City · Houston County, Texas

Grapeland, Texas

Grapeland is a city in Houston County, Texas. It has 1,595 residents. Grapeland, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 8 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,400 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #797 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), natural hazard risk (low) and students per teacher (low). It ranks worst on broadband subscriptions (low), primary care physicians (low) and traffic deaths (high).

8Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,400 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #797 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,595 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 618.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4830632

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.

Safety34#10,353/15,637
Economy15#13,326/15,631
Housing56#6,629/14,977
Health4#14,930/15,609
Healthcare1#15,466/15,650
Environment46#8,374/15,453
Education8#14,453/15,649
Infrastructure0#15,632/15,650
Community13#13,632/15,651
Leisure & amenities60#6,267/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low118 min
88/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesHouston County value
Natural hazard risk · low8.0
87/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyHouston County value
Students per teacher · low12.0×
84/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsHouston County value
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
83/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesHouston County value
Comfortable days · high30.2%
79/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationHouston County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Texas 7 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyHouston County value

Weaknesses

Broadband subscriptions · low61.3%
0/100Texas 91.3%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Primary care physicians · low14 /100k
2/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteHouston County value
Traffic deaths · high39.9 /100k
3/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataHouston County value
Pharmacies · low0.4 /10k
3/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsHouston County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Texas 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyHouston County value
Mental health care shortage · high19.0
4/100Texas 14.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationHouston County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsImproving
75.5% (2015-2019) → 32.6% (2020-2024)
−43 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
33.3% (2015-2019) → 9.6% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
44.1% (2015-2019) → 27.1% (2020-2024)
−17 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateImproving
26.0% (2015-2019) → 13.1% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
26.5% (2015-2019) → 14.8% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
50.3% (2015-2019) → 61.3% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%

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, Grapeland, Texas improved on 3 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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

Rent burden−43 points75.5% → 32.6%
Rent / income−17 points44.1% → 27.1%
Broadband+11 points50.3% → 61.3%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Grapeland, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	18.1 min2015-2019	25.9 min2020-2024	+7.8 min	Within the margin of error	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.5%2015-2019	10.3%2020-2024	−2.2 points	Within the margin of error	16%
Broadband subscriptions	50.3%2015-2019	61.3%2020-2024	+11 points	Improved	65%
Effective property tax rate	1.24%2015-2019	1.06%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	53%
High school diploma or higher	83.9%2015-2019	91.7%2020-2024	+7.7 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Home price to income ratio	2.3×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	36%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4982015-2019	0.5072020-2024	+0.009	Within the margin of error	43%
Median household income	$28,5232015-2019	$39,6432020-2024	+39%	Within the margin of error	72%
Poverty rate	26.0%2015-2019	13.1%2020-2024	−13 points	Within the margin of error	96%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	44.1%2015-2019	27.1%2020-2024	−17 points	Improved	98%
Rent-burdened households	75.5%2015-2019	32.6%2020-2024	−43 points	Improved	99%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	26.5%2015-2019	14.8%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	97%

“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 Grapeland, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Grapeland, 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, Grapeland, Texas itself moved +10.8 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

1,595 residents (±372)

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

664 households (±140)

Grapeland, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k29%†192
$25k–50k26%†170
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

664 households (±140)

Grapeland, Texas
Texas share

Own52%347
Rent48%†317

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

681 workers (±196)

Grapeland, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone85%†582
Carpool9.1%†62
Public transit0.0%

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 Houston County, the county holding most of Grapeland's residents.

Houston County has 360 employer establishments, 163 for every 10,000 residents (0.66× the US rate of 248; 0.75× Texas's), with 4,018 paid employees at an average annual pay of $51,136. The Census Bureau also counts 1,641 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 360; 1,641 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 163; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 4,018
Average annual pay: $51,136; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	30	13.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	391	$14,780	10
Religious organizations	24	10.9	1.96×More than typical	65	$19,338	—
Ambulatory health care services	21	9.5	0.46×Fewer than typical	188	$49,223	70
Specialty trade contractors	21	9.5	0.62×Fewer than typical	97	$51,505	143
Limited-service restaurants	14	6.3	0.79×Fewer than typical	276	$13,703	—
Full-service restaurants	11	5	0.65×Fewer than typical	84	$16,250	6
Insurance agencies and brokerages	11	5	1.14×About typical	33	$39,152	25
Banks and credit unions	9	4.1	1.26×Too few to compare	68	$63,015	—
Building equipment contractors	9	4.1	0.68×Too few to compare	48	$43,042	30
Gasoline stations	9	4.1	1.26×Too few to compare	45	$21,822	—
General merchandise stores	9	4.1	2.31×Too few to compare	222	$31,212	11
Legal services	9	4.1	0.76×Too few to compare	17	$59,059	7

Rank places for an industry Open Houston County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 22,050 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: Grapeland is mostly in Houston County.

See federal money in Houston 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.

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

House

Pete SessionsR-TX-17 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.3%

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.

Houston County10100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Houston 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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