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How Atascocita's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Atascocita?
Your $100,000 in Atascocita has the same purchasing power as $98,639 in the average US city. You'd need $1,361 more here to maintain that standard of living.
Demographics and workforce data from the US Census ACS 5-Year.
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Climate, safety, and walkability indicators.
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Within 10 points of Atascocita's cost index of 101, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Atascocita, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. Wage income stays untaxed at the state level and above-average earnings, not just for a few people lead, plus 2 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
Wage income in Atascocita isn't taxed at the state level. Texas is one of the few US states with no income tax, which is one of the reasons people relocating from high-tax states tend to land here in the first place.
Atascocita's typical household earns $115,687, which puts it in the top tier of US cities for household income. The bottom of the wage distribution isn't necessarily different from anywhere else, but the median and above sit meaningfully higher.
Reported crime in Atascocita comes in around 2,976 per 100,000 — under the national baseline of about 3,500. Worth digging into specific neighborhoods before settling on one, but the city-level picture is on the safer side.
Atascocita has a college-educated share of about 40% among adults 25+, which is higher than the national norm. It shows up in the local job mix, in the school district's reputation, and in the kind of conversations you have at the coffee shop.
Reasons are pulled from Atascocita's actual data — Census ACS, BLS, BEA, NOAA, EPA AQS, FBI, and Walk Score. We don't list positives that aren't supported by the numbers, which is why different cities show different sections.
It's rare. Winters in Atascocita run about 46°F — cold-snap mornings happen, real snowfall doesn't, except maybe once a decade.
Not very. Average winter temperatures of about 46°F mean Atascocita skips the harsh-winter problem most of the country has. A handful of cold mornings, otherwise sweater weather at worst.
Properly hot. Atascocita's summer averages around 94°F with daily highs that routinely break 100°F. The trick to summer here is starting the day at sunrise and staying inside through the worst of it.
Zone 10, give or take a half-zone. Atascocita's typical winter low puts it in that band on the USDA Hardiness map, which is what nurseries label plants against. Use Zone 10 as your starting filter; the USDA's interactive map is more precise for borderline cases.
Around 82 feet (25 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Atascocita's altitude shows up in daily life.
Atlantic basin storms can form from June 1 to November 30, but the serious ones cluster in August, September, and the first half of October. Residents of Atascocita learn the season's rhythm fast: watch the cone, board up when it's the call, and don't shrug off the slow-mover storms — those are usually the ones that flood.
Middle of the pack. Atascocita comes in around 2,976 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Atascocita's index of 101 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Atascocita scores 42 out of 100 on Walk Score, which translates to "car-dependent but not aggressively so". Some neighborhoods buck the citywide average; the dense inner cores are usually noticeably more walkable than the city number suggests.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $70,966 to live in Atascocita the way a $70,000 earner lives in a typical US city. The math gets less forgiving the lower you go below that. Median rent in Atascocita runs about $1,706/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.