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Your $100,000 in Burleson has the same purchasing power as $93,223 in the average US city. You'd need $6,777 more here to maintain that standard of living.
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Burleson has a handful of real selling points, and they're not the kind of thing you find in a brochure. Texas doesn't tax your paycheck and solidly above-average earnings are the headliners, plus 2 more things worth knowing. The rest is below.
Living in Burleson means no state income tax on your salary — Texas is one of nine states that simply doesn't have one. On a $100k income that's typically thousands of dollars a year that stay in your account instead of going to a state revenue department.
The typical household in Burleson pulls in $87,312 — comfortably above the US median. Combined with the cost of living here, the income-to-expense ratio works out better than a quick look at either number in isolation would suggest.
The unemployment rate in Burleson sits at roughly 3.8%, which is a tight labor market by US standards. Salaries get nudged up faster, openings are easier to find, and switching jobs is less of a leap than it is in a softer market.
The reported crime rate in Burleson runs about 1,438 per 100,000 residents — meaningfully below the national norm. People who care about safety as a baseline rather than a feature tend to land in cities with numbers like these.
Reasons are pulled from Burleson'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.
Not really a snow town. With winters averaging 37°F, Burleson sits in the mild-cold band where snowflakes appear occasionally and everything melts within a day. Most years see one storm worth talking about.
Cool, not cold. Winters in Burleson sit around 37°F — sweater-and-jacket weather most days, with the occasional cold front that reminds you it's still winter.
Properly hot. Burleson'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.
Burleson falls in roughly USDA Zone 9. The zone classification is based on average annual minimum temperatures, so it's the right lookup for whether perennials and trees will overwinter here. Note that this is approximate from our winter-temperature data — check the USDA map for the exact zone before betting an expensive plant on it.
Roughly 810 feet (247 m). That's modest elevation — comparable to most inland-Midwest and Southern cities.
Hurricane season covers June through November, with peak activity in late summer and early fall. For Burleson, the practical advice is: have a few days of water and supplies on hand from August onward, know your evacuation route, and don't wait for the news to tell you a storm is "probably nothing" — track the cone yourself.
The headline number is reassuring. Burleson's reported incident rate of about 1,438 per 100,000 is comfortably below the US norm of around 3,500 per 100k. Specific neighborhoods always vary, but the broader picture is on the safer side.
It's a middle-of-the-road US city on cost. Burleson's index of 107 sits within a few points of the national average — your money buys roughly what it would in a typical American metro.
Burleson's Walk Score is 1/100, firmly in the car-required tier. The layout assumes you'll drive to the grocery store, drive to work, drive everywhere.
As a rule of thumb, plan on about $75,089 to live in Burleson 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 Burleson runs about $1,571/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.