Census-designated place · Wood County, Texas

Holly Lake Ranch, Texas

Holly Lake Ranch is a census-designated place in Wood County, Texas. It has 2,956 residents. Holly Lake Ranch, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 25 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,706 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #406 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on social associations (high), property crime rate (low) and violent crime rate (low). It ranks worst on access to exercise opportunities (low), unemployment rate (high) and grocery stores (low).

25Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,706 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #406 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 2,956 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 340.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4834586

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.

Safety50#7,739/15,637
Economy43#8,895/15,631
Housing29#10,655/14,977
Health40#9,372/15,609
Healthcare24#11,922/15,650
Environment24#11,678/15,453
Education53#7,346/15,649
Infrastructure50#7,863/15,650
Community30#10,939/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,577/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Holly Lake Ranch, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Wood 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

Social associations · high15.2 /10k
92/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Property crime rate · low505 /100k
89/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWood County value
Violent crime rate · low95 /100k
87/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationWood County value
Child care cost burden · low22.6%
86/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Natural hazard risk · low8.5
86/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyWood County value
Students per teacher · low12.0×
84/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsWood County value

Weaknesses

Access to exercise opportunities · low37.0%
4/100Texas 82.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Unemployment rate · high11.4%
6/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Grocery stores · low0.8 /10k
8/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsWood County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.4 /10k
8/100Texas 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyWood County value
Mental health providers · low66 /100k
9/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value
Flu vaccinations · low31.0%
10/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteWood County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,529 (2015-2019) → 2,956 (2020-2024)
+17%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent as share of incomeImproving
51.0% (2015-2019) → 13.6% (2019-2023)
−37 pts4 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.2%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
73.2% (2015-2019) → 48.8% (2020-2024)
−24 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
18.7% (2015-2019) → 6.7% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateWorsening
1.3% (2015-2019) → 11.4% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
34.2% (2015-2019) → 43.8% (2020-2024)
+9.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

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, Holly Lake Ranch, Texas improved on 1 of 8 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 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+7.6 points88.3% → 95.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 8 measures

Change of every measure of Holly Lake Ranch, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	39.7 min2015-2019	42.6 min2020-2024	+2.9 min	Within the margin of error	20%
Bachelor's degree or higher	34.2%2015-2019	43.8%2020-2024	+9.6 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Broadband subscriptions	88.3%2015-2019	95.9%2020-2024	+7.6 points	Improved	47%
High school diploma or higher	94.5%2015-2019	98.1%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	73%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	3.7×2020-2024	+0.8×	Within the margin of error	29%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4042015-2019	0.5282020-2024	+0.124	Within the margin of error	3%
Median household income	$53,0852015-2019	$70,1792020-2024	+32%	Within the margin of error	60%
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 Holly Lake Ranch, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Holly Lake Ranch, 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, Holly Lake Ranch, Texas itself moved −4.7 points in standing on average over the same 7 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

2,956 residents (±637)

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

1,378 households (±244)

Holly Lake Ranch, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k13%†177
$25k–50k25%†351
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,378 households (±244)

Holly Lake Ranch, Texas
Texas share

Own95%1,307
Rent5.2%†71

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

739 workers (±271)

Holly Lake Ranch, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone63%†462
Carpool4.5%†33
Public transit

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 Wood County, the county holding most of Holly Lake Ranch's residents.

Wood County has 904 employer establishments, 188 for every 10,000 residents (0.76× the US rate of 248; 0.86× Texas's), with 8,596 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,779. The Census Bureau also counts 4,359 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 904; 4,359 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 188; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 8,596
Average annual pay: $44,779; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	82	17	1.10×About typical	504	$58,673	479
Restaurants and other eating places	72	15	0.81×About typical	1,010	$18,842	39
Religious organizations	60	12.5	2.25×More than typical	262	$20,824	—
Ambulatory health care services	47	9.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	334	$81,033	101
Full-service restaurants	39	8.1	1.06×About typical	476	$20,401	17
Lessors of real estate	36	7.5	0.61×Fewer than typical	54	$32,037	300
Construction of buildings	29	6	0.80×Fewer than typical	125	$70,800	255
Building equipment contractors	28	5.8	0.97×About typical	219	$65,717	88
Limited-service restaurants	23	4.8	0.60×Fewer than typical	495	$17,358	11
Automotive repair and maintenance	22	4.6	0.91×About typical	115	$42,617	86
Gasoline stations	22	4.6	1.41×More than typical	161	$23,391	—
Banks and credit unions	21	4.4	1.35×More than typical	207	$57,391	4

Rank places for an industry Open Wood County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 48,106 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: Holly Lake Ranch is mostly in Wood County.

See federal money in Wood 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.

Holly Lake Ranch, Texas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Lance GoodenR-TX-5 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 0.9%

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.

Wood County25100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Wood 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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