75082Richardson, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 75082.

73out of 100
Area Score
Top 12% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 17% of 6,210 published ZIP areas72
SchoolsTop 7% of 4,422 published ZIP areas86
GrowthTop 31% of 5,428 published ZIP areas61
Housing affordability3620th of 6,685 published ZIP areas77
Climate4416th of 6,789 published ZIP areas65
Physical resilienceTop 43% of 6,709 published ZIP areas65
AccessTop 32% of 6,791 published ZIP areas97
Economic stabilityTop 9% of 6,742 published ZIP areas82
The quick read

75082 ranks in the top 17% of published ZIP profiles for employment opportunity, with unemployment at 4.2% and median household income of $110,534.

766 housing units were authorized over the past twelve months, within 5% of the prior year — steady rather than turning.

A major airport is 15 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
29,618
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$110,534
Top 13% nationally
Density
3,612/sq mi
8.2 sq mi of land
Median age
36.1
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Richardson
Texas
Metro area
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
Nearest major airport
DAL
15 mi · Dallas Love Fld
Median home value
$492,900
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.2% is lower than 60% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 0.4% over the past year, to 65,958 employed residents.

68% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 96% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 87% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$6,564$110,534Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,348$63,219Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate6.9%Bottom 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute25.5 minBottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher68.4%Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment65,958Top 44%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.0%Top 36%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-0.4%Top 37%June 2026
Labor force68,871Top 44%June 2026
Labor force participation74.4%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$70,630Top 39%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$51,440Top 43%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 31%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.2%Bottom 40%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024111k100k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $110,534 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 — Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers128,380$28,070
General and Operations Managers125,090$111,010
Stockers and Order Fillers111,100$37,590
Retail Salespersons100,340$33,400
Customer Service Representatives96,930$44,990
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand81,940$38,510

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 Richardson, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

54% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 61% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 13.0 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
3
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
13.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
54.1%
Top 17% in Texas
Reading proficiency
61.5%
Top 8% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
STINSON ELPLANO ISD46312.956%63%
SCHELL ELPLANO ISD40313.450%61%
MILLER ELPLANO ISD31512.657%59%

24.6% 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 $1,906 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.5 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
20.7%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,906
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$492,900
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income4.46Top 22%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate45.3%Bottom 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±51513,458Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$45$1,906Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$15,118$492,900Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income20.7%Top 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.7%Bottom 16%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
61/ 100
Top 31% 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.

81% of recently permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes, so new supply is concentrated in apartments and condominiums rather than detached houses.

At 6.5 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
766
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
6.5
Top 23% nationally
Year over year
−5%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
81.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Richardson, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

5 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 34°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 38.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 55, in the Moderate band, and about 19 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station MCKINNEY MUNI AP, 13.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.8"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index84.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation38.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low34°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months51991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 100192024 calendar year
Median air quality index55.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing40°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
55
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
84
90th percentile index
Days above 100
19
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

65 / 100
Physical resilience

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

HailHigh
LightningModerate

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

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.

Dallas County records 7.9 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 13.9 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 21.2 per 100,000 residents in Dallas County.

Homicide
7.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
13.9
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
21.2
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
11.3
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 Dallas 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 75082 rather than 75082 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

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 15 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Dallas Love FldDAL15 mi8,800 ft
Dallas-Fort Worth IntlDFW23 mi13,401 ft
MajorsGVT35 mi8,030 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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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.

75082 vs Richardson

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

75082
Richardson
Median household income
$110,534
vs
$98,111
Per capita income
$63,219
vs
$51,863
Population density
3,612/sq mi
vs
4,157/sq mi
Median home value
$492,900
vs
$431,400
Median gross rent
$1,906
vs
$1,857
Homeownership rate
45.3%
vs
50.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher
68.4%
vs
57.0%
Poverty rate
6.9%
vs
9.7%
Median age
36.1
vs
33.9

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.