Baytown vs Deer Park

A side-by-side comparison of Baytown and Deer Park: population, income, housing, and more.

Baytown and Deer Park are places in Texas. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Baytown has the higher population (84,538 vs 33,823 in Deer Park). Deer Park has the higher median household income ($95,233 vs $61,699 in Baytown). Deer Park has the higher median home value ($238,900 vs $187,900 in Baytown).

Population, income & housing

	Baytown	Deer Park
Population	84,538	33,823
Median age	33.9 yrs	37.6 yrs
Median household income	$61,699	$95,233
Median home value	$187,900	$238,900
Median gross rent	$1,217	$1,299
Housing units	33,865	12,569
Homeownership rate	53.1%	78.6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.0%	25.5%
Unemployment rate	9.0%	5.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Baytown	Deer Park
Population	76,635 → 84,538 (+10.3%)	33,855 → 33,823 (-0.1%)
Median household income	$57,270 → $61,699 (+7.7%)	$80,592 → $95,233 (+18.2%)
Median home value	$119,900 → $187,900 (+56.7%)	$173,400 → $238,900 (+37.8%)
Median gross rent	$945 → $1,217 (+28.8%)	$1,170 → $1,299 (+11.0%)

Baytown

Population

76,63584,538

Median household income

$57,270$61,699

Median home value

$119,900$187,900

Median gross rent

$945$1,217

Deer Park

Population

33,85533,823

Median household income

$80,592$95,233

Median home value

$173,400$238,900

Median gross rent

$1,170$1,299

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Baytown	Deer Park
Under 5	7.4%	6.1%
5 to 17	20.3%	19.4%
18 to 24	8.5%	10.7%
25 to 34	15.6%	10.6%
35 to 44	13.0%	14.5%
45 to 54	13.7%	11.1%
55 to 64	9.9%	11.2%
65 to 74	7.1%	10.4%
75 and over	4.4%	6.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Baytown	Deer Park
White (non-Hispanic)	28.8%	55.6%
Black or African American	15.2%	2.8%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.1%	0.2%
Asian	2.3%	0.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.0%
Some other race	0.4%	0.0%
Two or more races	2.4%	2.8%
Hispanic or Latino	50.8%	38.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Baytown	Deer Park
No high school diploma	21.3%	9.9%
High school graduate	31.6%	29.1%
Some college or associate's	32.1%	35.5%
Bachelor's degree	9.5%	18.2%
Graduate or professional degree	5.5%	7.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Baytown	Deer Park
Drove alone	81.9%	81.8%
Carpooled	9.6%	8.9%
Public transit	0.6%	0.1%
Walked	0.9%	0.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.1%
Worked from home	4.9%	7.6%
Other means	2.1%	1.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Baytown	Deer Park
1-unit, detached	59.0%	78.9%
1-unit, attached	1.7%	0.8%
2 to 4 units	5.8%	3.2%
5 to 19 units	17.3%	4.1%
20 or more units	9.7%	7.5%
Mobile home & other	6.6%	5.4%

Poverty & households

	Baytown	Deer Park
Poverty rate	17.7%	8.2%
Average household size	2.70	2.85
Mean commute (minutes)	25	24
Median year structure built	1981	1981