City · Parmer County, Texas

Bovina, Texas

Bovina is a city in Parmer County, Texas. It has 1,488 residents. Bovina, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 27 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,501 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #376 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), firearm deaths (low) and rent as share of income (low). It ranks worst on mental health providers (low), natural hazard risk (high) and access to exercise opportunities (low).

27Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,501 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #376 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,488 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,263.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4809628

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety86#2,129/15,637
Economy22#12,160/15,631
Housing89#1,667/14,977
Health60#6,249/15,609
Healthcare1#15,417/15,650
Environment50#7,708/15,453
Education12#13,776/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,973/15,650
Community15#13,299/15,651
Leisure & amenities13#13,542/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Texas 14.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataParmer County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionParmer County value
Rent as share of income · low13.3%
99/100Texas 30.9%United States 30.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25071
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataParmer County value
Property crime rate · low255 /100k
98/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureParmer County value
Students per teacher · low10.5×
96/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsParmer County value

Weaknesses

Mental health providers · low10 /100k
0/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteParmer County value
Natural hazard risk · high99.0
1/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyParmer County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low17.3%
1/100Texas 82.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteParmer County value
Primary care physicians · low10 /100k
1/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteParmer County value
Dentists · low10 /100k
1/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteParmer County value
Voter turnout · low46.2%
2/100Texas 57.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionParmer County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
55.9% (2015-2019) → 89.4% (2020-2024)
+34 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
33.9% (2015-2019) → 11.4% (2020-2024)
−22 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
30.5% (2015-2019) → 13.4% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
26.9% (2015-2019) → 13.3% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Average commute timeWorsening
14.4 min (2015-2019) → 22.2 min (2020-2024)
+54%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Median household incomeImproving
$34,847 (2015-2019) → $48,500 (2020-2024)
+39%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Bovina, Texas improved on 2 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 9 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+34 points55.9% → 89.4%
Rent / income−14 points26.9% → 13.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Bovina, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	14.4 min2015-2019	22.2 min2020-2024	+7.8 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.4%2015-2019	10.6%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Broadband subscriptions	55.9%2015-2019	89.4%2020-2024	+34 points	Improved	99%
High school diploma or higher	60.0%2015-2019	53.8%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	4%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	74%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4292015-2019	0.4752020-2024	+0.045	Within the margin of error	19%
Median household income	$34,8472015-2019	$48,5002020-2024	+39%	Within the margin of error	73%
Poverty rate	24.0%2015-2019	16.4%2020-2024	−7.6 points	Within the margin of error	88%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	26.9%2015-2019	13.3%2020-2024	−14 points	Improved	96%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	24.5%2015-2019	17.7%2020-2024	−6.7 points	Within the margin of error	91%

“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 Bovina, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bovina, 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, Bovina, Texas itself moved +3.6 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

1,488 residents (±372)

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

462 households (±116)

Bovina, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k25%†116
$25k–50k26%†118
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

462 households (±116)

Bovina, Texas
Texas share

Own68%†312
Rent32%†150

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

686 workers (±199)

Bovina, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone78%537
Carpool14%†94
Public transit0.0%0

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 Parmer County, the county holding most of Bovina's residents.

Parmer County has 213 employer establishments, 221 for every 10,000 residents (0.89× the US rate of 248; 1.01× Texas's), with 4,265 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,455. The Census Bureau also counts 590 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 213; 590 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 221; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 4,265
Average annual pay: $53,455; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	19	19.7	3.90×More than typical	137	$66,292	78
Religious organizations	12	12.5	2.25×More than typical	67	$12,269	—
Specialty trade contractors	11	11.4	0.74×Fewer than typical	76	$54,395	33
Commercial and industrial machinery repair	9	9.3	13.7×Too few to compare	53	$51,057	—
Construction of buildings	9	9.3	1.24×Too few to compare	29	$43,276	16
Restaurants and other eating places	9	9.3	0.51×Too few to compare	73	$10,041	4
Building equipment contractors	7	7.3	1.21×Too few to compare	59	$58,169	5
Gasoline stations	7	7.3	2.24×Too few to compare	68	$20,574	—
Lessors of real estate	7	7.3	0.59×Too few to compare	4	$78,000	24
Banks and credit unions	6	6.2	1.93×Too few to compare	48	$88,604	—
Ambulatory health care services	5	5.2	0.25×Too few to compare	56	$35,661	17
Automotive repair and maintenance	5	5.2	1.03×Too few to compare	17	$42,412	25

Rank places for an industry Open Parmer County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,626 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: Bovina is mostly in Parmer County.

See federal money in Parmer 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.

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

House

Jodey C. ArringtonR-TX-19 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 3.3%

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.

Parmer County37100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Parmer 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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