +1.5 | -3.9 | +6.3 | +1.8 | -2.1 | -0.2 | -2.1 | -2.6 | -2.2 | -10.1 | -4.8 | — | |
| people · size, not ranked | — | — | — | — | — | — | 45,646 | 43,242 | 49,532 | 48,854 | 54,260 | 53,666 | 53,981 | 54,082 | 57,872 | — | 59,614 | 63,101 | 61,332 | 59,413 | ||
| % of workforce · lower is better | #178 of 340 cities · 7th of 14 in its peer group | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8.4% | 8.8% | 6.3% | 5.7% | 2.1% | 5.7% | 3.4% | 4.1% | 4.5% | — | 5.0% | 3.8% | 5.8% | 5.0% | |
| % of promises funded · not ranked: 38 cities report | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| surplus as % of revenue · higher is better | #24 of 314 cities with data · 2nd of 14 in its peer group | 12% | 4% | 4% | 7% | 5% | 3% | 3% | 10% | 9% | 14% | 20% | 28% | 24% | 26% | 31% | 30% | 29% | 37% | 38% | 42% | |
| dollars per resident · lower is better | #219 of 314 cities with data · 9th of 14 in its peer group | $3,172 | $3,157 | $3,348 | $3,339 | $3,566 | $3,704 | $3,662 | $3,385 | $3,233 | $3,098 | $3,434 | $3,067 | $3,118 | $3,636 | $3,652 | $4,068 | $3,774 | $3,501 | $3,547 | $3,797 |
Click a row for its source and its rank in every year. 1st is best whichever way the measure points. A rank is out of all 340 cities, or out of its peer group of 14; where some had no value that year it says “with data” and counts only those. An em dash is a year the source does not hold for College Station. A greyed homicide figure is a year the FBI holds as a transition year for this department. What each row is, and is not, is on the main page, with a link to every source in Sources.