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Bridge City, Texas

Bridge City is a city in Orange County, Texas, part of the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area. It has 9,640 residents. Bridge City, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 14 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,531 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #643 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on broadband subscriptions (high), child care cost burden (low) and home price to income ratio (low). It ranks worst on primary care physicians (low), mental health providers (low) and distance to an emergency room (high).

14Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,531 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #643 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 9,640 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 1,537.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4810252

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety27#11,405/15,637
Economy63#5,724/15,631
Housing35#9,800/14,977
Health27#11,375/15,609
Healthcare5#14,945/15,650
Environment19#12,528/15,453
Education16#13,149/15,649
Infrastructure60#6,275/15,650
Community7#14,515/15,651
Leisure & amenities12#13,750/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Broadband subscriptions · high96.9%
91/100Texas 91.3%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Child care cost burden · low21.9%
89/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.3×
85/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOrange County value
Comfortable days · high30.3%
79/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationOrange County value
Property crime rate · low750 /100k
72/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureOrange County value

Weaknesses

Primary care physicians · low18 /100k
3/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value
Mental health providers · low41 /100k
4/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value
Distance to an emergency room · high14.3 mi
8/100Texas 5.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesOrange County value
Life expectancy · low72.2 yrs
8/100Texas 77.2 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value
Restaurants and bars · low4.9 /10k
9/100Texas 7.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOrange County value
Premature death · high12,594 /100k
10/100Texas 7,960 /100kUnited States 8,123 /100k2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteOrange County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
7,961 (2015-2019) → 9,640 (2020-2024)
+21%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
4.3 /1k (2021) → 0.1 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−98%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
34.9% (2015-2019) → 54.4% (2020-2024)
+19 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.9% (2015-2019) → 96.9% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
23.0% (2015-2019) → 33.6% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 2.3× (2020-2024)
+42%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, Bridge City, Texas improved on 1 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved1

Broadband+13 points83.9% → 96.9%

Declined1

Inequality+0.1150.351 → 0.466

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Bridge City, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	22.0 min2015-2019	24.3 min2020-2024	+2.3 min	Within the margin of error	25%
Bachelor's degree or higher	21.1%2015-2019	22.3%2020-2024	+1.3 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Broadband subscriptions	83.9%2015-2019	96.9%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	73%
Effective property tax rate	1.47%2015-2019	1.57%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	6%
High school diploma or higher	94.4%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	−4.7 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	37%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3512015-2019	0.4662020-2024	+0.115	Declined	3%
Median household income	$83,8852015-2019	$88,9582020-2024	+6%	Within the margin of error	12%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	34.9%2015-2019	54.4%2020-2024	+19 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	12.4%2015-2019	10.2%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	70%

“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 Bridge City, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bridge City, 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, Bridge City, Texas itself moved −20.4 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

9,640 residents (±28)

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

3,458 households (±291)

Bridge City, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k14%†475
$25k–50k18%†627
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,458 households (±291)

Bridge City, Texas
Texas share

Own76%2,645
Rent24%†813

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

4,321 workers (±486)

Bridge City, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone93%4,012
Carpool1.2%†52
Public transit0.0%0

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 Beaumont-Port Arthur, 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 Orange County, the county holding most of Bridge City's residents.

Orange County has 1,333 employer establishments, 156 for every 10,000 residents (0.63× the US rate of 248; 0.71× Texas's), with 19,068 paid employees at an average annual pay of $62,513. The Census Bureau also counts 6,266 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,333; 6,266 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 156; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 19,068
Average annual pay: $62,513; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	121	14.1	0.77×Fewer than typical	2,093	$18,065	25
Specialty trade contractors	82	9.6	0.62×Fewer than typical	1,449	$68,019	654
Ambulatory health care services	78	9.1	0.44×Fewer than typical	670	$52,652	203
Religious organizations	70	8.2	1.47×More than typical	435	$20,407	—
Limited-service restaurants	57	6.7	0.83×About typical	1,198	$17,533	8
Gasoline stations	47	5.5	1.69×More than typical	267	$28,461	4
Lessors of real estate	47	5.5	0.45×Fewer than typical	89	$43,663	316
Insurance agencies and brokerages	42	4.9	1.12×About typical	126	$45,357	84
Building equipment contractors	40	4.7	0.78×Fewer than typical	995	$73,621	108
Full-service restaurants	35	4.1	0.53×Fewer than typical	761	$19,092	12
Grocery and convenience stores	35	4.1	1.38×More than typical	714	$22,338	18
Automotive repair and maintenance	34	4	0.79×Fewer than typical	270	$39,181	143

Rank places for an industry Open Orange County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 85,705 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 Bridge City, Texas: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
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

5.5MFY2020
73.5KFY2021
1.3MFY2022
8.6MFY2023
967.8KFY2024
513KFY2025

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 Bridge City, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Bridge City, Texas's figures are part of those of Orange County, TX ($2.5M 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: Bridge City is mostly in Orange County.

See federal money in Orange 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.

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

House

Randy K. Weber, Sr.R-TX-14 · 100% of residentsWith party 100%Missed 2.2%

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.

Orange County21100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX7

Other cities and towns in Orange 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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