City · Jackson County, Texas

Edna, Texas

Edna is a city in Jackson County, Texas. It has 6,027 residents. Edna, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,226 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #768 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on drug overdose deaths (low), homicide rate (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on preventable hospital stays (high), pharmacies (low) and traffic deaths (high).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,226 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #768 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 6,027 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 1,457.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4822720

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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.

Safety59#6,409/15,637
Economy12#13,780/15,631
Housing49#7,694/14,977
Health42#9,009/15,609
Healthcare2#15,313/15,650
Environment17#12,807/15,453
Education19#12,754/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,909/15,650
Community19#12,724/15,651
Leisure & amenities12#13,780/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJackson County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJackson County value
Property crime rate · low416 /100k
93/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJackson County value
Child care cost burden · low21.3%
91/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value
Home price to income ratio · low2.0×
91/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Time spent in the emergency room · low117 min
89/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJackson County value

Weaknesses

Preventable hospital stays · high6,233 /100k
0/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJackson County value
Traffic deaths · high47.5 /100k
2/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataJackson County value
Primary care physicians · low13 /100k
2/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high28.5%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Mental health providers · low33 /100k
3/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJackson County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
71.3% (2015-2019) → 84.6% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
15.7% (2015-2019) → 28.5% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
29.4% (2015-2019) → 23.6% (2020-2024)
−5.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateWorsening
19.3% (2015-2019) → 24.6% (2020-2024)
+5.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Median household incomeImproving
$51,107 (2015-2019) → $59,600 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Average commute timeImproving
27.9 min (2015-2019) → 23.4 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, Edna, Texas improved on 1 of 13 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.

Improved1

Broadband+13 points71.3% → 84.6%

Declined1

Uninsured+13 points15.7% → 28.5%

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Edna, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.9 min2015-2019	23.4 min2020-2024	−4.5 min	Within the margin of error	88%
Bachelor's degree or higher	13.9%2015-2019	15.4%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Broadband subscriptions	71.3%2015-2019	84.6%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	74%
Child poverty rate	29.4%2015-2019	23.6%2020-2024	−5.7 points	Within the margin of error	71%
Effective property tax rate	1.47%2015-2019	1.14%2020-2024	−0.3 points	Within the margin of error	78%
High school diploma or higher	81.8%2015-2019	81.8%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.0×2020-2024	+0.1×	Within the margin of error	74%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4382015-2019	0.4672020-2024	+0.030	Within the margin of error	27%
Median household income	$51,1072015-2019	$59,6002020-2024	+17%	Within the margin of error	26%
Poverty rate	19.3%2015-2019	24.6%2020-2024	+5.4 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Rent as share of income	25.7%2015-2019	26.8%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Rent-burdened households	41.7%2015-2019	39.1%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.7%2015-2019	28.5%2020-2024	+13 points	Declined	2%

“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 Edna, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Edna, 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, Edna, Texas itself moved +0.6 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

6,027 residents (±22)

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

2,362 households (±213)

Edna, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k27%†642
$25k–50k16%†372
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,362 households (±213)

Edna, Texas
Texas share

Own58%1,373
Rent42%989

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

2,529 workers (±310)

Edna, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone80%2,025
Carpool14%†359
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 Jackson County, the county holding most of Edna's residents.

Jackson County has 337 employer establishments, 222 for every 10,000 residents (0.89× the US rate of 248; 1.02× Texas's), with 5,775 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,087. The Census Bureau also counts 1,381 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 337; 1,381 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 222; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 5,775
Average annual pay: $59,087; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	23	15.1	0.98×About typical	792	$89,838	186
Religious organizations	15	9.9	1.78×More than typical	77	$15,312	—
Gasoline stations	14	9.2	2.84×More than typical	173	$23,815	—
Restaurants and other eating places	14	9.2	0.50×Fewer than typical	228	$16,746	18
Automotive repair and maintenance	13	8.6	1.70×More than typical	56	$49,232	30
Lessors of real estate	13	8.6	0.69×Fewer than typical	25	$24,440	75
Heavy and civil engineering construction	12	7.9	6.89×More than typical	477	$68,901	10
Other specialty trade contractors	10	6.6	2.62×More than typical	176	$71,256	69
Ambulatory health care services	9	5.9	0.28×Too few to compare	39	$54,103	46
Truck transportation	9	5.9	1.17×Too few to compare	13	$35,385	37
Building equipment contractors	8	5.3	0.87×Too few to compare	581	$98,575	29
Limited-service restaurants	8	5.3	0.66×Too few to compare	169	$16,213	3

Rank places for an industry Open Jackson County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 15,199 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 $534 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Edna, Texas: $0.09 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $534
Per resident: $0.09; 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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement$534100%

Top recipients

MOI, INC.$27652%
PRICE MODERN LLC$25748%

Spending by fiscal year

533.8FY2026

What was bought

Other equipment & supplies$534100%

Top industries (NAICS)

Office furniture (including fixtures) manufacturing · 3372$534100%

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

Edna, Texas's figures are part of those of Jackson County, TX ($46.3K in FY2026), never added to them: 1.2% of that total.

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

See federal money in Jackson 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.

Edna, 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.

Jackson County17100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Jackson 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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