Fort Hood, Texas

Area Profile

26,814 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Fort Hood, in Coryell County.

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How this area ranks
Schools1433rd of 2,668 published cities49
Housing affordability3186th of 4,223 published cities63
Climate2428th of 4,223 published cities68
Physical resilienceTop 35% of 4,182 published cities71
Access3811th of 4,226 published cities66
Economic stability2495th of 4,226 published cities56
The quick read

In the public schools here, 37% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 16.4 students for every teacher.

Rent takes 27% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened.

A typical July reaches 96°F and a typical January falls to 36°F, on thirty-year normals.

At a glance

Population
26,814
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$62,835
Bottom 44% nationally
Density
1,385/sq mi
19.4 sq mi of land
Median age
22.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Coryell County
Texas
Metro area
Killeen-Temple, TX
Nearest major airport
CNW
54 mi · Tstc Waco
Median home value

Jobs & opportunity

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,830$62,835Bottom 44%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,278$24,464Bottom 19%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate13.3%Top 41%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute12.7 minBottom 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher27.8%Top 34%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation80.9%Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$62,390Bottom 23%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,660Bottom 14%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202463k49k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $62,835 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 — Killeen-Temple, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers7,120$26,530
Registered Nurses5,340$93,440
Stockers and Order Fillers3,970$36,560
Retail Salespersons3,870$29,970
General and Operations Managers3,650$87,920
Cashiers3,250$28,610

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.

37% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 42% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 16.4 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
8
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
16.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
37.3%
Bottom 46% in Texas
Reading proficiency
42.1%
Top 44% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
KILLEEN ISD EARLY COLLEGE H SKILLEEN ISD96020.4
MEADOWS ELKILLEEN ISD91215.733%38%
AUDIE MURPHY MIDDLEKILLEEN ISD76817.542%37%
OVETA CULP HOBBY ELKILLEEN ISD73015.217%42%
CLEAR CREEK ELKILLEEN ISD69615.546%41%
VENABLE VILLAGE ELKILLEEN ISD59714.928%28%
MONTAGUE VILLAGE ELKILLEEN ISD54817.160%59%
CLARKE ELKILLEEN ISD48114.142%57%

55.2% 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 $1,406 takes 27% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

Rent as a share of income
26.9%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,406
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Homeownership rate0.2%Bottom 1%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±3386,634Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$17$1,406Top 23%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income26.9%Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate20.7%Top 22%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

6 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 36°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 34.8 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station KILLEEN, 7.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.7"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation34.8"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low36°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high96°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing37°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

71 / 100
Physical resilience

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

WildfireModerate
HailElevated
Cold waveModerate
HurricaneModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, winter weather, heat wave, inland flooding, ice storm, drought, strong wind, landslide, 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.

Coryell County records 3.9 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 15.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 8.9 per 100,000 residents in Coryell County.

Homicide
3.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
15.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
8.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
20.0
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 Coryell 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 Fort Hood rather than Fort Hood 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 54 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tstc WacoCNW54 mi8,600 ft
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS65 mi12,250 ft
San Antonio IntlSAT118 mi8,505 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 Killeen-Temple, TX

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
KilleenBell County158,15960vs Fort Hood
TempleBell County89,60266vs Fort Hood
Copperas CoveCoryell County37,94767vs Fort Hood
Harker HeightsBell County34,12865vs Fort Hood
BeltonBell County24,35662vs Fort Hood
GatesvilleCoryell County16,22863vs Fort Hood

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 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 Fort Hood

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
7654428,191$62,846