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Rising Star town, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Rising Star town is a Census town of 668 people across 1.73 square miles of land, in Eastland County. Median household income is $37,037, 57.3 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Rising Star
What Rising Star is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.73 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land387 plus or minus 94
- County holding the largest share of its areaEastland 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.
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How many people live in Rising Star
- Population668 plus or minus 162
- Median age45.8 plus or minus 10.1
- Population under 18145 plus or minus 52
- Share under 1821.7 percent plus or minus 5.7
- Population 65 and over168 plus or minus 65
- Share 65 and over25.1 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Households288 plus or minus 82
- Family households132 plus or minus 45
- Share of households that are families45.8 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Rising Star
- Median household income$37,037
- Per capita income$23,107
- Civilian labor force303 plus or minus 94
- Employed284 plus or minus 91
- Unemployed19 plus or minus 15
- Unemployment rate6.3 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Adults 25 and over447 plus or minus 114
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher73.8 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher8.1 percent plus or minus 4.8
- 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.
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Housing in Rising Star
- Housing units430 plus or minus 89
- Occupied units288 plus or minus 82
- Vacant units142 plus or minus 44
- Vacancy rate33.0 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Owner occupied165 plus or minus 67
- Renter occupied123 plus or minus 52
- Ownership rate57.3 percent plus or minus 16.6
- Median owner-occupied home value$39,500 plus or minus $23,819
- Median gross rent, monthly$707 plus or minus $296
- Annual rent as a share of median income22.9 percent plus or minus 10.0
- Single family units315 plus or minus 83
- Share single family73.3 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more42 plus or minus 28
- Share in buildings of two or more9.8 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Mobile homes67 plus or minus 34
- Median year structure built1952
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Rising Star gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute260 plus or minus 85
- Commuting under 15 minutes134 plus or minus 53
- Share commuting under 15 minutes51.5 percent plus or minus 11.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more69 plus or minus 40
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.5 percent plus or minus 12.7
- Drove alone65.2 percent
- Carpooled21.7 percent plus or minus 13.1
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.3 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Worked from home5.8 percent plus or minus 4.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Flood programme status in Rising Star
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480795
- Currently effective map date10/31/78(M)
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.
Eastland County, not Rising Star
Eastland County context, not Rising Star figures
These are Eastland County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Rising Star measurements.
- Establishments in Eastland County489
- Employment at those establishments, Eastland County5,658
- Covered employment, Eastland County5,803
- Average annual pay, Eastland County$51,592
- Average weekly wage, Eastland County$992
- Housing units permitted, Eastland County16
- Of those, single family, Eastland County16
- County product, 2024, Eastland County$905,985,000
- County product change over the prior year, Eastland County1.8 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Eastland County$52,552
Every figure in this section is published for Eastland County as a whole and is not a measurement of Rising Star. 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 approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Rising Star questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Rising Star, Texas?
668, in 288 households. Rising Star town covers 1.73 square miles of land, which is 387 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Rising Star in?
Eastland 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 Rising Star?
$37,037. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $39,500. Median gross rent is $707 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Rising Star in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Rising Star appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480795, 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 Rising Star figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Eastland 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 Rising Star.
Is zoning published for Rising Star?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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