City · Duval County, Texas

Benavides, Texas

Benavides is a city in Duval County, Texas. It has 1,470 residents. Benavides, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 2 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,331 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #982 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on unemployment rate (low), home price to income ratio (low) and job growth (high). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), mental health providers (low) and social associations (low).

2Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,331 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #982 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,470 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 830.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 4807528

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 63 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.

Safety—
Economy17#13,006/15,631
Housing56#6,627/14,977
Health16#13,050/15,609
Healthcare0#15,575/15,650
Environment25#11,587/15,453
Education12#13,807/15,649
Infrastructure0#15,633/15,650
Community0#15,572/15,651
Leisure & amenities12#13,803/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Benavides, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Duval 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

Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Home price to income ratio · low1.6×
94/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077High uncertainty
Job growth · high1.7%
86/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataDuval County value
Students per teacher · low11.9×
85/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsDuval County value
Depression · low19.5%
83/100Texas 21.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Pharmacies · high2.1 /10k
79/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDuval County value

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.0 /10k
0/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesDuval County value
Mental health providers · low10 /100k
0/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDuval County value
Social associations · low0.0 /10k
0/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDuval County value
Hot days · high159 days
1/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDuval County value
Mammography screening · low28.0%
1/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDuval County value
Average weekly wage · low$812
1/100Texas $1,499United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDuval County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,604 (2015-2019) → 1,470 (2020-2024)
−8.4%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
31.5% (2015-2019) → 13.6% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
45.0% (2015-2019) → 28.2% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
28.3% (2015-2019) → 12.8% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
20.2% (2015-2019) → 10.4% (2020-2024)
−9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Unemployment rateImproving
7.3% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−7.3 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, Benavides, Texas improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 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−18 points31.5% → 13.6%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Benavides, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	29.2 min2015-2019	25.0 min2020-2024	−4.3 min	Within the margin of error	87%
Broadband subscriptions	65.4%2015-2019	62.3%2020-2024	−3.2 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Effective property tax rate	1.17%2015-2019	1.15%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	18%
High school diploma or higher	77.2%2015-2019	79.0%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	57%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4152015-2019	0.4532020-2024	+0.037	Within the margin of error	22%
Median household income	$34,3752015-2019	$45,2162020-2024	+32%	Within the margin of error	59%
Poverty rate	20.4%2015-2019	21.9%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	30%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	31.5%2015-2019	13.6%2020-2024	−18 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 Benavides, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Benavides, Texas 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, Benavides, Texas itself moved −3.3 points in standing on average over the same 6 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

1,470 residents (±389)

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

453 households (±155)

Benavides, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k34%†152
$25k–50k28%†125
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

453 households (±155)

Benavides, Texas
Texas share

Own55%†249
Rent45%†204

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−17.2 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

609 workers (±238)

Benavides, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone70%†425
Carpool19%†113
Public transit

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 Duval County, the county holding most of Benavides's residents.

Duval County has 144 employer establishments, 149 for every 10,000 residents (0.60× the US rate of 248; 0.68× Texas's), with 1,977 paid employees at an average annual pay of $37,651. The Census Bureau also counts 869 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 144; 869 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 149; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 1,977
Average annual pay: $37,651; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	10	10.4	0.56×Fewer than typical	67	$18,045	8
Management, scientific and technical consulting	8	8.3	1.24×Too few to compare	25	$45,560	25
Ambulatory health care services	6	6.2	0.30×Too few to compare	657	$14,365	28
Full-service restaurants	6	6.2	0.81×Too few to compare	45	$14,978	—
General merchandise stores	6	6.2	3.52×Too few to compare	41	$23,049	3
Specialty trade contractors	6	6.2	0.40×Too few to compare	104	$46,346	100
Heavy and civil engineering construction	5	5.2	4.52×Too few to compare	89	$46,753	5
Gasoline stations	4	4.1	1.28×Too few to compare	30	$30,867	—
Home health care services	4	4.1	3.43×Too few to compare	626	$14,133	15
Other specialty trade contractors	4	4.1	1.65×Too few to compare	101	$47,089	33
Truck transportation	4	4.1	0.82×Too few to compare	12	$63,833	37
Banks and credit unions	3	3.1	0.96×Too few to compare	57	$55,579	—

Rank places for an industry Open Duval County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,648 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Duval 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.

Benavides, Texas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Henry CuellarD-TX-28 · 100% of residentsWith party 65%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.

Duval County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Duval 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
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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