Lake KiowaTX
Population 2,476: a town in Texas.
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.
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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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
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Lake Kiowa.
A typical Lake Kiowa home is worth about $531K
The typical rent in Lake Kiowa is $1,815 a month. For households in the town, the share who are owner-occupiers is 93%. Homes sold in Lake Kiowa spent a median 126 days on the market.
| 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
In Lake Kiowa, just over a fifth of adults get no exercise outside work. Against the Texas average, Lake Kiowa comes out ahead on 17 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 7.
| 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
Most of Lake Kiowa’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.2 jobs for each of them
Among residents in Lake Kiowa, 2.1% live below the poverty line. Most working residents leave Lake Kiowa for work: only 2% work in town. In Lake Kiowa, the median household income is $126,000. The town had 201 jobs in 2023, up 92 from 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
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Top of a moderate hazard risk in Lake Kiowa: inland flooding
On expected storm and flood damage, Lake Kiowa sits below 59% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 43% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 30% to tornadoes. Federal aid has come to Lake Kiowa households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2021.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0% of Lake Kiowa is conserved land
1.8 miles of trail. Lake Kiowa’s concentration of trails comes in at 0.5 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Lake Kiowa
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.
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
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.
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.
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