How Does Seagoville Stack Up? Grading Our City Against 10 Texas Towns Our Size

Seagoville sits at 19,352 residents, according to the most recent United States Census Bureau data compiled by the American Community Survey. That makes it the 167th largest city in Texas out of nearly 1,800 incorporated cities and towns. So we asked a simple question. How does our city compare to the ten Texas cities that sit closest to us on the population chart, five just above us and five just below us in size.

We graded all eleven cities, Seagoville included, across five categories that show up again and again in conversations at the barber shop and the city council podium. Median household income. Poverty rate. Median home value. Violent crime rate. Property crime rate. Every figure below comes from the United States Census Bureau and the American Community Survey as compiled by Data USA and Census Reporter for income, poverty and home values, and from NeighborhoodScout’s analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Reports for the crime figures, unless otherwise noted under a card. Grades are assigned on a curve against the other ten cities in this group, not against the state or national average.

Category One: Median Household Income

Seagoville households earn a median of sixty six thousand seven hundred forty three dollars per year. That places us squarely in the middle of this group, well ahead of the lower income cities in our cohort but far behind the two affluent Austin area suburbs that anchor the top of this list.

Source: United States Census Bureau American Community Survey, two thousand twenty four estimates, as compiled by Data USA and Census Reporter.

Category Two: Poverty Rate

Eleven point eight percent of Seagoville residents live below the poverty line. That is a meaningfully better number than half the cities in this group, but worse than every city above us on the income chart. Lower is better here.

Source: United States Census Bureau American Community Survey, two thousand twenty four estimates, as compiled by Data USA and Census Reporter.

Category Three: Median Home Value

The typical Seagoville home is valued at two hundred thirty thousand four hundred dollars. We land in the middle of the pack, ahead of the lower cost cities in East Texas and well behind the booming Austin suburbs where home values have climbed past eight hundred thousand dollars.

Source: United States Census Bureau American Community Survey, two thousand twenty four estimates, as compiled by Data USA. Steiner Ranch figure is a range estimate from Census Reporter, since the Census Bureau suppresses the exact median for this community due to sample size.

Category Four: Violent Crime Rate

This is the category where Seagoville actually leads the entire group. Our violent crime rate of one incident per one thousand residents ties us with Lakeway and Manor for the lowest mark in this comparison, according to NeighborhoodScout’s analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Reports.

Source: NeighborhoodScout analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Reports. La Marque figure calculated from NeighborhoodScout’s reported one in one hundred eighty seven chance of victimization. Steiner Ranch has no standalone FBI reporting district, so its grade is drawn from BestPlaces index data showing its violent crime index at 10.8 against a national average of 22.7, and from Cinco Ranch CrimeGrade.org data, which uses a different methodology than NeighborhoodScout and is not a perfect apples to apples match with the other cities listed here.

Category Five: Property Crime Rate

Here is where the picture changes. Seagoville’s property crime rate of fifteen incidents per one thousand residents is middle of the pack in this group, and NeighborhoodScout has specifically flagged Seagoville as having one of the higher motor vehicle theft rates in the nation for cities of any size.

Source: NeighborhoodScout analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Cinco Ranch figure is calculated from CrimeGrade.org’s reported overall crime rate of 33.34 per 1,000 minus its reported violent crime rate of 3.4 per 1,000, since NeighborhoodScout does not publish a standalone figure for this Census Designated Place. CrimeGrade.org uses a different methodology than NeighborhoodScout, so this number is an estimate and not a precise match to the other figures in this category. Steiner Ranch has no standalone FBI reporting district and its grade is drawn from BestPlaces index data showing a property crime index of 20.2 against a national average of 35.4.

The Final Read

Add it up and Seagoville comes out as a city of two halves. On safety, specifically the violent crime numbers that matter most to families, Seagoville rates among the safest cities in this entire comparison group, tied for the best mark alongside Lakeway and Manor. On the economic side, household income and home values, Seagoville sits in the middle third, ahead of struggling East Texas cities like Palestine and Brownwood but well behind the master planned communities ringing Austin and Houston that simply play in a different financial league.

The property crime number is the one worth watching. A fifteen per one thousand resident rate, paired with a documented vehicle theft problem according to NeighborhoodScout, gives city leadership and the Seagoville Police Department a clear, specific target as the city continues to grow toward that twenty thousand resident mark Census projections suggest we will hit in the next year or two.