Lake KiowaTX
A town of 2,476.
Is Lake Kiowa a good place to live?
The best of Lake Kiowa’s subject grades is an A for incomes; the weakest is a D for cost of living. 37% of residents are 65 or older in Lake Kiowa, where Texas’ towns sit at 14% and U.S. towns at 18%. On cost of living, just 47 of Texas’ 998 towns do worse. Lake Kiowa's schools rank ahead of 68% of Texas towns. Lake Kiowa has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Lake Kiowa stand out
Where Lake Kiowa beats most towns.
Lake Kiowa has grown 18% from 2010 to 2020
1,906 counted in 2010 and 2,254 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Lake Kiowa grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Lake Kiowa is from typical.
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Moving to Lake Kiowa: who provides what
Lake Kiowa is unincorporated, so Cooke County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake Kiowa.
Lake Kiowa’s typical home value is about $531K
The typical Lake Kiowa home is worth about $531,000, down 1.1% in a year, 79% above the Texas typical home. At $1,815 a month, Lake Kiowa’s median rent is against $1,208 a month in Texas’ towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns. 93% of Lake Kiowa households own their home.
| Lake Kiowa | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 93% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,815 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
More of Lake Kiowa’s adults had a checkup this year than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
82% of adults had a checkup this year in Lake Kiowa. Lake Kiowa beats the Texas average on 17 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 7. 6.8% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Lake Kiowa.
| Lake Kiowa | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 17% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 35% | 35% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 74% | 79% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 6.8% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lake Kiowa | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 6.8% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.8% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 14.2% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Lake Kiowa’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Lake Kiowa for work: only 2% work in town. Lake Kiowa’s median household income is $126,000. Jobs based in Lake Kiowa grew to 201 in 2023, 92 more than in 2013.
| Lake Kiowa | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $126,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 2.1% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.2% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Lake Kiowa, expect mild winters and hot summers
Lake Kiowa has mild winters and hot summers. The July high in Lake Kiowa is 95°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Inland flooding leads a moderate hazard risk in Lake Kiowa
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 59% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
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Everything we know about Lake Kiowa
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Lake Kiowa
About 0 of every 100 Lake Kiowa residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
98% of working residents leave Lake Kiowa for work
Where Lake Kiowa’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Lake Kiowa
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Lake Kiowa is an affluent census-designated place (CDP) in Cooke County, Texas, United States, the majority of which consists of the private residential gated community of the same name. The population of Lake Kiowa was 1,906 in 2010. By 2020, the population had grown to 2,254, an 18.3% increase from the 2010 census. In 2023, the population was 2,496.
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- Area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 709 ft
- Area code
- 940
Questions about Lake Kiowa
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lake Kiowa, TX expensive?
Yes. That is 7.2 years of the area's median household income ($73,932 across the Gainesville, TX area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.