City · DeWitt County, Texas

Cuero, Texas

Cuero is a city in DeWitt County, Texas. It has 8,165 residents. Cuero, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 14 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,433 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #634 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), child care cost burden (low) and pharmacies (high). It ranks worst on hot days (high), mental health providers (low) and uninsured residents (under 65) (high).

14Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,433 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #634 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 8,165 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 1,243.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4818092

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.

Safety17#12,899/15,637
Economy14#13,482/15,631
Housing80#3,015/14,977
Health28#11,188/15,609
Healthcare14#13,483/15,650
Environment45#8,470/15,453
Education15#13,257/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,090/15,650
Community33#10,422/15,651
Leisure & amenities21#12,340/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Social associations · high15.1 /10k
91/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeWitt County value
Child care cost burden · low21.7%
90/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeWitt County value
Pharmacies · high2.5 /10k
89/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDeWitt County value
Public libraries · high1.5 /10k
86/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesDeWitt County value
Students per teacher · low11.8×
85/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsDeWitt County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low126 min
84/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesDeWitt County value

Weaknesses

Hot days · high133 days
2/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDeWitt County value
Mental health providers · low30 /100k
2/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDeWitt County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high22.3%
4/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Texas 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDeWitt County value
Drought exposure · high91%
6/100Texas 57%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAADeWitt County value
High school diploma or higher · low80.0%
6/100Texas 86.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
60.1% (2015-2019) → 81.2% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+67%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
49.8% (2015-2019) → 37.6% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateWorsening
18.0% (2015-2019) → 26.5% (2020-2024)
+8.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
29.9% (2015-2019) → 22.3% (2020-2024)
−7.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
7.9% (2015-2019) → 15.2% (2020-2024)
+7.3 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Cuero, Texas improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 10 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.

Improved3

Broadband+21 points60.1% → 81.2%
Rent / income−7.6 points29.9% → 22.3%
Bachelor's++7.3 points7.9% → 15.2%

Declined1

Price / income+1.3×1.9× → 3.1×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Cuero, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	16.2 min2015-2019	17.7 min2020-2024	+1.5 min	Within the margin of error	32%
Bachelor's degree or higher	7.9%2015-2019	15.2%2020-2024	+7.3 points	Improved	81%
Broadband subscriptions	60.1%2015-2019	81.2%2020-2024	+21 points	Improved	92%
Child poverty rate	18.0%2015-2019	26.5%2020-2024	+8.5 points	Within the margin of error	14%
Effective property tax rate	1.35%2015-2019	0.77%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	94%
High school diploma or higher	79.5%2015-2019	80.0%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.3×	Declined	14%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4712015-2019	0.5002020-2024	+0.029	Within the margin of error	28%
Median household income	$50,4082015-2019	$56,4802020-2024	+12%	Within the margin of error	19%
Poverty rate	17.5%2015-2019	21.7%2020-2024	+4.2 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.9%2015-2019	22.3%2020-2024	−7.6 points	Improved	89%
Rent-burdened households	49.8%2015-2019	37.6%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	86%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.8%2015-2019	22.3%2020-2024	+2.5 points	Within the margin of error	22%

“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 Cuero, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Cuero, 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, Cuero, Texas itself moved +6.8 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

8,165 residents (±21)

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

2,247 households (±209)

Cuero, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k25%†562
$25k–50k20%†447
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,247 households (±209)

Cuero, Texas
Texas share

Own62%1,400
Rent38%847

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,693 workers (±280)

Cuero, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone78%2,112
Carpool5.6%†152
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 DeWitt County, the county holding most of Cuero's residents.

DeWitt County has 446 employer establishments, 220 for every 10,000 residents (0.89× the US rate of 248; 1.01× Texas's), with 5,503 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,758. The Census Bureau also counts 1,706 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 446; 1,706 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 220; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 5,503
Average annual pay: $59,758; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	44	21.7	1.18×About typical	470	$19,951	14
Specialty trade contractors	22	10.9	0.70×Fewer than typical	177	$55,045	192
Limited-service restaurants	21	10.4	1.29×More than typical	271	$19,963	—
Religious organizations	19	9.4	1.69×More than typical	129	$20,481	—
Ambulatory health care services	16	7.9	0.38×Fewer than typical	79	$52,595	60
Full-service restaurants	15	7.4	0.96×About typical	141	$21,071	8
Automotive repair and maintenance	14	6.9	1.37×More than typical	37	$37,081	36
Banks and credit unions	14	6.9	2.14×More than typical	126	$70,984	—
Gasoline stations	13	6.4	1.98×More than typical	267	$31,566	—
Lessors of real estate	12	5.9	0.48×Fewer than typical	18	$39,278	164
Insurance agencies and brokerages	11	5.4	1.24×About typical	48	$52,458	30
Management, scientific and technical consulting	11	5.4	0.81×About typical	11	$83,818	54

Rank places for an industry Open DeWitt County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,271 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 $1,833 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Cuero, Texas: $0.22 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $1,833
Per resident: $0.22; 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

Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$1,833100%

Top recipients

SLM CONTRACT FURNITURE, INC.$1,833100%

Spending by fiscal year

-450.2FY2018
12.8FY2019
15KFY2020
15KFY2021
7.5KFY2022
9.8KFY2023
9.8KFY2024
-11.3KFY2025

Top industries (NAICS)

Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372$1,833100%

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

Cuero, Texas's figures are part of those of DeWitt County, TX ($100.6K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.8% of that total.

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

See federal money in DeWitt 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.

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

House

Michael CloudR-TX-27 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.5%

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.

DeWitt County22100% of residents

Other cities and towns in DeWitt 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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