What salary do you need to live in Eagle Pass, TX?

What housing costs in Eagle Pass

Renters in Eagle Pass pay a median $853 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $810, three bedrooms $1,075, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $3,180 a year.

On the ownership side, the typical owner-occupied home is valued at $158,700. Against a median household income of $49,568, the ratio is 3.2× — one of the gentler home-price-to-income ratios in the country.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 83.8 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Eagle Pass has the buying power of roughly $119,325 at national average prices.

How much you need to earn in Eagle Pass

With a two-bedroom at the median rent, the score enters Tight at $16,000, Okay at $37,000 and Comfortable at $74,000 a year before tax. At the Comfortable line, a year of rent takes 14% of income and the median home is 2.1× income.

Royal, the top band, starts at $195,000. At that income rent is 5% of pay and the median home 0.8× income.

Each figure is the lowest income, to the next $1,000, at which the calculator itself would show that grade for a two-bedroom in Eagle Pass.

Scores at $50K, $75K, $100K and $150K in Eagle Pass

At $75,000, a one-bedroom scores 66 (Comfortable), a two-bedroom 66 (Comfortable) and a three-bedroom 62 (Okay). The $3,180 a year between the smallest and largest home is what moves the grade.

Of the four salaries, $75,000 is the first where a two-bedroom reads Comfortable or better; $50,000 still lands at Okay.

Eagle Pass compared with every US metro

Out of 387 metros, Eagle Pass has the 386th highest price parity and the 373rd highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it in the bottom 10% on overall prices and in the bottom 10% on rent.

Its nearest neighbors on the rent list are Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA ($855) and Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC ($851).

Eagle Pass next to Texas and similar metros

Statewide, Texas's median two-bedroom rent is $1,395 and its median home value $283,800. Eagle Pass's rent is −39% against that, and its home value −44%; the price parity is 83.8 versus 97.1 for the state.

On statewide medians, a two-bedroom budget reaches Comfortable at $166,000 — above Eagle Pass's $74,000 line.

The nearest matches in Texas, judged on rent and price parity together, are Brownsville-Harlingen, TX, Texarkana, TX-AR, and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX.

The median Eagle Pass household

The median household in the metro earns $49,568 (ACS 2020-2024). Run through the calculator with two bedrooms, that scores 54, Okay. Reaching Comfortable would take $24,432 more than the median household earns. Statewide, the Texas median household ($78,476) grades Tight on the state's own medians. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

All figures are pre-tax estimates from public data, not financial advice.