What salary do you need to live in Texarkana, TX?

Rent, home values and prices in Texarkana

Median gross rent, meaning contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities, runs $720, $930 and $1,130 a month for one, two and three bedrooms across Texarkana, TX-AR. The largest of those is 57% more than the smallest.

Buying is the other half of the housing picture: owners put the median home in Texarkana, TX-AR at $160,600. That is only 2.9× the area's median household income of $55,646, a low ratio by national standards.

The Regional Price Parity, BEA's index of local prices with the US at 100, is 84.0 here. Below 100 means a paycheck stretches further: $100,000 in Texarkana has the buying power of roughly $119,031 at national average prices.

The salary lines for a two-bedroom in Texarkana

The salary lines for a two-bedroom household land at $16,000 for Tight, $39,000 for Okay and $78,000 for Comfortable. The gap between the Okay and Comfortable lines alone is $39,000, which says how much extra income it takes to make housing feel roomy here rather than merely workable.

Royal, the top band, starts at $213,000. 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 Texarkana.

Texarkana at four common salaries

Take a $75,000 salary. In a one-bedroom the rent share is 12% and the score 68, Comfortable; in a three-bedroom the share rises to 18% and the score falls to 61, Okay.

Of the four salaries, $100,000 is the first where a two-bedroom reads Comfortable or better; $75,000 still lands at Okay.

Texarkana compared with every US metro

Ranked against all 387 metros, Texarkana sits 384th on overall price level and 344th on the two-bedroom rent median, counting from the most expensive. Its median home value ranks 365th.

For a sense of scale, the metros just above and below it on two-bedroom rent are Paducah, KY-IL ($930) and Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ ($927).

Texarkana next to Texas and similar metros

Compared with Texas as a whole, two-bedroom rent in Texarkana is 33% lower ($930 vs. $1,395) and the median home is 43% lower ($160,600 vs. $283,800). Because the metro spans Texas and Arkansas, the comparison uses Texas, where Texarkana itself is.

Run Texas's statewide medians through the same score and Comfortable begins at $166,000; Texarkana's line is −53% from that.

Looking for somewhere comparable without leaving Texas? McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX, Brownsville-Harlingen, TX, and Eagle Pass, TX have the closest mix of rent and overall prices.

The median Texarkana household

A household at the Texarkana median income of $55,646 would see a two-bedroom score of 56 — Okay — with rent at 20% of income. Put differently, Texarkana's typical household is $22,354 below the $78,000 it takes to read Comfortable on two bedrooms. For Texas as a whole, the median household income of $78,476 scores 44 against statewide rents. Keep in mind a household median often combines two incomes.

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