Town · Coke County, Texas

Bronte, Texas

Bronte is a town in Coke County, Texas. It has 1,041 residents. Bronte, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,153 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #342 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), property crime rate (low) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), food environment index (low) and preventable hospital stays (high).

29Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,153 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #342 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,041 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 725.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4810528

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 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.

Safety79#3,241/15,637
Economy33#10,437/15,631
Housing38#9,235/14,977
Health33#10,431/15,609
Healthcare3#15,199/15,650
Environment71#4,433/15,453
Education18#12,777/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,843/15,650
Community57#6,732/15,651
Leisure & amenities43#8,858/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Bronte, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Coke 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 dataCoke County value
Property crime rate · low176 /100k
99/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCoke County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataCoke County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCoke County value
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Students per teacher · low10.2×
97/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsCoke County value

Weaknesses

Dentists · low0 /100k
0/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCoke County value
Food environment index · low4.0
0/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCoke County value
Preventable hospital stays · high5,947 /100k
1/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCoke County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCoke County value
Distance to an emergency room · high24.7 mi
1/100Texas 5.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCoke County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high169 mi
3/100Texas 43 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCoke County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
949 (2015-2019) → 1,041 (2020-2024)
+9.7%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
18.3% (2015-2019) → 47.6% (2020-2024)
+29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
65.8% (2015-2019) → 86.8% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+94%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
19.1% (2015-2019) → 34.2% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
2.7 /1k (2021) → 1.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−64%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k

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, Bronte, Texas improved on 1 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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

Broadband+21 points65.8% → 86.8%

Declined1

Price / income+1.5×1.6× → 3.1×

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Bronte, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.3 min2015-2019	33.8 min2020-2024	+6.4 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.9%2015-2019	15.1%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	75%
Broadband subscriptions	65.8%2015-2019	86.8%2020-2024	+21 points	Improved	91%
Effective property tax rate	1.63%2015-2019	1.18%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	88%
High school diploma or higher	80.8%2015-2019	89.8%2020-2024	+9 points	Within the margin of error	94%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.5×	Declined	9%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3712015-2019	0.4032020-2024	+0.032	Within the margin of error	25%
Median household income	$48,3062015-2019	$47,6142020-2024	−1.4%	Within the margin of error	6%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	18.8%2015-2019	17.1%2020-2024	−1.7 points	Within the margin of error	66%

“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 Bronte, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Bronte, 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, Bronte, Texas itself moved −5.4 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

1,041 residents (±136)

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

448 households (±76)

Bronte, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k26%†116
$25k–50k29%†129
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

448 households (±76)

Bronte, Texas
Texas share

Own64%285
Rent36%†163

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

418 workers (±75)

Bronte, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone80%334
Carpool16%†65
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 Coke County, the county holding most of Bronte's residents.

Coke County has 63 employer establishments, 187 for every 10,000 residents (0.75× the US rate of 248; 0.85× Texas's), with 225 paid employees at an average annual pay of $38,942. The Census Bureau also counts 318 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 63; 318 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 187; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 225
Average annual pay: $38,942; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	6	17.8	3.20×Too few to compare	10	$24,800	—
Restaurants and other eating places	6	17.8	0.97×Too few to compare	16	$21,063	—
Specialty trade contractors	6	17.8	1.15×Too few to compare	36	$36,722	45
Full-service restaurants	4	11.8	1.54×Too few to compare	12	$21,667	—
Building equipment contractors	3	8.9	1.48×Too few to compare	20	$46,500	3
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	11
Advertising, public relations and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	3
Ambulatory health care services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	7
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Architectural, engineering and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	9

Rank places for an industry Open Coke County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 3,378 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: Bronte is mostly in Coke County.

See federal money in Coke 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.

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

House

August PflugerR-TX-11 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%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.

Coke County42100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Coke County

Largest first.

Robert Lee946

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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