Malakoff vs Tool

A side-by-side comparison of Malakoff and Tool: population, income, housing, and more.

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

Tool has the higher population (2,399 vs 2,227 in Malakoff). Tool has the higher median household income ($71,964 vs $53,378 in Malakoff). Tool has the higher median home value ($163,700 vs $84,000 in Malakoff).

Population, income & housing

	Malakoff	Tool
Population	2,227	2,399
Median age	38.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
Median household income	$53,378	$71,964
Median home value	$84,000	$163,700
Median gross rent	$820	$1,120
Housing units	1,043	1,699
Homeownership rate	55.7%	87.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.8%	28.3%
Unemployment rate	0.7%	3.7%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Malakoff	Tool
Population	2,760 → 2,227 (-19.3%)	2,214 → 2,399 (+8.4%)
Median household income	$29,185 → $53,378 (+82.9%)	$47,273 → $71,964 (+52.2%)
Median home value	$82,100 → $84,000 (+2.3%)	$104,300 → $163,700 (+57.0%)
Median gross rent	$707 → $820 (+16.0%)	$1,002 → $1,120 (+11.8%)

Malakoff

Population

2,7602,227

Median household income

$29,185$53,378

Median home value

$82,100$84,000

Median gross rent

$707$820

Tool

Population

2,2142,399

Median household income

$47,273$71,964

Median home value

$104,300$163,700

Median gross rent

$1,002$1,120

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Malakoff	Tool
Under 5	7.4%	2.8%
5 to 17	16.1%	11.3%
18 to 24	12.2%	8.0%
25 to 34	10.6%	11.2%
35 to 44	10.3%	7.8%
45 to 54	9.9%	18.0%
55 to 64	17.6%	20.0%
65 to 74	10.6%	14.7%
75 and over	5.3%	6.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Malakoff	Tool
White (non-Hispanic)	55.6%	91.0%
Black or African American	15.5%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.4%	0.1%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	5.7%	4.8%
Hispanic or Latino	22.7%	4.1%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Malakoff	Tool
No high school diploma	20.0%	11.5%
High school graduate	35.6%	34.5%
Some college or associate's	26.6%	25.8%
Bachelor's degree	14.3%	22.2%
Graduate or professional degree	3.5%	6.1%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Malakoff	Tool
Drove alone	84.7%	71.5%
Carpooled	4.4%	11.2%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	4.2%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	6.7%	12.2%
Other means	0.0%	5.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Malakoff	Tool
1-unit, detached	60.5%	73.3%
1-unit, attached	0.2%	0.3%
2 to 4 units	6.8%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	14.3%	2.7%
20 or more units	7.9%	0.6%
Mobile home & other	10.4%	23.1%

Poverty & households

	Malakoff	Tool
Poverty rate	24.3%	12.6%
Average household size	2.50	2.18
Mean commute (minutes)	21	44
Median year structure built	1979	1981