City · Smith County, Texas

Hideaway, Texas

Hideaway is a city in Smith County, Texas, part of the Tyler, TX metro area. It has 3,301 residents. Hideaway, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 46 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,509 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #164 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on natural hazard risk (low), child care cost burden (low) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on distance to an airport (high), high school diploma or higher (low) and traffic deaths (high).

46Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,509 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #164 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 3,301 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 1,598.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4833578

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety28#11,229/15,637
Economy96#597/15,631
Housing46#8,145/14,977
Health70#4,705/15,609
Healthcare47#8,282/15,650
Environment55#6,933/15,453
Education46#8,524/15,649
Infrastructure44#8,833/15,650
Community20#12,544/15,651
Leisure & amenities19#12,688/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Natural hazard risk · low0.7
100/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencySmith County value
Child care cost burden · low18.6%
97/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSmith County value
Unemployment rate · low0.8%
93/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Poverty rate · low2.7%
93/100Texas 13.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Drug overdose deaths · low7.3 /100k
92/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataSmith County value
Poor or fair health · low12.4%
90/100Texas 23.2%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Distance to an airport · high97 mi
11/100Texas 33 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauSmith County value
High school diploma or higher · low97.7%
12/100Texas 86.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Traffic deaths · high24.7 /100k
13/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataSmith County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.0 µg/m³
13/100Texas 8.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencySmith County value
Preventable hospital stays · high3,752 /100k
13/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSmith County value
Public libraries · low0.2 /10k
14/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesSmith County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,127 (2015-2019) → 3,301 (2020-2024)
+5.6%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
47.4% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−47 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Average commute timeWorsening
20.4 min (2015-2019) → 39.3 min (2020-2024)
+93%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
18.0% (2015-2019) → 5.6% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Median household incomeImproving
$72,689 (2015-2019) → $109,712 (2020-2024)
+51%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Income inequality (Gini index)Improving
0.452 (2015-2019) → 0.345 (2020-2024)
−24%5 yearsCensus table B19083US 0.482 → 0.483

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, Hideaway, Texas improved on 2 of 9 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.

Improved2

Inequality−0.1070.452 → 0.345
Household income+51%$72,689 → $109,712

Declined1

Commute+18.9 min20.4 min → 39.3 min

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Hideaway, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.4 min2015-2019	39.3 min2020-2024	+18.9 min	Declined	0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	36.8%2015-2019	38.3%2020-2024	+1.5 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Broadband subscriptions	94.9%2015-2019	99.4%2020-2024	+4.4 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	1.22%2015-2019	1.02%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	58%
High school diploma or higher	95.9%2015-2019	97.7%2020-2024	+1.8 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Home price to income ratio	2.5×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	46%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4522015-2019	0.3452020-2024	−0.107	Improved	96%
Median household income	$72,6892015-2019	$109,7122020-2024	+51%	Improved	85%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“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 Hideaway, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hideaway, 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, Hideaway, Texas itself moved +0.5 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

3,301 residents (±13)

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

1,407 households (±164)

Hideaway, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k7.5%†105
$25k–50k6.3%†89
$50k–75k18%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,407 households (±164)

Hideaway, Texas
Texas share

Own94%1,326
Rent5.8%†81

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

1,296 workers (±193)

Hideaway, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone65%845
Carpool5.8%†75
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 Tyler, 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 Smith County, the county holding most of Hideaway's residents.

Smith County has 6,356 employer establishments, 258 for every 10,000 residents (1.04× the US rate of 248; 1.18× Texas's), with 98,886 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,912. The Census Bureau also counts 24,701 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 6,356; 24,701 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 258; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 98,886
Average annual pay: $52,912; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	529	21.5	1.03×About typical	10,160	$63,296	1,213
Restaurants and other eating places	468	19	1.04×About typical	10,641	$20,828	102
Specialty trade contractors	413	16.8	1.08×About typical	3,927	$58,405	2,183
Lessors of real estate	326	13.3	1.08×About typical	1,024	$55,146	2,106
Limited-service restaurants	231	9.4	1.17×About typical	5,128	$19,355	33
Religious organizations	226	9.2	1.66×More than typical	2,679	$33,448	—
Legal services	212	8.6	1.60×More than typical	934	$93,518	188
Services to buildings and dwellings	182	7.4	1.10×About typical	1,457	$32,021	1,663
Construction of buildings	178	7.2	0.96×About typical	670	$59,660	1,067
Building equipment contractors	162	6.6	1.09×About typical	1,937	$57,704	372
Offices of physicians	156	6.3	0.98×About typical	3,145	$98,106	282
Full-service restaurants	151	6.1	0.80×Fewer than typical	4,689	$22,763	45

Rank places for an industry Open Smith County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 245,945 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hideaway, Texas: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

93.7FY2017
850.1FY2019
292.2FY2020
278.1FY2021
324.4FY2022
154.1FY2023
155.5FY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Hideaway, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Hideaway, Texas's figures are part of those of Smith County, TX ($7.4M 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: Hideaway is mostly in Smith County.

See federal money in Smith 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.

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

House

Nathaniel MoranR-TX-1 · 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.

Smith County47100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Tyler, TX39

Other cities and towns in Smith 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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