Census-designated place · Harris County, Texas

Channelview, Texas

Channelview is a census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, part of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area. It has 43,605 residents. Channelview, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,262 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #772 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on average weekly wage (high), new business applications (high) and distance to an emergency room (low). It ranks worst on uninsured residents (under 65) (high), high school diploma or higher (low) and public libraries (low).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,262 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #772 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 43,605 (2020-2024)
Land area: 14 mi²
Density: 3,026.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4814236

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.

Safety9#14,264/15,637
Economy31#10,820/15,631
Housing39#9,126/14,977
Health46#8,375/15,609
Healthcare37#9,885/15,650
Environment1#15,300/15,453
Education9#14,232/15,649
Infrastructure27#11,473/15,650
Community8#14,316/15,651
Leisure & amenities30#10,881/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Channelview, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Harris 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 weekly wage · high$1,759
95/100Texas $1,499United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHarris County value
New business applications · high19.8 /1k
89/100Texas 17.2 /1kUnited States 16.6 /1k2025U.S. Census BureauHarris County value
Distance to an emergency room · low3.8 mi
83/100Texas 5.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHarris County value
Comfortable days · high31.0%
83/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHarris County value
Depression · low19.7%
83/100Texas 21.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Distance to an airport · low13 mi
80/100Texas 33 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauHarris County value

Weaknesses

Uninsured residents (under 65) · high29.1%
1/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
High school diploma or higher · low71.3%
2/100Texas 86.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
2/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesHarris County value
Property crime rate · high2,910 /100k
2/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationHarris County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high10.1 µg/m³
3/100Texas 8.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHarris County value
Violent crime rate · high630 /100k
4/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationHarris County value

Trends

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

Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.0× (2015-2019) → 3.0× (2020-2024)
+55%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
84.2% (2015-2019) → 90.6% (2020-2024)
+6.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
9.1% (2015-2019) → 15.2% (2020-2024)
+6.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Child poverty rateWorsening
24.1% (2015-2019) → 29.3% (2020-2024)
+5.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
16.8% (2015-2019) → 20.3% (2020-2024)
+3.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
51.2% (2015-2019) → 48.1% (2020-2024)
−3.1 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Channelview, 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

Bachelor's++6.1 points9.1% → 15.2%
Broadband+6.4 points84.2% → 90.6%

Declined1

Price / income+1.1×2.0× → 3.0×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Channelview, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.5 min2015-2019	30.0 min2020-2024	+1.5 min	Within the margin of error	31%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.1%2015-2019	15.2%2020-2024	+6.1 points	Improved	75%
Broadband subscriptions	84.2%2015-2019	90.6%2020-2024	+6.4 points	Improved	40%
Child poverty rate	24.1%2015-2019	29.3%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Effective property tax rate	1.32%2015-2019	1.65%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	1%
High school diploma or higher	70.9%2015-2019	71.3%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	19%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4042015-2019	0.4282020-2024	+0.024	Within the margin of error	31%
Median household income	$63,5812015-2019	$64,4222020-2024	+1.3%	Within the margin of error	8%
Poverty rate	16.8%2015-2019	20.3%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Rent as share of income	30.7%2015-2019	29.4%2020-2024	−1.3 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Rent-burdened households	51.2%2015-2019	48.1%2020-2024	−3.1 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Unemployment rate	7.7%2015-2019	6.9%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	66%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	30.0%2015-2019	29.1%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	57%

“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 Channelview, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Channelview, 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, Channelview, Texas itself moved −7 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

43,605 residents (±4,250)

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

12,626 households (±782)

Channelview, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k14%1,744
$25k–50k25%3,142
$50k–75k20%2,493

Homes

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

Owners and renters

12,626 households (±782)

Channelview, Texas
Texas share

Own72%9,113
Rent28%3,513

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

18,090 workers (±1,689)

Channelview, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone81%14,681
Carpool9.5%1,717
Public transit0.4%†69

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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, 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 Harris County, the county holding most of Channelview's residents.

Harris County has 111,215 employer establishments, 227 for every 10,000 residents (0.91× the US rate of 248; 1.04× Texas's), with 2,182,164 paid employees at an average annual pay of $80,572. The Census Bureau also counts 605,074 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 111,215; 605,074 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 227; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 2,182,164
Average annual pay: $80,572; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	10,905	22.3	1.07×About typical	129,335	$64,823	25,136
Restaurants and other eating places	8,852	18.1	0.98×About typical	195,911	$23,182	4,368
Lessors of real estate	5,455	11.1	0.90×About typical	31,717	$83,945	41,015
Specialty trade contractors	4,728	9.7	0.62×Fewer than typical	93,890	$72,159	48,336
Offices of physicians	4,110	8.4	1.30×More than typical	41,464	$112,403	4,277
Limited-service restaurants	3,958	8.1	1.01×About typical	87,661	$19,853	1,311
Management, scientific and technical consulting	3,649	7.5	1.11×About typical	30,505	$125,328	18,617
Full-service restaurants	3,574	7.3	0.95×About typical	92,715	$26,713	2,033
Legal services	3,363	6.9	1.28×More than typical	26,255	$142,429	5,608
Construction of buildings	2,395	4.9	0.65×Fewer than typical	27,129	$95,725	22,613
Architectural, engineering and related services	2,369	4.8	1.39×More than typical	65,882	$123,074	4,792
Offices of dentists	2,302	4.7	1.17×About typical	14,168	$53,907	1,426

Rank places for an industry Open Harris County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 4,896,507 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 $8.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Channelview, Texas: $205 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $8.9M; −41% vs FY2025
Per resident: $205; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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

Agricultural Marketing Service$6.8M76%
Defense Logistics Agency$1.6M18%
Department of the Army$329.3K3.7%
Environmental Protection Agency$183.8K2.1%
Department of Veterans Affairs$93.260.0%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

3.3MFY2017
7.1MFY2018
5.7MFY2019
5.1MFY2020
10.2MFY2021
39.3MFY2022
27.5MFY2023
37.3M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other food manufacturing · 3119$6.5M73%
Petroleum and coal products manufacturing · 3241$1.6M18%
Grain and oilseed milling · 3112$298K3.3%
Ship and boat building · 3366$231.8K2.6%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$183.8K2.1%
Other general purpose machinery manufacturing · 3339$67.5K

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Channelview, Texas

CRANE BARGE$12.4M
SOUTHWEST SHIPYARD LP· Harris County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 21, 2022 – Jun 4, 2026· W912BU22C0043
FOUR (4) REVETMENT BARGES$12.3M
SOUTHWEST SHIPYARD LP· Harris County, TX· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 27, 2024 – May 19, 2026· W912BU24C0040
COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000011352/4210007603/PEAS, YELLOW, SPLIT BAG-50 KG$3M
DAKOTA DRY BEAN, LLC· Harris County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Jun 4, 2026 – Jun 4, 2026· 121NTP26C0124
COMMODITIES FOR USG FOOD DONATIONS: 2000010334/4210007131/RICE, 5/20 LG, W-MLD BAG-50 KG

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

Channelview, Texas's figures are part of those of Harris County, TX ($4.6B in FY2026), never added to them: 0.2% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Channelview is mostly in Harris County.

See federal money in Harris 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.

Channelview, Texas is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).