Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety80#3,065/15,637
Economy97#487/15,631
Housing63#5,599/14,977
Health96#694/15,609
Healthcare73#4,167/15,650
Environment10#13,936/15,453
Education93#1,123/15,649
Infrastructure91#1,457/15,650
Community40#9,439/15,651
Leisure & amenities20#12,458/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Flower Mound, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Denton 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 · low45 /100k
98/100Texas 69 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDenton County value
Child care cost burden · low18.4%
97/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDenton County value
Median household income · high$161,235
97/100Texas $79,723United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013
Bachelor's degree or higher · high65.6%
95/100Texas 33.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Adult smoking · low7.7%
95/100Texas 15.3%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Broadband subscriptions · high97.3%
95/100Texas 91.3%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002

Weaknesses

Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
3/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesDenton County value
High ozone days · high19 days
3/100Texas 7 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDenton County value
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
3/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsDenton County value
Days with unhealthy air · high5.2%
8/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDenton County value
Social associations · low5.6 /10k
10/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteDenton County value
Hot days · high100 days
10/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationDenton County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.7% (2015-2019) → 45.7% (2020-2024)
+8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedImproving
5.9 /1k (2021) → 8.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+44%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.6× (2015-2019) → 3.5× (2020-2024)
+32%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.4% (2015-2019) → 28.0% (2020-2024)
+3.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
62.0% (2015-2019) → 65.5% (2020-2024)
+3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Median household incomeImproving
$137,285 (2015-2019) → $161,235 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Flower Mound, Texas improved on 4 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 5. 5 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.

Improved4

Property tax−0.4 points1.85% → 1.44%
Commute−2.4 min28.4 min → 26.0 min
Bachelor's++3.5 points62.0% → 65.5%
Household income+17%$137,285 → $161,235

Declined5

Inequality+0.0480.375 → 0.423
Rent burden+8.9 points36.7% → 45.7%
Price / income+0.8×2.6× → 3.5×
Child poverty+3.3 points3.4% → 6.7%
Rent / income+3.6 points24.4% → 28.0%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Flower Mound, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.4 min2015-2019	26.0 min2020-2024	−2.4 min	Improved	75%
Bachelor's degree or higher	62.0%2015-2019	65.5%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Improved	56%
Broadband subscriptions	96.9%2015-2019	97.3%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Child poverty rate	3.4%2015-2019	6.7%2020-2024	+3.3 points	Declined	25%
Effective property tax rate	1.85%2015-2019	1.44%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Improved	85%
High school diploma or higher	96.9%2015-2019	97.3%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	39%
Home price to income ratio	2.6×2015-2019	3.5×2020-2024	+0.8×	Declined	29%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3752015-2019	0.4232020-2024	+0.048	Declined	17%
Median household income	$137,2852015-2019	$161,2352020-2024	+17%	Improved	28%
Poverty rate	2.9%2015-2019	4.3%2020-2024	+1.4 points	Within the margin of error	31%
Rent as share of income	24.4%2015-2019	28.0%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Declined	29%
Rent-burdened households	36.7%2015-2019	45.7%2020-2024	+8.9 points	Declined	26%
Unemployment rate	3.8%2015-2019	3.4%2020-2024	−0.5 points	Within the margin of error	59%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	5.7%2015-2019	4.9%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Within the margin of error	56%

“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 Flower Mound, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Flower Mound, 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, Flower Mound, Texas itself moved −7.8 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

78,389 residents (±243)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79
60–69
50–59
40–49
30–39
20–29
10–19
Under 10

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 60–69 women (+1.8 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

78,389 residents (±243)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

White64%50,235
Black3.3%2,610
Hispanic or Latino13%10,062

Education

53,875 residents (±1,044)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

No high school diploma2.7%1,453
High school or GED11%5,713
Some college15%8,127

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

28,128 households (±722)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k4.0%1,122
$25k–50k5.9%1,671
$50k–75k10%2,942
$75k–100k9.0%2,526
$100k–150k17%4,914
$150k–200k15%4,213
$200k or more38%10,740

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $200k or more (+11.9 points).

