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Cost of living in Santa Fe, Texas

Santa Fe, Texas has about 12,901 people. Typical rent is $1,240 a month, including utilities, and a typical household earns $99,190 a year. Both figures are Census 2020–2024 medians, not a listing or your pay. This site does not approve or deny benefits. A missing figure stays blank. We do not guess it.

Ranked #77 in Texas on the 2026 Most Affordable Towns Index.

Simple answer

Typical rent is $1,240 a month.

Santa Fe is a city in Texas. That rent number includes utilities. A typical household earns $99,190 a year.

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People
12,901
Census average, 2020–2024
Typical rent
$1,240
Median gross rent, includes utilities
Typical pay
$99,190
Median household income, yearly
Typical home
$325,800
Median home value
2-bedroom fair rent
$1,497
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX HUD Metro FMR Area
Gas
$3.889
Texas, week of October 12, 2026

Santa Fe, Texas has about 12,901 people. That count is a 2020–2024 Census average, not a headcount from one day.

A typical home is worth about $325,800.

HUD's fair-market rent for a 2-bedroom in Galveston County is $1,497 a month. That is the county number, not an apartment listing in Santa Fe. It runs from October 2026 through September 2027.

In the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area, prices sit at 98.6 when the U.S. average is 100. That is a 2024 BEA index.

Texas does not tax wages. A typical combined sales tax is 8.2% as of January 1, 2026. That mix is statewide, not Santa Fe's exact store tax.

In July 2026, a typical Texas home paid 15.88¢ per kilowatt-hour. That is a state average from EIA, not Santa Fe's bill.

For the week of October 12, 2026, EIA's all-grades gasoline price in Texas was $3.889 a gallon. At 12,000 miles a year and 25 mpg, the index counts that as $1,866.72 a year. Those miles are our standard, not a Census figure, and every town in Texas shares this price.

Among 885 places we list in Texas with a rent figure, 355 have higher typical rent than Santa Fe.

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USDA has a live map of stores that take SNAP. We did not copy that store list here. The downloadable file is a history file for 2005 through 2025, so the live map is the one to use.

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Bigger places in Texas

Census 2020-2024. HUD rents for October 2026–September 2027. BEA prices for 2024. Taxes as of January 1, 2026. Checked 2026-10-16. 15,000 places are in this guide.