City · Wichita County, Texas

Burkburnett, Texas

Burkburnett is a city in Wichita County, Texas, part of the Wichita Falls, TX metro area. It has 11,059 residents. Burkburnett, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 16 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,078 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #582 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on average commute time (low), child care cost burden (low) and home price to income ratio (low). It ranks worst on voter turnout (low), preventable hospital stays (high) and grocery stores (low).

16Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,078 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #582 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 11,059 (2020-2024)
Land area: 11 mi²
Density: 973.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4811368

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.

Safety12#13,685/15,637
Economy38#9,736/15,631
Housing47#7,962/14,977
Health25#11,650/15,609
Healthcare28#11,317/15,650
Environment47#8,133/15,453
Education16#13,212/15,649
Infrastructure60#6,326/15,650
Community7#14,617/15,651
Leisure & amenities15#13,278/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Average commute time · low17.5 min
91/100Texas 26.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Child care cost burden · low22.3%
87/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWichita County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.3×
86/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Primary care physicians · high89 /100k
75/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWichita County value
Dentists · high82 /100k
75/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWichita County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low149 min
67/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesWichita County value

Weaknesses

Voter turnout · low46.9%
2/100Texas 57.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionWichita County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,483 /100k
4/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWichita County value
Grocery stores · low0.8 /10k
6/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWichita County value
Hot days · high111 days
7/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationWichita County value
Distance to an airport · high110 mi
7/100Texas 33 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauWichita County value
Food environment index · low6.5
8/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWichita County value

Trends

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

Child poverty rateWorsening
17.4% (2015-2019) → 34.3% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
76.8% (2015-2019) → 92.0% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Median household incomeImproving
$48,236 (2015-2019) → $66,308 (2020-2024)
+37%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
New homes permittedWorsening
3.0 /1k (2021) → 2.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−35%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
43.9% (2015-2019) → 48.8% (2020-2024)
+4.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeImproving
20.8 min (2015-2019) → 17.5 min (2020-2024)
−16%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min

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, Burkburnett, Texas improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 11 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+15 points76.8% → 92.0%
Household income+37%$48,236 → $66,308

Declined1

Child poverty+17 points17.4% → 34.3%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Burkburnett, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.8 min2015-2019	17.5 min2020-2024	−3.3 min	Within the margin of error	81%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.7%2015-2019	22.8%2020-2024	+2.1 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Broadband subscriptions	76.8%2015-2019	92.0%2020-2024	+15 points	Improved	80%
Child poverty rate	17.4%2015-2019	34.3%2020-2024	+17 points	Declined	6%
Effective property tax rate	1.78%2015-2019	1.47%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	76%
High school diploma or higher	91.2%2015-2019	90.3%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	70%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4142015-2019	0.4212020-2024	+0.008	Within the margin of error	44%
Median household income	$48,2362015-2019	$66,3082020-2024	+37%	Improved	70%
Poverty rate	14.3%2015-2019	16.7%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Rent as share of income	28.0%2015-2019	29.6%2020-2024	+1.6 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Rent-burdened households	43.9%2015-2019	48.8%2020-2024	+4.9 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Unemployment rate	6.0%2015-2019	3.5%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.9%2015-2019	15.2%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	55%

“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 Burkburnett, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Burkburnett, 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, Burkburnett, Texas itself moved +0.9 points in standing on average over the same 10 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

11,059 residents (±23)

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

4,438 households (±256)

Burkburnett, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k17%758
$25k–50k19%826
$50k–75k21%†912

Homes

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

Owners and renters

4,438 households (±256)

Burkburnett, Texas
Texas share

Own69%3,063
Rent31%1,375

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+8.1 points).

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

5,162 workers (±431)

Burkburnett, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone76%3,921
Carpool14%†735
Public transit0.2%†11

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 Wichita Falls, 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 Wichita County, the county holding most of Burkburnett's residents.

Wichita County has 3,043 employer establishments, 234 for every 10,000 residents (0.94× the US rate of 248; 1.07× Texas's), with 44,613 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,926. The Census Bureau also counts 9,727 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 3,043; 9,727 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 234; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 44,613
Average annual pay: $44,926; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	311	23.9	1.15×About typical	3,621	$64,520	436
Restaurants and other eating places	224	17.2	0.94×About typical	5,584	$17,891	47
Specialty trade contractors	165	12.7	0.82×About typical	1,300	$59,518	711
Lessors of real estate	120	9.2	0.75×Fewer than typical	361	$36,496	701
Limited-service restaurants	119	9.2	1.14×About typical	3,140	$15,813	13
Offices of physicians	119	9.2	1.41×More than typical	1,227	$94,291	109
Religious organizations	84	6.5	1.17×About typical	789	$21,790	—
Building equipment contractors	82	6.3	1.05×About typical	831	$64,136	143
Automotive repair and maintenance	78	6	1.19×About typical	431	$43,276	158
Offices of other health practitioners	76	5.9	0.96×About typical	440	$42,382	177
Full-service restaurants	72	5.5	0.72×Fewer than typical	2,152	$21,076	23
Insurance agencies and brokerages	64	4.9	1.12×About typical	264	$70,758	164

Rank places for an industry Open Wichita County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 129,889 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 Burkburnett, 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

1.9KFY2017

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

Burkburnett, Texas's figures are part of those of Wichita County, TX ($182.5M 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: Burkburnett is mostly in Wichita County.

See federal money in Wichita 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.

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

House

Ronny JacksonR-TX-13 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.7%

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.

Wichita County32100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Wichita Falls, TX24

Other cities and towns in Wichita 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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