Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas

Area Profile

10,728 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Fair Oaks Ranch, in Kendall County.

70out of 100
Area Score
Top 14% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 14 sources
OpportunityTop 9% of 4,199 cities measured79
SchoolsTop 5% of 4,162 cities measured87
Growth2,225th of 4,224 cities measured49
Housing affordabilityTop 38% of 4,218 cities measured71
ClimateTop 37% of 4,225 cities measured73
Physical resilience2,247th of 4,226 cities measured55
Access2,196th of 4,226 cities measured92
Economic stabilityTop 50% of 4,226 cities measured58
The quick read

Fair Oaks Ranch ranks in the top 9% of cities measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.9% and median household income of $174,327. The unemployment rate is published for Kendall County, TX, which contains Fair Oaks Ranch, rather than for Fair Oaks Ranch alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 71% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 5% of published profiles for schools.

Residential permitting has slowed: 23 units authorized over the past twelve months, 56% below the prior year.

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At a glance

Population
10,728
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$174,327
Top 2% nationally
Density
875/sq mi
12.3 sq mi of land
Median age
46.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Texas
Nearest major airport
SAT
18 mi · San Antonio Intl
Median home value
$657,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Kendall County, TX, which contains Fair Oaks Ranch, is 3.9%, lower than in 65% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Kendall County, TX, which contains Fair Oaks Ranch, fell 0.3% over the past year, to 23,713 employed residents.

67% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 96% of measured US cities.

Median household income of $174,327 is higher than in 98% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$20,5562024 ACS 5-Year$174,327Top 2%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$17,5592024 ACS 5-Year$90,770Top 3%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.3%Top 13%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±4.1 min2024 ACS 5-Year37.3 minBottom 11%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year67.5%Top 4%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year58.3%11th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentKendall County, TX’s figureJuly 202623,713Bottom 28%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Kendall County, TX’s figureJuly 2026+3.7%Top 10%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Kendall County, TX’s figureJuly 2026−0.3%Top 39%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceKendall County, TX’s figureJuly 202624,68128th percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year70.0%Bottom 27%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageSan Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$61,140Bottom 19%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Median annual wageSan Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$47,010Bottom 16%of 3,7292025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.5%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Kendall County, TX’s figureJuly 2026+0.2%Bottom 32%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateKendall County, TX’s figureJuly 20263.9%Top 35%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±7%2024 ACS 5-Year33.5%96th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

2021202220232024174k128k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $174,327 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

Searches the 40 largest occupations here that have a published wage.

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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Kendall County, TX, which contains this city.

71% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 72% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.6 students for every full-time teacher across 2 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
71.2%
Top 4% in Texas
Reading proficiency
71.8%
Top 4% in Texas
All 2 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Fair Oaks Ranch ElBOERNE ISD82116.875%78%
Van Raub ElBOERNE ISD75914.667%65%

11.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

Prices for everything a household buys run about 6% below the national average — the Bureau of Economic Analysis index reads 94.3, against 100 for the nation. Nationally, housing drives most of the spread between places in this index; other goods vary far less.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area is up 29% over five years, but down 0.5% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,870, below the $2,108 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,870 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $74,800 a year, about 43% of the median household income here of $174,327.

The typical renter household here spends 28% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $2,108 a month.

A median home at $657,600 costs 3.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $180,523, above the historic benchmark of about 3 times income.

Cost of living
94.3

Prices here run about 6% below the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Published for the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area as a whole. Prices are regional — people shop, commute and rent across a metropolitan area rather than within a city boundary — so this describes the cost of living around this place better than a figure drawn to its own limits would.

Rent as a share of income
27.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,870
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$2,108
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$657,600
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Fair Oaks Ranch’s median household income of $174,327, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living indexthe San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure202394.3Top 23%of 3,7002023
Home price change (1 year)the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.5%4th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+29.3%15th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+79.7%26th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.52024 ACS 5-Year3.6Bottom 22%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±14%2024 ACS 5-Year97.3%89th percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4192024 ACS 5-Year3,99186th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,530Bottom 41%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,390Bottom 38%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,870Bottom 38%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$9042024 ACS 5-Year$2,108Bottom 6%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$39,8122024 ACS 5-Year$657,60094th percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes2024 ACS 5-Year$10,000+—2024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$20,2782024 ACS 5-Year$180,523Top 3%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±26%2024 ACS 5-Year27.6%Top 46%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±432024 ACS 5-Year2675th percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.7%58th percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year5.9%44th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2312024 ACS 5-Year26382nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures and the cost-of-living index.

Development Momentum

49/ 100
Ranks 2,225 of 4,224 published city profiles
The most recent move in permitting was downward, in a series running from 2020 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

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.

Population has grown 18% since 2020, reaching 11,744 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before: 26 units authorized in 2025, 72% below the prior year.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 11,744 residents in 2024, up 2.4% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 23 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

At 2.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
23
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.1
Bottom 44% nationally
Year over year
−56%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202412k10k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 4 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

Housing units permitted per year

20202021202220232024202521626
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2020 (−86%).

Weather & climate

7 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 95°F and January a low of 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 32.4 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SAN ANTONIO INTL AP, 16.7 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals32.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals0.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals71991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals33°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

55 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, tornado and hail, with inland flooding alone responsible for 66% of it. Tornado is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

HailElevated
WildfireModerate
Inland floodingModerate
DroughtModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, winter weather, strong wind, heat wave, cold wave, hurricane, ice storm, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic activity, coastal flooding, avalanche.

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.

Violent crime
16
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
523
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Fair Oaks Ranch's police department reported 16 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, lower than most places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 523.

Kendall County has a modeled homicide rate of about 3.3 per 100,000 residents a year, because the CDC suppresses counts this small, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 19.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 13.4 per 100,000 residents in Kendall County.

Homicide
3.3
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Firearm deaths, all intents
19.8
per 100,000 residents
Drug overdose
13.4
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
25.7
per 100,000 residents

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Fair Oaks Ranch’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Fair Oaks Ranch (Kendall County) rather than Fair Oaks Ranch itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. The cost-of-living index above is a price level for all consumption, not a household budget, and it excludes taxes. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest San Antonio Intl at 18 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±14%2024 ACS 5-Year98.4%Top 12%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle18 miTop 50%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 20%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year1.0%Top 15%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
San Antonio IntlSAT18 mi8,505 ft
Kelly FldSKF25 mi11,550 ft
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS66 mi12,250 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 County1,479,83557San Antonio vs Fair Oaks Ranch
New BraunfelsGuadalupe County104,64369New Braunfels vs Fair Oaks Ranch
SchertzBexar County44,05068Schertz vs Fair Oaks Ranch
Timberwood ParkBexar County35,41366
CiboloGuadalupe County35,10972
Canyon LakeComal County33,88369
SeguinGuadalupe County33,75461
ConverseBexar County29,60758
BoerneKendall County20,51869
Universal CityBexar County20,18963
Live OakBexar County15,98461
SelmaBexar County11,50361

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.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWS
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 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 every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Fair Oaks Ranch

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Fair Oaks Ranch with census figures of its own, largest first.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
7801524,867$162,487$492,40071