Census-designated place · Tom Green County, Texas

Grape Creek, Texas

Grape Creek is a census-designated place in Tom Green County, Texas, part of the San Angelo, TX metro area. It has 4,036 residents. Grape Creek, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 17 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,025 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #572 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), drug overdose deaths (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on uninsured residents (under 65) (high), grocery stores (low) and distance to an Amtrak station (high).

17Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,025 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #572 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 4,036 (2020-2024)
Land area: 16 mi²
Density: 257.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4830629

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.

Safety27#11,348/15,637
Economy26#11,503/15,631
Housing41#8,847/14,977
Health23#11,993/15,609
Healthcare30#10,883/15,650
Environment84#2,498/15,453
Education12#13,743/15,649
Infrastructure4#15,004/15,650
Community18#12,886/15,651
Leisure & amenities35#10,096/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Child care cost burden · low19.7%
95/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTom Green County value
Drug overdose deaths · low8.3 /100k
87/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataTom Green County value
Comfortable days · high31.2%
84/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationTom Green County value
Unemployment rate · low2.0%
83/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Home price to income ratio · low2.2×
83/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Texas 7 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTom Green County value

Weaknesses

Uninsured residents (under 65) · high26.9%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
2/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTom Green County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high146 mi
5/100Texas 43 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauTom Green County value
Hot days · high116 days
6/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationTom Green County value
Voter turnout · low52.2%
7/100Texas 57.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionTom Green County value
High school diploma or higher · low78.1%
7/100Texas 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.

PopulationRising
2,897 (2015-2019) → 4,036 (2020-2024)
+39%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
35.3% (2015-2019) → 63.1% (2020-2024)
+28 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
24.2% (2015-2019) → 41.3% (2020-2024)
+17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.9% (2015-2019) → 86.3% (2020-2024)
+16 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
9.5% (2015-2019) → 16.3% (2020-2024)
+6.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Unemployment rateImproving
8.7% (2015-2019) → 2.0% (2020-2024)
−6.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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, Grape Creek, Texas improved on 1 of 12 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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+16 points69.9% → 86.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 12 measures

Change of every measure of Grape Creek, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.2 min2015-2019	28.9 min2020-2024	+1.7 min	Within the margin of error	29%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.5%2015-2019	16.3%2020-2024	+6.8 points	Within the margin of error	78%
Broadband subscriptions	69.9%2015-2019	86.3%2020-2024	+16 points	Improved	83%
Child poverty rate	32.6%2015-2019	35.4%2020-2024	+2.8 points	Within the margin of error	27%
Effective property tax rate	1.27%2015-2019	1.03%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	66%
High school diploma or higher	81.4%2015-2019	78.1%2020-2024	−3.3 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Home price to income ratio	2.1×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.2×	Within the margin of error	69%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4642015-2019	0.4472020-2024	−0.017	Within the margin of error	65%
Median household income	$43,0772015-2019	$53,2992020-2024	+24%	Within the margin of error	41%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	24.2%2015-2019	41.3%2020-2024	+17 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	24.6%2015-2019	26.9%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	23%

“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 Grape Creek, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Grape 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.

For comparison, Grape Creek, Texas itself moved −6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

4,036 residents (±792)

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

1,433 households (±180)

Grape Creek, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k23%†329
$25k–50k23%†329
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,433 households (±180)

Grape Creek, Texas
Texas share

Own75%1,081
Rent25%†352

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

1,576 workers (±302)

Grape Creek, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone85%1,333
Carpool11%†174
Public transit0.0%0

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 San Angelo, 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 Tom Green County, the county holding most of Grape Creek's residents.

Tom Green County has 2,963 employer establishments, 248 for every 10,000 residents (1.00× the US rate of 248; 1.14× Texas's), with 41,984 paid employees at an average annual pay of $50,622. The Census Bureau also counts 9,757 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,963; 9,757 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 248; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 41,984
Average annual pay: $50,622; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	224	18.8	1.02×About typical	4,741	$20,031	46
Specialty trade contractors	208	17.4	1.13×About typical	1,340	$57,866	1,100
Ambulatory health care services	161	13.5	0.65×Fewer than typical	2,267	$104,531	320
Lessors of real estate	132	11.1	0.90×About typical	392	$37,574	904
Limited-service restaurants	104	8.7	1.09×About typical	2,502	$19,025	15
Religious organizations	92	7.7	1.39×More than typical	922	$20,748	—
Building equipment contractors	90	7.5	1.25×More than typical	823	$62,593	151
Full-service restaurants	89	7.5	0.97×About typical	1,895	$21,809	21
Services to buildings and dwellings	83	7	1.03×About typical	377	$30,393	684
Automotive repair and maintenance	80	6.7	1.33×More than typical	541	$46,370	146
Construction of buildings	75	6.3	0.83×About typical	283	$46,806	405
Insurance agencies and brokerages	69	5.8	1.32×More than typical	267	$53,936	192

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 119,327 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 $17.7K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Grape Creek, Texas: $4.39 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $17.7K; −63% vs FY2025
Per resident: $4.39; US $1,994
Sole-source: 95%; 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

Federal Aviation Administration$12.1K68%
Consumer Product Safety Commission$4,77227%
Public Buildings Service$8394.7%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

1.8KFY2017
10.9KFY2018
37.7KFY2019
3.3KFY2020
9.1KFY2021
7.5KFY2022
27.6KFY2023
53.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$12.1K68%
Data processing, hosting, and related services · 5182$4,77227%
Facilities support services · 5612$8394.7%

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 Grape Creek, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Grape Creek, Texas's figures are part of those of Tom Green County, TX ($38.2M 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: Grape Creek is mostly in Tom Green County.

See federal money in Tom Green 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.

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

House

August PflugerR-TX-11 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 1.3%

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.

Tom Green County49100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

San Angelo, TX49

Other cities and towns in Tom Green 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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