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

28,128 households (±722)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Own82%23,202
Rent18%4,926

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (+3.3 points).

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

4,911 households (±407)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Under $7500.6%†29
$750–1,0003.5%†174
$1,000–1,5007.0%†346

Home values

23,202 homes (±713)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Under $150k2.8%†653
$150k–250k2.7%†615
$250k–400k18%4,104

Age of homes

28,789 homes (±715)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

2010 or later21%5,905
2000–200919%5,445
1980–199956%15,978

Size of homes

28,789 homes (±715)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Studio2.1%†599
1 bedroom5.0%1,434
2 bedrooms6.7%1,931

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

41,292 workers (±993)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone64%26,515
Carpool4.5%1,878
Public transit0.1%†58
Walk0.6%†258
Bike0.0%0
Work from home29%11,953
Other1.5%630

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+17.4 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

29,339 workers (±1,065)

Flower Mound, Texas
Texas share

Under 15 min22%6,599
15–29 min34%9,956
30–44 min30%8,918

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 Denton County, the county holding most of Flower Mound's residents.

Denton County has 20,025 employer establishments, 197 for every 10,000 residents (0.80× the US rate of 248; 0.90× Texas's), with 280,349 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,177. The Census Bureau also counts 115,434 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 20,025; 115,434 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 197; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 280,349
Average annual pay: $59,177; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	2,049	20.2	0.97×About typical	21,619	$73,812	4,596
Restaurants and other eating places	1,840	18.1	0.99×About typical	33,956	$22,173	638
Lessors of real estate	1,134	11.2	0.91×About typical	4,701	$66,901	10,439
Computer systems design and related services	1,063	10.5	2.42×More than typical	5,242	$99,821	2,221
Specialty trade contractors	1,016	10	0.65×Fewer than typical	10,613	$67,885	5,898
Management, scientific and technical consulting	985	9.7	1.45×More than typical	3,739	$82,654	5,736
Limited-service restaurants	842	8.3	1.04×About typical	17,337	$19,936	226
Offices of physicians	683	6.7	1.04×About typical	4,646	$86,282	847
Full-service restaurants	672	6.6	0.86×About typical	13,546	$25,582	307
Services to buildings and dwellings	555	5.5	0.81×About typical	5,137	$44,182	4,905
Offices of other health practitioners	552	5.4	0.90×About typical	3,328	$45,194	2,213
Real estate agents and brokers	500	4.9	1.01×About typical	820	$62,270	3,808

Rank places for an industry Open Denton County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,013,965 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 $4M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Flower Mound, Texas: $51.23 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $4M; −53% vs FY2025
Per resident: $51.23; US $1,994
Sole-source: 9.8%; US 30%
Single offer: 29%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$3.4M84%
Department of the Army$267K6.7%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$139.2K3.5%
National Institutes of Health$66.4K1.7%
Department of the Air Force$49.3K1.2%
Department of Veterans Affairs$43.2K1.1%
Transportation Security Administration$34.2K0.9%
Public Buildings Service$21.2K0.5%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

2.9MFY2017
2.3MFY2018
2.5MFY2019
3.4MFY2020
2.9MFY2021
2.4MFY2022
331.3KFY2023
1.6M

Top industries (NAICS)

Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$2.4M59%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$879.2K22%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$106.4K2.6%
Justice, public order, and safety activities · 9221$101.7K2.5%
Machine shops and screw, nut, and bolt manufacturing · 3327$78.2K1.9%
Waste collection · 5621

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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 Flower Mound, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Flower Mound, Texas's figures are part of those of Denton County, TX and Tarrant County, TX ($13.9B 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: Flower Mound is mostly in Denton County.

See federal money in Denton 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.

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