78102Beeville, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 78102.

46out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 7% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity4962nd of 6,210 published ZIP areas40
Schools3424th of 4,422 published ZIP areas30
Growth4675th of 5,428 published ZIP areas28
Housing affordabilityTop 30% of 6,685 published ZIP areas91
ClimateTop 20% of 6,789 published ZIP areas78
Physical resilience5696th of 6,709 published ZIP areas21
Access6213th of 6,791 published ZIP areas65
Economic stability6555th of 6,742 published ZIP areas20
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published ZIP profiles: unemployment is 5.6% and the Opportunity signal places 78102 in the bottom 20%.

Residential permitting has slowed: 13 units authorized over the past twelve months, 32% below the prior year.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by hurricane, cold wave and drought.

At a glance

Population
27,455
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$58,939
Bottom 28% nationally
Density
52/sq mi
526.3 sq mi of land
Median age
35.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Beeville
Texas
Metro area
Beeville, TX
Nearest major airport
VCT
57 mi · Victoria Rgnl
Median home value
$111,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.6% is lower than 13% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.7% over the past year, to 9,606 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,451$58,939Bottom 28%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,937$23,219Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate19.3%Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute23.1 minBottom 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher13.7%Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment9,606Bottom 2%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.4%Top 32%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.7%Top 17%June 2026
Labor force10,174Bottom 2%June 2026
Labor force participation44.2%Bottom 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)0.6%Top 27%June 2026
Unemployment rate5.6%Top 13%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202460k50k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $58,939 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Beeville, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

24% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 35% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.9 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.9
across all schools here
Math proficiency
23.6%
Bottom 17% in Texas
Reading proficiency
35.4%
Bottom 36% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
A C JONES H SBEEVILLE ISD96914.0
MORENO J HBEEVILLE ISD68215.212%37%
FADDEN-MCKEOWN-CHAMBLISS ELBEEVILLE ISD57416.927%26%
R A HALL ELBEEVILLE ISD46317.139%42%
HAMPTON-MORENO-DUGAT EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERBEEVILLE ISD34520.3
ST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL · charterST MARY'S ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL28216.619%40%

82.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,078 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 1.9 times median household income here, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
21.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
1.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,078
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$111,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income1.88Bottom 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate69.7%Bottom 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2818,935Top 18%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$108$1,078Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,155$111,000Bottom 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.9%Top 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate16.6%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →
Development Momentum
28/ 100
Ranks 4675 of 5,428 published city profiles

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 1.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
13
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
1.0
Bottom 25% nationally
Year over year
−32%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Beeville, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 44°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 31.9 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station BEEVILLE 5 NE, 3.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.1"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation31.9"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low44°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing30°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

21 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, cold wave and drought.

HurricaneElevated
DroughtHigh
Cold waveModerate
LightningModerate
Strong windModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, tornado, wildfire, hail, ice storm, inland flooding, winter weather, earthquake, landslide.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Bee County records 6.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 12.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 14.4 per 100,000 residents in Bee County.

Homicide
6.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
12.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
14.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
32.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Bee County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around 78102 rather than 78102 itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 57 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Victoria RgnlVCT57 mi9,111 ft
San Antonio IntlSAT90 mi8,505 ft
Laredo IntlLRD122 mi8,743 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2019-20 school year; 2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

78102 vs Beeville

How this ZIP area compares with Beeville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

78102
Beeville
Median household income
$58,939
vs
$50,784
Per capita income
$23,219
vs
$24,177
Population density
52/sq mi
vs
2,102/sq mi
Median home value
$111,000
vs
$94,700
Median gross rent
$1,078
vs
$1,061
Homeownership rate
69.7%
vs
58.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.7%
vs
15.1%
Poverty rate
19.3%
vs
22.1%
Median age
35.7
vs
31.9

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.