78015Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 78015.

73out of 100
Area Score
Top 10% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 13% of 6,210 published ZIP areas75
SchoolsTop 9% of 4,422 published ZIP areas84
Growth2886th of 5,428 published ZIP areas49
Housing affordabilityTop 10% of 6,685 published ZIP areas100
ClimateTop 38% of 6,789 published ZIP areas73
Physical resilience3610th of 6,709 published ZIP areas55
Access4218th of 6,791 published ZIP areas89
Economic stabilityTop 15% of 6,742 published ZIP areas78
The quick read

78015 ranks in the top 13% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.1% and median household income of $162,487.

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

Housing is more affordable relative to local incomes than in most published city profiles: rent takes 15% of median household income and the median home is 3.0 times it.

At a glance

Population
24,867
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$162,487
Top 3% nationally
Density
960/sq mi
25.9 sq mi of land
Median age
38.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fair Oaks Ranch
Texas
Metro area
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
Nearest major airport
SAT
18 mi · San Antonio Intl
Median home value
$492,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.1% is lower than 65% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.0% over the past year, to 23,609 employed residents.

62% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 94% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 97% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,043$162,487Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$8,852$70,820Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate2.9%Bottom 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute32.9 minTop 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher62.1%Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment23,609Bottom 24%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)3.5%Top 11%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.0%Bottom 45%June 2026
Labor force24,617Bottom 24%June 2026
Labor force participation63.6%Top 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$61,140Bottom 24%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$47,010Bottom 20%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.6%Top 27%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.1%Bottom 35%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024162k133k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $162,487 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.

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

60% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 63% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

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

Public schools
2
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
60.1%
Top 9% in Texas
Reading proficiency
63.1%
Top 6% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
FAIR OAKS RANCH ELBOERNE ISD82116.860%67%
VAN RAUB ELBOERNE ISD75914.661%59%

11.8% 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 $2,060 takes 15% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 3.0 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
15.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.0×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,060
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$492,400
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income3.03Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate93.8%Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±8018,486Top 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$1,044$2,060Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$35,282$492,400Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income15.2%Bottom 32%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.5%Bottom 20%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
49/ 100
Ranks 2886 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 2.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
23
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.1
Bottom 42% nationally
Year over year
−56%
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 Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

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, 17.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation32.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.2"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high95°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

55 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HailElevated
WildfireModerate
Inland floodingModerate
DroughtModerate
LandslideModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, winter weather, strong wind, heat wave, 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. 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.

Kendall County records 0.0 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 14.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

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

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
13.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
21.8
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 Kendall 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 78015 rather than 78015 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 18 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
San Antonio IntlSAT18 mi8,505 ft
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS67 mi12,250 ft
Victoria RgnlVCT121 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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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
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
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.

78015 vs Fair Oaks Ranch

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

78015
Fair Oaks Ranch
Median household income
$162,487
vs
$174,327
Per capita income
$70,820
vs
$90,770
Population density
960/sq mi
vs
875/sq mi
Median home value
$492,400
vs
$657,600
Median gross rent
$2,060
vs
$2,108
Homeownership rate
93.8%
vs
97.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher
62.1%
vs
67.5%
Poverty rate
2.9%
vs
2.4%
Median age
38.8
vs
46.1

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.