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Palmer CDP, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Palmer CDP is a Census CDP of 1,435 people across 1.12 square miles of land, in Cameron County. Median household income is $18,675, 72.5 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Palmer
What Palmer is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area1.12 sq mi
- Water area0.05 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,277 plus or minus 637
- County holding the largest share of its areaCameron County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
How many people live in Palmer
- Population1,435 plus or minus 716
- Median age18.5 plus or minus 5.6
- Population under 18679 plus or minus 339
- Share under 1847.3 percent
- Population 65 and over69 plus or minus 74
- Share 65 and over4.8 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Households335 plus or minus 156
- Family households291 plus or minus 146
- Share of households that are families86.9 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
Income and work in Palmer
- Median household income$18,675 plus or minus $16,355
- Per capita income$6,862 plus or minus $3,684
- Civilian labor force466 plus or minus 313
- Employed466 plus or minus 313
- Unemployed0
- Unemployment rate0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over636 plus or minus 324
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher42.5 percent plus or minus 35.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher0.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
Housing in Palmer
- Housing units380 plus or minus 161
- Occupied units335 plus or minus 156
- Vacant units45 plus or minus 69
- Vacancy rate11.8 percent plus or minus 17.5
- Owner occupied243 plus or minus 144
- Renter occupied92 plus or minus 95
- Ownership rate72.5 percent plus or minus 26.6
- Single family units196 plus or minus 129
- Share single family51.6 percent plus or minus 25.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes184 plus or minus 133
- Median year structure built1995
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
How Palmer gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute466 plus or minus 313
- Commuting under 15 minutes0
- Share commuting under 15 minutes0.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more123 plus or minus 141
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.4 percent plus or minus 24.6
- Drove alone100.0 percent
- Carpooled0.0 percent
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Palmer
Flood programme status in Palmer
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480209
- Currently effective map date10/19/23
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Cameron County, not Palmer
Cameron County context, not Palmer figures
These are Cameron County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Palmer measurements.
- Establishments in Cameron County6,732
- Employment at those establishments, Cameron County123,749
- Covered employment, Cameron County156,619
- Average annual pay, Cameron County$44,590
- Average weekly wage, Cameron County$857
- Housing units permitted, Cameron County2,347
- Of those, single family, Cameron County1,668
- County product, 2024, Cameron County$17,386,891,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cameron County8.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cameron County$57,350
Every figure in this section is published for Cameron County as a whole and is not a measurement of Palmer. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA figures are shown. withheld: Texas has 2 places named Palmer and the tape records none of their loans in Cameron County.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Palmer questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Palmer, Texas?
1,435, in 335 households. Palmer CDP covers 1.12 square miles of land, which is 1,277 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Palmer in?
Cameron County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Palmer?
$18,675. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Palmer in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Palmer appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480209, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Palmer figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cameron County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Palmer.
Is zoning published for Palmer?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.