What salary do you need to live in San Angelo, TX?

The cost side of living in San Angelo

Renters in San Angelo pay a median $1,193 a month for two bedrooms. Size matters: one bedroom is $889, three bedrooms $1,438, so going from the smallest to the largest of the three adds $6,588 a year.

The median value of owner-occupied homes in the metro is $197,100. That is only 2.9× the area's median household income of $68,419, a low ratio by national standards.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 92.5 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in San Angelo has the buying power of roughly $108,163 at national average prices.

How much you need to earn in San Angelo

The salary lines for a two-bedroom household land at $29,000 for Tight, $58,000 for Okay and $116,000 for Comfortable. The gap between the Okay and Comfortable lines alone is $58,000, which says how much extra income it takes to make housing feel roomy here rather than merely workable.

Reaching Royal takes $376,000 — 3.2× the Comfortable line — because the last points come slowly once rent is already a small share.

Nothing here is a separate rule of thumb; plug any of these incomes into the calculator with two bedrooms and San Angelo shows the matching grade.

Four salaries, three home sizes in San Angelo

Choosing a bigger place in San Angelo at $75,000 trims the score from 57 to 50 without leaving Okay.

Read down the two-bedroom column and the first Comfortable row is $150,000, consistent with the $116,000 line above.

San Angelo on the national list

Out of 387 metros, San Angelo has the 233rd highest price parity and the 162nd highest two-bedroom rent, which puts it in the middle half on overall prices and near the middle on rent.

Next to San Angelo on the national rent ranking: Bloomington, IN ($1,193) and Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN ($1,192).

San Angelo in a Texas context

Statewide, Texas's median two-bedroom rent is $1,395 and its median home value $283,800. San Angelo's rent is −14% against that, and its home value −31%; the price parity is 92.5 versus 97.1 for the state.

The Texas figure for the Comfortable line, using state medians, is $166,000 against $116,000 for San Angelo.

The nearest matches in Texas, judged on rent and price parity together, are Tyler, TX, Waco, TX, and Sherman-Denison, TX.

Does the typical San Angelo income clear the bar?

What about a typical local household? Census puts median household income here at $68,419, which grades Okay (50) for a two-bedroom at the median rent. The Comfortable line is 70% above what the median household makes. For Texas as a whole, the median household income of $78,476 scores 44 against statewide rents. Since a household can have two or more earners, compare it with a combined income rather than one paycheck.

Treat every number here as a pre-tax, public-data estimate rather than financial advice.