Muleshoe, TX

ZIP code 79347 is assigned to Muleshoe, TX, and falls within Bailey County. Like every US postal code, it began as a mail-routing device rather than a geographic boundary — the US Postal Service groups delivery routes under a single code so carriers and sorting equipment can process mail efficiently. Today it also serves as a practical shorthand for the area itself: roughly 7,264 people live inside it.

At 11 residents per square mile spread over 684.022 square miles, 79347 reads as a rural area. It is a smaller postal code by population, and density shapes almost everything else on this page — how people get to work, whether they own or rent, and what housing costs.

Household earnings track close to the national picture. The median of $71,025 puts 79347 near the middle of the pack, ahead of 52% of them. The US median for comparison is $70,109. Bear in mind that median income describes the midpoint household, not the average — it is not pulled upward by a handful of very high earners the way a mean would be.

Housing in 79347 costs below the national median. A typical home is valued at $104,900 against a US median of $207,500, and median gross rent runs $748 a month. Ownership dominates: 77.0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, which usually signals an established residential area with relatively low turnover.

The building stock is dominated by detached single-family houses, which account for 84.4% of housing units here. The median construction year is 1969, making the housing here mid-century.

The population skews younger than the country as a whole, with a median age of 33.7 against 42 nationally. Households are relatively large at 3.15 people on average, with 74.8% classified as family households.

Getting to work takes 16.0 minutes on average one way. The dominant mode is drove alone at 73.8% of workers.

Beyond addressing mail, 79347 does a lot of quiet administrative work. Retailers use it to calculate shipping and sales tax at checkout. Insurers use it to set premiums, since risk profiles vary geographically. Employers and marketers use it to define service areas. Government agencies use it to route benefits and organise reporting. If you have ever been asked for a postal code by a form that clearly does not intend to send you anything, this is why.

For anyone weighing a move, 79347 offers a compact profile of Muleshoe: 7,264 residents, a median household income of $71,025, 16.9% of adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and an unemployment rate of 0.4%. A handful of figures like these answer more relocation questions than most neighbourhood guides do.

One caution worth repeating: a postal code is not a neighbourhood. 79347 may cover parts of several distinct areas, and a single neighbourhood in Muleshoe may be split across more than one code. Boundaries also shift as USPS adjusts delivery routes. Treat the figures here as describing a delivery area, which is what they actually measure.