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How Edinburg's prices compare to the US city average across major spending categories.
How far does your salary go in Edinburg?
Your $100,000 in Edinburg has the same purchasing power as $127,730 in the average US city. You'd need $27,730 less 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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Sorted by affordability — most affordable first.
Within 10 points of Edinburg's cost index of 78, sorted by closest match.
These are the reasons people actually move to Edinburg, ordered roughly by what shows up loudest in the data. A genuinely affordable place to land and wage income stays untaxed at the state level lead, plus 2 more things worth knowing — the rest unpacked below.
Cost of living lands at 78 on the composite index — about 22% under the US average. That's the kind of gap that shows up in the savings rate, not just the rent check. Median rent in town runs about $920/mo against a typical household income of $54,139, which is the kind of ratio that leaves room to save.
Wage income in Edinburg 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.
Reported crime in Edinburg comes in around 2,564 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.
Average commute time in Edinburg runs around 20 minutes one-way — short enough that it doesn't restructure your day. Compared to the 45-plus-minute commutes that are normal in major metros, the difference adds up to a real lifestyle gap.
Reasons are pulled from Edinburg'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 Edinburg run about 50°F — cold-snap mornings happen, real snowfall doesn't, except maybe once a decade.
Not very. Average winter temperatures of about 50°F mean Edinburg skips the harsh-winter problem most of the country has. A handful of cold mornings, otherwise sweater weather at worst.
Properly hot. Edinburg's summer averages around 93°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. Edinburg'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 95 feet (29 m) above sea level — flat enough that nothing about Edinburg'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 Edinburg 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. Edinburg comes in around 2,564 per 100,000, basically the national average. The interesting question is usually which neighborhood, not which city — that's where the real variation lives.
Edinburg is a genuinely affordable city by US standards. The composite index sits at 78 versus the 100 national baseline — about 22% cheaper overall, with housing doing most of the heavy lifting.
Edinburg's Walk Score is 12/100, 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 $54,803 to live in Edinburg 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 Edinburg runs about $920/mo — keeping housing under 30% of gross income points to a similar floor on what you'd want to earn.