Census-designated place · Maverick County, Texas

Elm Creek, Texas

Elm Creek is a census-designated place in Maverick County, Texas, part of the Eagle Pass, TX metro area. It has 3,680 residents. Elm Creek, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 8 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,333 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #789 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on injury deaths (low), drug overdose deaths (low) and natural hazard risk (low). It ranks worst on mammography screening (low), hot days (high) and uninsured residents (under 65) (high).

8Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,333 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #789 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 3,680 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 1,301.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4823254

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.

Safety53#7,372/15,637
Economy22#12,210/15,631
Housing31#10,305/14,977
Health36#9,988/15,609
Healthcare1#15,539/15,650
Environment71#4,409/15,453
Education5#14,851/15,649
Infrastructure5#14,858/15,650
Community0#15,576/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,541/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Injury deaths · low50 /100k
94/100Texas 69 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Drug overdose deaths · low7.4 /100k
92/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataMaverick County value
Natural hazard risk · low6.5
89/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyMaverick County value
Income inequality (Gini index) · low0.340
88/100Texas 0.478United States 0.4832020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19083
Job growth · high1.7%
86/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMaverick County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMaverick County value

Weaknesses

Mammography screening · low19.0%
0/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Hot days · high158 days
1/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMaverick County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high31.5%
1/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Social associations · low2.6 /10k
1/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Food environment index · low4.9
1/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Flu vaccinations · low22.0%
2/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
26.4% (2015-2019) → 100.0% (2020-2024)
+74 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.2× (2015-2019) → 3.3× (2020-2024)
+170%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
21.5% (2015-2019) → 47.8% (2018-2022)
+26 pts3 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
56.1% (2015-2019) → 66.5% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
28.8% (2015-2019) → 18.7% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
40.5% (2015-2019) → 31.5% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%

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, Elm Creek, Texas improved on 0 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 6 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Price / income+2.0×1.2× → 3.3×

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Elm Creek, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	62.2%2015-2019	64.9%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	18%
High school diploma or higher	56.1%2015-2019	66.5%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	96%
Home price to income ratio	1.2×2015-2019	3.3×2020-2024	+2.0×	Declined	4%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3762015-2019	0.3402020-2024	−0.036	Within the margin of error	78%
Median household income	$47,0482015-2019	$52,2632020-2024	+11%	Within the margin of error	18%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	40.5%2015-2019	31.5%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Within the margin of error	95%

“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 Elm Creek, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Elm Creek, 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.

No place that looked like Elm Creek, Texas five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Elm Creek, Texas itself moved −10.2 points in standing on average over the same 5 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

3,680 residents (±1,327)

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

1,063 households (±369)

Elm Creek, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k21%†225
$25k–50k24%†254
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,063 households (±369)

Elm Creek, Texas
Texas share

Own89%†950
Rent11%†113

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

1,554 workers (±719)

Elm Creek, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone78%†1,213
Carpool5.3%†82
Public transit

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 Eagle Pass, 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 Maverick County, the county holding most of Elm Creek's residents.

Maverick County has 883 employer establishments, 152 for every 10,000 residents (0.61× the US rate of 248; 0.70× Texas's), with 12,727 paid employees at an average annual pay of $32,594. The Census Bureau also counts 6,430 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 883; 6,430 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 152; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 12,727
Average annual pay: $32,594; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	87	15	2.96×More than typical	365	$60,430	637
Ambulatory health care services	77	13.3	0.64×Fewer than typical	1,472	$36,649	161
Restaurants and other eating places	62	10.7	0.58×Fewer than typical	1,332	$17,691	93
Limited-service restaurants	34	5.9	0.73×Fewer than typical	951	$16,395	25
Specialty trade contractors	31	5.3	0.34×Fewer than typical	105	$42,590	867
Automotive repair and maintenance	30	5.2	1.03×About typical	113	$32,327	159
Clothing and accessories stores	26	4.5	1.23×About typical	408	$18,032	65
Offices of physicians	26	4.5	0.69×Fewer than typical	148	$58,628	24
Lessors of real estate	25	4.3	0.35×Fewer than typical	56	$39,179	249
Insurance agencies and brokerages	22	3.8	0.86×About typical	79	$30,608	81
Legal services	21	3.6	0.67×Fewer than typical	155	$71,006	32
Building equipment contractors	19	3.3	0.54×Fewer than typical	64	$46,531	168

Rank places for an industry Open Maverick County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 58,077 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: Elm Creek is mostly in Maverick County.

See federal money in Maverick 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.

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

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.

Maverick County7100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Eagle Pass, TX6

Other cities and towns in Maverick 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
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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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved0

Declined1

Cities and towns like Elm Creek, Texas five years ago that improved

Who lives here

Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

Getting to work

How people get to work

Jobs and pay

Local businesses

Federal contracts performed here

Representation in Congress

Senate

County

Metro area

Other cities and towns in Maverick County

Similar cities and towns

Data and sources

Improved0

Declined1

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Senate