City · Texas County, Missouri

Cabool, Missouri

Cabool is a city in Texas County, Missouri. It has 2,348 residents. Cabool, Missouri has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,751 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Missouri it ranks #308 of 375 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), grocery stores (high) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on arts, entertainment and recreation (low), average weekly wage (low) and median household income (low).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,751 of 15,651 cities and towns
Missouri: #308 of 375 in MO
Population: 2,348 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 583.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 2910288

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety33#10,442/15,637
Economy11#13,929/15,631
Housing73#4,025/14,977
Health10#14,069/15,609
Healthcare5#14,900/15,650
Environment82#2,739/15,453
Education37#9,787/15,649
Infrastructure15#13,277/15,650
Community70#4,725/15,651
Leisure & amenities13#13,588/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Cabool, Missouri ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Texas County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Students per teacher · low11.1×
93/100Missouri 12.7×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsTexas County value
Grocery stores · high2.7 /10k
92/100Missouri 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTexas County value
Unemployment rate · low1.4%
89/100Missouri 4.0%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Public libraries · high1.6 /10k
87/100Missouri 0.6 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesTexas County value
Average commute time · low17.7 min
87/100Missouri 23.5 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Time spent in the emergency room · low123 min
86/100Missouri 161 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesTexas County value

Weaknesses

Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.0 /10k
1/100Missouri 4.6 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTexas County value
Average weekly wage · low$836
2/100Missouri $1,278United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTexas County value
Median household income · low$33,929
3/100Missouri $71,583United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Injury deaths · high153 /100k
3/100Missouri 106 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTexas County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Missouri 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTexas County value
Dentists · low20 /100k
4/100Missouri 64 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTexas County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

New homes permittedWorsening
0.4 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
57.8% (2015-2019) → 41.0% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
23.4% (2015-2019) → 6.8% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
51.4% (2015-2019) → 39.0% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
38.8% (2015-2019) → 26.7% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Unemployment rateImproving
13.0% (2015-2019) → 1.4% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Cabool, Missouri improved on 1 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Uninsured−17 points23.4% → 6.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Cabool, Missouri between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.7 min2015-2019	17.7 min2020-2024	+2.0 min	Within the margin of error	27%
Bachelor's degree or higher	15.5%2015-2019	20.1%2020-2024	+4.6 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Broadband subscriptions	66.7%2015-2019	76.8%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Child poverty rate	51.4%2015-2019	39.0%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Effective property tax rate	0.69%2015-2019	0.62%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	29%
High school diploma or higher	82.5%2015-2019	84.9%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Home price to income ratio	3.6×2015-2019	3.8×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	66%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4982015-2019	0.4712020-2024	−0.027	Within the margin of error	72%
Median household income	$25,3992015-2019	$33,9292020-2024	+34%	Within the margin of error	63%
Poverty rate	36.1%2015-2019	28.9%2020-2024	−7.3 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Rent as share of income	38.8%2015-2019	26.7%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Rent-burdened households	57.8%2015-2019	41.0%2020-2024	−17 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	23.4%2015-2019	6.8%2020-2024	−17 points	Improved	99%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Cabool, Missouri five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Cabool, Missouri in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Cabool, Missouri itself moved +12.9 points in standing on average over the same 10 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

2,348 residents (±222)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

974 households (±140)

Cabool, Missouri
Missouri share

Under $25k40%390
$25k–50k23%†228
$50k–75k16%†154

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

974 households (±140)

Cabool, Missouri
Missouri share

Own53%520
Rent47%454

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

910 workers (±142)

Cabool, Missouri
Missouri share

Drive alone76%692
Carpool15%†137
Public transit0.1%†1

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Texas County, the county holding most of Cabool's residents.

Texas County has 433 employer establishments, 169 for every 10,000 residents (0.68× the US rate of 248; 0.69× Missouri's), with 4,555 paid employees at an average annual pay of $39,629. The Census Bureau also counts 1,895 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 433; 1,895 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 169; US 248 · Missouri 244
Paid employees: 4,555
Average annual pay: $39,629; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Texas County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Religious organizations	29	11.3	2.04×More than typical	93	$15,774	—
Restaurants and other eating places	24	9.4	0.51×Fewer than typical	307	$16,779	18
Ambulatory health care services	22	8.6	0.41×Fewer than typical	87	$48,759	37
Truck transportation	21	8.2	1.62×More than typical	352	$37,557	117
Specialty trade contractors	20	7.8	0.50×Fewer than typical	84	$54,083	237
Gasoline stations	19	7.4	2.29×More than typical	161	$22,149	—
Construction of buildings	13	5.1	0.67×Fewer than typical	55	$58,709	171
Offices of other health practitioners	13	5.1	0.84×About typical	36	$39,806	23
Banks and credit unions	11	4.3	1.33×More than typical	119	$52,790	—
Full-service restaurants	11	4.3	0.56×Fewer than typical	111	$14,730	—
Limited-service restaurants	11	4.3	0.54×Fewer than typical	187	$17,898	9
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	10	3.9	2.24×More than typical	54	$26,333	5

Rank places for an industry Open Texas County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 25,613 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Cabool, Missouri: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

-1.4KFY2017

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Cabool, Missouri, so they do not add up across cities.

Cabool, Missouri's figures are part of those of Texas County, MO ($174.5K in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Cabool is mostly in Texas County.

See federal money in Texas County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Cabool, Missouri is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Jason SmithR-MO-8 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.3%

Senate

Explore Congress The 2026 races

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Texas County19100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Texas County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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