South · Texas · pop 2.3M
Houston, 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 $1,190 rent plus everyday costs incl. local sales tax) with roughly $1,802 left over.
Expect summer highs near 94°F, winter lows around 45°F, and about 204 sunny days a year.
There's plenty to do — roughly 25 restaurants, arts, and recreation spots per 10k residents.
Tradeoff: reported crime rates are higher than most cities here, so research specific neighborhoods before deciding.
The Houston fit print
Est. monthly cost
$3,610/mo
Typical rent
$1,400/mo
Home value ÷ income
4.4×
Score breakdown
The data behind the score
Money (Census ACS · HUD)
- Median gross rent
- $1,290/mo
- HUD fair market rent (2BR)
- $1,400/mo
- Median home value
- $275,000
- Median household income
- $62,000
- Population
- 2,300,000
Work (BLS)
- Unemployment rate
- 4.3%
- Job growth (1yr)
- 2.3%
Safety (FBI CDE, per 100k)
- Violent crime rate
- 1,100
- Property crime rate
- 4,100
Climate (NOAA normals)
- Avg. summer high
- 94°F
- Avg. winter low
- 45°F
- Sunny days / year
- 204
- Days ≥100°F by 2050 (air temp)
- ≈15/yr
- Dangerous humid days by 2050 (feels-like)
- ≈135/yr
- Unhealthy air days
- ≈26/yr
- Annual rain
- 50"
- Annual snow
- 0"
Community & access (approx.)
- 2024 county margin
- D+6
- Int'l airport
- ≈23 mi
- Walkability
- 47/100
- Disaster risk
- 85/100
Data vintage: sample-approx-2024. Sources & methodology — this deployment is running the bundled sample dataset; figures are approximate.
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