Fort Hood vs Temple

A side-by-side comparison of Fort Hood and Temple: population, income, housing, and more.

Fort Hood and Temple are places in Texas. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Temple has the higher population (86,358 vs 25,786 in Fort Hood). Temple has the higher median household income ($64,945 vs $59,661 in Fort Hood). Since 2019, Temple's population has grown faster (+15.5% vs +9.7%).

Population, income & housing

	Fort Hood	Temple
Population	25,786	86,358
Median age	21.8 yrs	33.8 yrs
Median household income	$59,661	$64,945
Median home value	—	$220,300
Median gross rent	$1,368	$1,174
Housing units	6,931	35,228
Homeownership rate	0.3%	52.9%
Bachelor's degree or higher	27.2%	29.5%
Unemployment rate	13.2%	7.2%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Fort Hood	Temple
Population	23,508 → 25,786 (+9.7%)	74,762 → 86,358 (+15.5%)
Median household income	$44,718 → $59,661 (+33.4%)	$54,873 → $64,945 (+18.4%)
Median home value	—	$143,400 → $220,300 (+53.6%)
Median gross rent	$1,252 → $1,368 (+9.3%)	$889 → $1,174 (+32.1%)

Fort Hood

Population

23,50825,786

Median household income

$44,718$59,661

Median gross rent

$1,252$1,368

Temple

Population

74,76286,358

Median household income

$54,873$64,945

Median home value

$143,400$220,300

Median gross rent

$889$1,174

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Fort Hood	Temple
Under 5	11.6%	8.0%
5 to 17	14.5%	19.6%
18 to 24	40.7%	8.8%
25 to 34	22.4%	15.7%
35 to 44	7.5%	13.3%
45 to 54	2.1%	9.8%
55 to 64	0.7%	9.7%
65 to 74	0.2%	8.0%
75 and over	0.4%	7.1%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Fort Hood	Temple
White (non-Hispanic)	47.6%	50.6%
Black or African American	18.4%	12.7%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.2%	0.1%
Asian	3.2%	2.1%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	1.5%	0.1%
Some other race	0.1%	0.2%
Two or more races	7.0%	5.0%
Hispanic or Latino	22.0%	29.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Fort Hood	Temple
No high school diploma	2.1%	11.9%
High school graduate	19.6%	25.7%
Some college or associate's	51.2%	32.9%
Bachelor's degree	18.5%	18.5%
Graduate or professional degree	8.7%	11.0%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Fort Hood	Temple
Drove alone	56.4%	77.3%
Carpooled	8.2%	11.1%
Public transit	0.6%	0.3%
Walked	22.4%	0.6%
Bicycle	0.1%	0.2%
Worked from home	11.4%	9.3%
Other means	0.9%	1.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Fort Hood	Temple
1-unit, detached	17.2%	65.4%
1-unit, attached	73.5%	2.3%
2 to 4 units	6.2%	9.6%
5 to 19 units	1.4%	11.1%
20 or more units	1.0%	8.8%
Mobile home & other	0.7%	2.8%

Poverty & households

	Fort Hood	Temple
Poverty rate	12.3%	17.3%
Average household size	3.36	2.61
Mean commute (minutes)	11	21
Median year structure built	1977	1990