Mesquite is home to 515 people in Texas. This skews young, with a median age of 21.1. 0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, below the 36% national rate. The poverty rate is 62.9%, above the 12.5% national rate. 10% of homes are owner-occupied. Since 2023 the city has more than doubled, up 296 people.
Shares are "alone or in combination": a person with both Medicare and Medicaid counts in each, so categories overlap and do not sum to 100%.
Section 09 · Service history
Veterans
Over time
Mesquite, decade by decade
Mesquite population, inflation-adjusted income and home value, education, and diversity by year
Year
Population
Median household income
Median home value
Bachelor's degree+
Diversity score
2010
505
$30,286
$56,104
23.8%
10.4
2020
479
–
$132,597
0.0%
5.6
2024
515
–
–
0.0%
0.0
Census years come from the decennial census and the latest year from the American Community Survey, so part of any change between those two rows can reflect the different surveys. Dollar figures are adjusted for inflation to 2024 dollars; a figure ending in "+" was at the Census Bureau's reporting cap that year. The diversity score runs from 0 to 100; see how it's calculated.
