Canyon Lake, Texas

Area Profile

33,883 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Canyon Lake, in Comal County.

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How this area ranks
SchoolsTop 12% of 2,668 published cities81
Housing affordabilityTop 34% of 4,223 published cities89
ClimateTop 45% of 4,223 published cities71
Physical resilienceTop 32% of 4,182 published cities73
Access3059th of 4,226 published cities84
Economic stability3009th of 4,226 published cities48
The quick read

Rent takes 16% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 4.0 times that income.

A typical July reaches 96°F and a typical January falls to 40°F, on thirty-year normals.

Natural-hazard exposure sits in the middle range of published city profiles, with hail, wildfire and drought the hazards that carry it.

At a glance

Population
33,883
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$97,301
Top 20% nationally
Density
237/sq mi
142.7 sq mi of land
Median age
48.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Comal County
Texas
Metro area
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
Nearest major airport
SAT
27 mi · San Antonio Intl
Median home value
$389,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

36% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 78% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$5,028$97,301Top 20%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,367$52,878Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate7.3%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute40.9 minTop 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher36.3%Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation55.4%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,140Bottom 19%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,010Bottom 16%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202497k81k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $97,301 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.
Largest occupations — San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers40,040$27,810
Customer Service Representatives34,730$42,720
Home Health and Personal Care Aides31,420$25,960
General and Operations Managers30,560$99,790
Retail Salespersons27,580$30,960
Stockers and Order Fillers27,440$37,360

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

60% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 55% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.5 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
16
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.5
across all schools here
Math proficiency
59.8%
Top 9% in Texas
Reading proficiency
54.5%
Top 15% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
SMITHSON VALLEY H SCOMAL ISD2,09815.5
CANYON LAKE H SCOMAL ISD1,06614.0
OAKRUN MIDDLENEW BRAUNFELS ISD1,01316.952%27%
VERAMENDI ELNEW BRAUNFELS ISD93517.361%60%
DANVILLE MIDDLECOMAL ISD92116.262%52%
SMITHSON VALLEY MIDDLECOMAL ISD88018.072%67%
BILL BROWN ELCOMAL ISD79916.059%62%
MT VALLEY MIDDLECOMAL ISD78115.372%57%
HOFFMANN LANE ELCOMAL ISD70517.279%82%
MORNINGSIDE ELCOMAL ISD66515.144%32%
ARLON R SEAY ELCOMAL ISD62316.464%62%
SPRING BRANCH MIDDLECOMAL ISD60415.162%57%

29.4% 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 $1,327 takes 16% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
16.4%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,327
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$389,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.00Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate87.1%Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±64915,565Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$213$1,327Top 27%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$25,911$389,300Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income16.4%Bottom 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.8%Top 40%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 →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 96°F and January a low of 40°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 31.3 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station AUSTIN SAN ANTONIO, 18.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation31.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low40°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high96°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing33°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

73 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hail, wildfire and drought.

HailModerate
WildfireModerate
DroughtModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: inland flooding, tornado, winter weather, lightning, heat wave, strong wind, cold wave, hurricane, ice storm, earthquake.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. 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.

Comal County records 2.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 14.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 11.3 per 100,000 residents in Comal County.

Homicide
2.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
11.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
19.1
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 Comal 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 Canyon Lake rather than Canyon Lake 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 27 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
San Antonio IntlSAT27 mi8,505 ft
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS42 mi12,250 ft
Victoria RgnlVCT107 mi9,111 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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Other cities in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
San AntonioBexar County1,479,83557vs Canyon Lake
New BraunfelsGuadalupe County104,64372vs Canyon Lake
SchertzBexar County44,05069vs Canyon Lake
Timberwood ParkBexar County35,413vs Canyon Lake
CiboloGuadalupe County35,10972vs Canyon Lake
SeguinGuadalupe County33,75464vs Canyon Lake
ConverseBexar County29,60762vs Canyon Lake
BoerneKendall County20,51869vs Canyon Lake
Universal CityBexar County20,18962vs Canyon Lake
Live OakBexar County15,98463vs Canyon Lake
SelmaBexar County11,50365vs Canyon Lake
Leon ValleyBexar County11,44661vs Canyon Lake

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

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
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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.

ZIP codes in Canyon Lake

4 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7813240,953$135,315
7813321,959$83,853
7807020,200$115,175
786231,645$116,923