Census-designated place · Frio County, Texas

Bigfoot, Texas

Bigfoot is a census-designated place in Frio County, Texas. It has 1,067 residents. Bigfoot, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 8 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,424 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #801 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on poverty rate (low), job growth (high) and income inequality (Gini index) (low). It ranks worst on voter turnout (low), reading scores (low) and hot days (high).

8Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,424 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #801 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,067 (2020-2024)
Land area: 24 mi²
Density: 44.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4808164

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 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.

Safety68#5,006/15,637
Economy54#7,151/15,631
Housing—
Health23#12,022/15,609
Healthcare15#13,230/15,650
Environment21#12,205/15,453
Education6#14,751/15,649
Infrastructure2#15,307/15,650
Community1#15,492/15,651
Leisure & amenities9#14,293/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Poverty rate · low0.0%
100/100Texas 13.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Job growth · high6.4%
99/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataFrio County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.250
94/100Texas 0.478United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Property crime rate · low452 /100k
92/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationFrio County value
Violent crime rate · low83 /100k
90/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationFrio County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low127 min
83/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesFrio County value

Weaknesses

Voter turnout · low39.9%
1/100Texas 57.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionFrio County value
Reading scores · low2.40
1/100Texas 2.89United States 3.052018University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFrio County value
Hot days · high151 days
1/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationFrio County value
Mammography screening · low29.0%
2/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFrio County value
Mental health providers · low31 /100k
2/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteFrio County value
Traffic deaths · high42.5 /100k
3/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataFrio County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
441 (2015-2019) → 1,067 (2020-2024)
+142%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Poverty rateImproving
39.0% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−39 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
57.4% (2015-2019) → 65.9% (2020-2024)
+8.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.421 (2015-2019) → 0.251 (2020-2024)
−40%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483
Median household incomeImproving
$55,683 (2016-2020) → $69,418 (2020-2024)
+25%4 yearsCensus table B19013US $67,340 → $81,604
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 4.9% (2020-2024)
+4.9 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, Bigfoot, Texas improved on 0 of 2 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 2 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 2 measures

Change of every measure of Bigfoot, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4212015-2019	0.2512020-2024	−0.170	Within the margin of error	99%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15075 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 Bigfoot, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bigfoot, 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.

No place that looked like Bigfoot, Texas five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Bigfoot, Texas itself moved +49.8 points in standing on average over the same 1 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

1,067 residents (±595)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 20–29 men (+28.6 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,067 residents (±595)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

White19%†206
Black18%†192
Hispanic or Latino63%†669

Education

876 residents (±510)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

No high school diploma34%†299
High school or GED36%†314
Some college14%†

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

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

Household income

416 households (±228)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k6.5%†27
$25k–50k11%†45
$50k–75k42%†173
$75k–100k1.0%†4
$100k–150k30%†126
$150k–200k9.1%†38
$200k or more0.7%†3

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−46.7 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

416 households (±228)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

Own55%†230
Rent45%†186

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−44.7 points).

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Home values

230 homes (±134)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

Under $150k50%†114
$150k–250k0.0%0
$250k–400k34%†78

Age of homes

457 homes (±232)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

2010 or later17%†79
2000–200924%†110
1980–199941%†186

Size of homes

457 homes (±232)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.0%0
2 bedrooms45%†204

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

656 workers (±467)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone89%†581
Carpool11%†75
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home0.0%0
Other0.0%0

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

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

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

656 workers (±467)

Bigfoot, Texas
Texas share

Under 15 min30%†196
15–29 min45%†295
30–44 min25%†161

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Frio County, the county holding most of Bigfoot's residents.

Frio County has 295 employer establishments, 159 for every 10,000 residents (0.64× the US rate of 248; 0.73× Texas's), with 4,949 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,911. The Census Bureau also counts 1,350 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 295; 1,350 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 159; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 4,949
Average annual pay: $51,911; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	24	13	0.71×Fewer than typical	349	$16,052	18
Truck transportation	18	9.7	1.92×More than typical	261	$72,640	94
Ambulatory health care services	17	9.2	0.44×Fewer than typical	101	$51,574	22
Traveler accommodation	16	8.6	4.78×More than typical	137	$21,022	5
Limited-service restaurants	15	8.1	1.01×About typical	296	$14,307	4
Gasoline stations	13	7	2.16×More than typical	199	$33,859	—
Specialty trade contractors	13	7	0.45×Fewer than typical	36	$45,250	156
Automotive repair and maintenance	10	5.4	1.07×About typical	64	$44,125	49
Religious organizations	10	5.4	0.97×About typical	59	$23,169	—
Offices of physicians	8	4.3	0.67×Too few to compare	36	$40,556	—
Full-service restaurants	7	3.8	0.49×Too few to compare	43	$22,209	11
Grocery and convenience stores	6	3.2	1.09×Too few to compare	157	$33,503	—

Rank places for an industry Open Frio County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 18,530 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 Bigfoot, Texas: $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

8.3KFY2020

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 Bigfoot, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Bigfoot, Texas's figures are part of those of Frio County, TX ($40M 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: Bigfoot is mostly in Frio County.

See federal money in Frio 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.

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

Senate

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County

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

Frio County8100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Frio 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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