76706Robinson, Texas

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 76706.

59out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 47% of 5,298 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3929th of 6,210 ZIP areas measured48
Schools3141st of 4,422 ZIP areas measured35
GrowthTop 36% of 5,428 ZIP areas measured58
Housing affordability5976th of 6,685 ZIP areas measured47
Climate4076th of 6,789 ZIP areas measured67
Physical resilienceTop 10% of 6,709 ZIP areas measured90
AccessTop 33% of 6,791 ZIP areas measured97
Economic stability5948th of 6,742 ZIP areas measured33
The quick read

Rent takes 33% of median household income here, at or above the threshold conventionally called cost-burdened.

Natural-hazard exposure is lower than in most comparable published ZIP profiles, placing 76706 in the top 10% for physical resilience.

A major airport is 13 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
41,627
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$41,656
Bottom 7% nationally
Density
576/sq mi
72.3 sq mi of land
Median age
24.2
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Robinson
Texas
Metro area
Waco, TX
Nearest major airport
CNW
13 mi · Tstc Waco
Median home value
$197,000
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.6% is lower than 43% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment grew 0.2% over the past year, to 126,007 employed residents.

Median household income of $41,656 is below 93% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$5,983$41,656Bottom 7%of 31,2952024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,668$24,465Bottom 12%of 32,8222024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate33.3%Top 5%of 32,9702024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute19.4 minBottom 11%of 32,8872024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher23.1%Top 50%of 33,1932024 ACS 5-Year
Employment126,007Top 30%of 6,544June 2026
Employment change (3 years)2.5%Top 20%of 6,542June 2026
Employment change (year over year)0.2%Top 26%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force132,148Top 30%of 6,544June 2026
Labor force participation62.6%Top 42%of 33,2522024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$58,190Bottom 13%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Median annual wage$46,020Bottom 12%of 6,0722025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)0.5%Top 31%of 6,544June 2026
Unemployment rate4.6%Top 43%of 6,544June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202442k35k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $41,656 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 — Waco, TX
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Fast Food and Counter Workers5,100$27,750
General and Operations Managers3,690$92,990
Stockers and Order Fillers3,540$37,500
Customer Service Representatives3,260$38,810
Retail Salespersons3,140$29,810
Registered Nurses2,570$92,890

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 Robinson, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

29% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 32% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 14.6 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
14
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
14.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
28.7%
Bottom 30% in Texas
Reading proficiency
32.3%
Bottom 25% in Texas
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
UNIVERSITY H SWACO ISD1,75214.2
BELL'S HILL ELWACO ISD78615.730%32%
CESAR CHAVEZ MIDDLEWACO ISD78614.017%27%
ROBINSON H SROBINSON ISD72513.2
ROBINSON INTROBINSON ISD55115.351%46%
SOUTH WACO ELWACO ISD49018.16%22%
ALTA VISTA ELWACO ISD47914.513%14%
ROBINSON PRIROBINSON ISD38915.6
ROBINSON J HROBINSON ISD38312.862%52%
ROBINSON ELROBINSON ISD32814.332%42%
CHALLENGE ACADEMYLA VEGA ISD2
CHALLENGE ACADEMYCONNALLY ISD1

72.2% 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 $1,149 takes 33% of median household income, above the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 4.7 times median household income here, above the historic benchmark of about three times income.

Rent as a share of income
33.1%
Above the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
4.7×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,149
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$197,000
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price to income4.73Top 19%of 30,4042024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate39.0%Bottom 5%of 32,9102024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±72117,106Top 6%of 33,7722024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$82$1,149Top 39%of 26,6182024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$22,447$197,000Bottom 43%of 30,9412024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income33.1%Top 3%of 26,4702024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate12.9%Top 44%of 33,0282024 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
58/ 100
Top 36% 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 3.4 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
44
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.4
Top 42% nationally
Year over year
−4%
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 Robinson, TX, the city containing this ZIP code.

Weather & climate

6 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 97°F and January a low of 36°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 36.4 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 53, in the Moderate band, and about 5 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 WACO RGNL AP, 14.1 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND4.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index73.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation36.4"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low36°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high97°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months61991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10052024 calendar year
Median air quality index53.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing38°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
53
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
73
90th percentile index
Days above 100
5
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

90 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are hurricane, wildfire and winter weather.

WildfireModerate
HurricaneModerate
Winter weatherModerate

Low or minimal exposure: tornado, lightning, cold wave, heat wave, hail, inland flooding, ice storm, strong wind, earthquake, drought, landslide.

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.

McLennan County records 5.6 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 14.1 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 10.4 per 100,000 residents in McLennan County.

Homicide
5.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
14.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
10.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.4
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 McLennan 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 76706 rather than 76706 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
Offences reported to police are published by department rather than by town, and only where a department reported every month of the year. No municipal department reports for this place — many smaller communities are policed by the county — so there is no figure to show. A partial year is never scaled up to look complete, and arrest counts or news volume are never substituted for it.
Taxes and full cost of living
No public source publishes either with national coverage and a method open enough to check. 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. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

4 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 13 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Tstc WacoCNW13 mi8,600 ft
Austin-Bergstrom IntlAUS94 mi12,250 ft
Dallas Love FldDAL97 mi8,800 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.

76706 vs Robinson

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

76706
Robinson
Median household income
$41,656
vs
$99,289
Per capita income
$24,465
vs
$38,194
Population density
576/sq mi
vs
418/sq mi
Median home value
$197,000
vs
$302,200
Median gross rent
$1,149
vs
$1,419
Homeownership rate
39.0%
vs
78.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.1%
vs
22.0%
Poverty rate
33.3%
vs
3.7%
Median age
24.2
vs
35.1

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.