78015 — Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 78015. Its median home value runs 25% below Fair Oaks Ranch as a whole, which is why this ZIP carries a profile of its own.

71out of 100
Area Score
Top 10% of 3,116 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
OpportunityTop 8% of 3,119 ZIP areas measured79
SchoolsTop 6% of 3,047 ZIP areas measured85
Growth1,772nd of 3,124 ZIP areas measured47
Housing affordabilityTop 11% of 3,115 ZIP areas measured81
ClimateTop 39% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured73
Physical resilience1,685th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured55
Access1,604th of 3,127 ZIP areas measured92
Economic stabilityTop 19% of 3,127 ZIP areas measured72
The quick read

78015 ranks in the top 8% of ZIP areas measured for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 3.9% and median household income of $162,487. The unemployment rate is published for Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, which contains 78015, rather than for 78015 alone.

Public schools test above most of the state: 71% of students met the mathematics standard, placing the area in the top 6% of published profiles for schools.

Residential permitting has slowed: 23 units authorized over the past twelve months, 56% below the prior year. The permit count and 1 other measure here are published for Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, which contains 78015, rather than for 78015 alone.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
24,867
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$162,487
Top 2% nationally
Density
960/sq mi
25.9 sq mi of land
Median age
38.8
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Fair Oaks Ranch
Texas
Nearest major airport
SAT
18 mi · San Antonio Intl
Median home value
$492,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, which contains 78015, is 3.9%, lower than in 67% of the 3,127 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment across Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, which contains 78015, fell 0.3% over the past year, to 23,713 employed residents.

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

Median household income of $162,487 is higher than in 98% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$6,0432024 ACS 5-Year$162,487Top 2%of 31,1382024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$8,8522024 ACS 5-Year$70,820Top 6%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year2.5%Top 9%of 32,8462024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.7 min2024 ACS 5-Year32.9 minBottom 25%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year62.1%Top 6%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year61.9%15th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentFair Oaks Ranch, TX’s figureJuly 202623,713Bottom 25%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Fair Oaks Ranch, TX’s figureJuly 2026+3.7%Top 11%of 3,127July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Fair Oaks Ranch, TX’s figureJuly 2026−0.3%Top 41%of 3,127July 2026
Labor forceFair Oaks Ranch, TX’s figureJuly 202624,68125th percentileof 3,127July 2026
Labor force participation ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year78.5%Top 49%of 32,8832024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wageSan Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$61,140Bottom 28%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Median annual wageSan Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2025 OEWS$47,010Bottom 24%of 2,7602025 OEWS
Public transit to work ±0.2%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Fair Oaks Ranch, TX’s figureJuly 2026+0.2%Bottom 35%of 3,127July 2026
Unemployment rateFair Oaks Ranch, TX’s figureJuly 20263.9%Top 33%of 3,127July 2026
Worked from home ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year29.6%94th percentileof 32,7982024 ACS 5-Year

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

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

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, more 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 7% in Texas
Reading proficiency
71.8%
Top 5% 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.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $8,431 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.71% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,870, below the $2,060 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 46% of the median household income here of $162,487.

The typical renter household here spends 26% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $2,060 a month.

A median home at $492,400 costs 3.0 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $164,802, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

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
26.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
3.0×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,870
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$2,060
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$492,400
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against 78015’s median household income of $162,487, 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 32%of 2,7372023
Home price change (1 year)the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2−0.5%4th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+29.3%14th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area’s figure2026 Q2+79.7%24th percentileof 3,0712026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.22024 ACS 5-Year3.0Bottom 40%of 29,3222024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year93.8%89th percentileof 32,9062024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±8012024 ACS 5-Year8,48681st percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,530Bottom 34%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$2,390Bottom 31%of 3,031FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,870Bottom 30%of 3,031FY2026
Median gross rent ±$1,0442024 ACS 5-Year$2,060Bottom 7%of 26,4752024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$35,2822024 ACS 5-Year$492,40087th percentileof 30,8122024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$5192024 ACS 5-Year$8,43198th percentileof 28,9352024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$6,1572024 ACS 5-Year$164,802Top 4%of 29,8022024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.16%2024 ACS 5-Year1.71%89th percentileof 24,0992024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±18%2024 ACS 5-Year26.2%Top 38%of 26,3322024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±552024 ACS 5-Year4762nd percentileof 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.6%42nd percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year3.9%28th percentileof 32,9612024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±2692024 ACS 5-Year37868th percentileof 33,7722024 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

47/ 100
Ranks 1,772 of 3,124 published ZIP 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: of 23 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes. The multifamily share is published for Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, which contains 78015, rather than for 78015 alone.

At 2.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US ZIP areas. The permit rate is published for Fair Oaks Ranch, TX, which contains 78015, rather than for 78015 alone.

Units permitted
23
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
2.1
Bottom 39% 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 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 65% 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. 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 offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

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.

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 78015 (Kendall County) rather than 78015 itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read 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.

Reported crime
Offenses reported to police are published by department rather than by town, so AreaProfile shows a rate only on city profiles, and only where that city’s department submitted every month of a year. A ZIP area is not a jurisdiction, so no department reports for one. Fair Oaks Ranch carries the figure where its department reported a full year. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
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-Year99.3%Top 6%of 32,8192024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle18 miBottom 49%of 3,127NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 21%of 3,127NASR current cycle
No internet access ±0.7%2024 ACS 5-Year0.5%Top 8%of 32,8192024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
San Antonio IntlSAT18 mi8,505 ft
Kelly FldSKF25 mi11,550 ft
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS67 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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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
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
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
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
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 September 26, 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.

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 — a gap here is a real difference between the two places, not two surveys disagreeing.

78015
Fair Oaks Ranch
Median household income: Fair Oaks Ranch is the more favorable of the two.
Median household income
$162,487
vs
$174,327
Per capita income: Fair Oaks Ranch is the more favorable of the two.
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: 78015 is the more favorable of the two.
Median gross rent
$2,060
vs
$2,108
Homeownership rate
93.8%
vs
97.3%
Bachelor's degree or higher: Fair Oaks Ranch is the more favorable of the two.
Bachelor's degree or higher
62.1%
vs
67.5%
Poverty rate: Fair Oaks Ranch is the more favorable of the two.
Poverty rate
2.5%
vs
2.3%
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.