Census-designated place · Victoria County, Texas

Bloomington, Texas

Bloomington is a census-designated place in Victoria County, Texas, part of the Victoria, TX metro area. It has 1,895 residents. Bloomington, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 6 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,688 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #857 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), median Air Quality Index (low) and days with unhealthy air (low). It ranks worst on public libraries (low), grocery stores (low) and bachelor's degree or higher (low).

6Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,688 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #857 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,895 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 715.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 4808800

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.

Safety23#12,095/15,637
Economy17#12,971/15,631
Housing31#10,339/14,977
Health34#10,239/15,609
Healthcare23#12,080/15,650
Environment42#8,988/15,453
Education3#15,167/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,907/15,650
Community6#14,785/15,651
Leisure & amenities27#11,438/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Child care cost burden · low19.0%
96/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVictoria County value
Median Air Quality Index · low34
88/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyVictoria County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyVictoria County value
Comfortable days · high31.2%
84/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationVictoria County value
Job growth · high1.5%
84/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataVictoria County value
Depression · low19.9%
81/100Texas 21.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.1 /10k
1/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesVictoria County value
Grocery stores · low0.4 /10k
1/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsVictoria County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low4.1%
2/100Texas 33.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high37.7%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Rent as share of income · high51.0%
2/100Texas 30.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Reading scores · low2.51
2/100Texas 2.89United States 3.052018University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteVictoria County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
1,783 (2015-2019) → 1,895 (2020-2024)
+6.3%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
25.3% (2015-2019) → 80.2% (2020-2024)
+55 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Average commute timeWorsening
18.8 min (2015-2019) → 43.0 min (2020-2024)
+128%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
27.5% (2015-2019) → 51.0% (2020-2024)
+24 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateWorsening
24.0% (2015-2019) → 45.5% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.3× (2015-2019) → 2.4× (2020-2024)
+93%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Bloomington, Texas improved on 2 of 6 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 4 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.

Improved2

Broadband+55 points25.3% → 80.2%
Household income+57%$33,576 → $52,666

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 6 measures

Change of every measure of Bloomington, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	25.3%2015-2019	80.2%2020-2024	+55 points	Improved	100%
High school diploma or higher	68.1%2015-2019	76.8%2020-2024	+8.8 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3222015-2019	0.4582020-2024	+0.136	Within the margin of error	2%
Median household income	$33,5762015-2019	$52,6662020-2024	+57%	Improved	89%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	40.6%2015-2019	37.7%2020-2024	−2.9 points	Within the margin of error	76%

“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 Bloomington, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bloomington, 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 Bloomington, Texas five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Bloomington, Texas itself moved −11.6 points in standing on average over the same 4 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

1,895 residents (±783)

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

489 households (±174)

Bloomington, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k31%†150
$25k–50k18%†89
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

489 households (±174)

Bloomington, Texas
Texas share

Own71%†349
Rent29%†140

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

630 workers (±296)

Bloomington, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone63%†397
Carpool32%†204
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Victoria, TX

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 Victoria County, the county holding most of Bloomington's residents.

Victoria County has 2,255 employer establishments, 246 for every 10,000 residents (0.99× the US rate of 248; 1.13× Texas's), with 31,294 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,116. The Census Bureau also counts 7,942 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,255; 7,942 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 246; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 31,294
Average annual pay: $52,116; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	223	24.3	1.17×About typical	2,596	$60,883	374
Restaurants and other eating places	163	17.8	0.97×About typical	3,456	$20,949	49
Specialty trade contractors	122	13.3	0.86×About typical	1,196	$62,729	942
Offices of physicians	89	9.7	1.50×More than typical	728	$74,799	71
Lessors of real estate	82	8.9	0.73×Fewer than typical	246	$30,207	555
Limited-service restaurants	79	8.6	1.07×About typical	1,935	$18,568	14
Full-service restaurants	65	7.1	0.92×About typical	1,353	$24,010	23
Religious organizations	61	6.6	1.20×About typical	588	$24,728	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	59	6.4	0.95×About typical	322	$42,494	847
Building equipment contractors	54	5.9	0.98×About typical	678	$70,832	138
Offices of other health practitioners	52	5.7	0.93×About typical	215	$45,693	121
Construction of buildings	51	5.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	252	$52,071	303

Rank places for an industry Open Victoria County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 91,757 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 Bloomington, 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

-1.5KFY2018

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

Bloomington, Texas's figures are part of those of Victoria County, TX ($2.4M 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: Bloomington is mostly in Victoria County.

See federal money in Victoria 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.

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

House

Michael CloudR-TX-27 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.5%

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.

Victoria County24100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Victoria, TX21

Other cities and towns in Victoria 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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