South · Texas · pop 250K
Garland, TX
Good 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 $1,318 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,674 left over.
Expect summer highs near 96°F, winter lows around 35°F, and about 232 sunny days a year.
Reported crime rates sit below most cities in this dataset.
Tradeoff: this is a quieter market with fewer restaurants and entertainment options per resident.
The Garland fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,738/mo
Typical rent
$1,550/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,350/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,550/mo
- Median home value
- $300,000
- Median household income
- $68,000
- Population
- 250,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.3%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.0%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 330
- Property crime rate
- 2,400
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 96°F
- Avg. winter low
- 35°F
- Sunny days / year
- 232
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈47/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈80/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈17/yr
- Annual rain
- 39"
- Annual snow
- 1"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+25
- Int'l airport
- ≈28 mi
- Walkability
- 35/100
- Disaster risk
- 68/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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