City · Tyler County, Texas

Ivanhoe, Texas

Ivanhoe is a city in Tyler County, Texas. It has 1,680 residents. Ivanhoe, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 1 out of 100 (very low), ranking #15,494 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #1,005 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), home price to income ratio (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on suicide rate (high), dentists (low) and pharmacies (low).

1Very low

Quality-of-life score: #15,494 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #1,005 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,680 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 527.9 /mi²
FIPS code: 4837112

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.

Safety33#10,476/15,637
Economy6#14,624/15,631
Housing36#9,533/14,977
Health4#15,061/15,609
Healthcare1#15,512/15,650
Environment21#12,133/15,453
Education12#13,830/15,649
Infrastructure2#15,337/15,650
Community13#13,644/15,651
Leisure & amenities0#15,634/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Students per teacher · low11.4×
91/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsTyler County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.9×
91/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Property crime rate · low552 /100k
87/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationTyler County value
Social associations · high12.3 /10k
78/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTyler County value
High ozone days · low0 days
76/100Texas 7 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTyler County value
Child care cost burden · low25.0%
74/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTyler County value

Weaknesses

Suicide rate · high49.1 /100k
1/100Texas 14.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataTyler County value
Dentists · low10 /100k
1/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteTyler County value
Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTyler County value
Grocery stores · low0.5 /10k
1/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTyler County value
Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.5 /10k
1/100Texas 3.4 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsTyler County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high34.7%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

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

Child poverty rateWorsening
24.8% (2015-2019) → 63.2% (2020-2024)
+38 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
46.5% (2015-2019) → 17.5% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
New homes permittedWorsening
3.2 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Poverty rateWorsening
15.0% (2015-2019) → 32.7% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
60.7% (2015-2019) → 48.4% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
69.4% (2015-2019) → 80.8% (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, Ivanhoe, Texas improved on 0 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 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.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Poverty+18 points15.0% → 32.7%

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Ivanhoe, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.6 min2015-2019	26.7 min2020-2024	−4.9 min	Within the margin of error	89%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.2%2015-2019	12.2%2020-2024	+4.1 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Broadband subscriptions	69.4%2015-2019	80.8%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	67%
Effective property tax rate	1.56%2015-2019	1.44%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	39%
High school diploma or higher	82.8%2015-2019	80.8%2020-2024	−2 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Home price to income ratio	2.0×2015-2019	1.9×2020-2024	−0.1×	Within the margin of error	84%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4402015-2019	0.4962020-2024	+0.056	Within the margin of error	14%
Median household income	$35,7862015-2019	$52,0542020-2024	+45%	Within the margin of error	80%
Poverty rate	15.0%2015-2019	32.7%2020-2024	+18 points	Declined	1%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	23.9%2015-2019	34.7%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	3%

“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 Ivanhoe, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Ivanhoe, 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, Ivanhoe, Texas itself moved −0.3 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

1,680 residents (±355)

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

667 households (±136)

Ivanhoe, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k31%†209
$25k–50k17%†113
$50k–75k19%

Homes

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

Owners and renters

667 households (±136)

Ivanhoe, Texas
Texas share

Own78%518
Rent22%†149

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−12.4 points).

† 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

521 workers (±238)

Ivanhoe, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone82%†428
Carpool14%†73
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 Tyler County, the county holding most of Ivanhoe's residents.

Tyler County has 246 employer establishments, 120 for every 10,000 residents (0.49× the US rate of 248; 0.55× Texas's), with 2,429 paid employees at an average annual pay of $40,672. The Census Bureau also counts 1,466 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 246; 1,466 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 120; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 2,429
Average annual pay: $40,672; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	25	12.2	2.21×More than typical	103	$16,408	—
Ambulatory health care services	16	7.8	0.38×Fewer than typical	129	$50,062	64
Restaurants and other eating places	16	7.8	0.43×Fewer than typical	242	$17,223	8
Specialty trade contractors	12	5.9	0.38×Fewer than typical	47	$38,915	171
General merchandise stores	11	5.4	3.05×More than typical	241	$30,485	14
Truck transportation	10	4.9	0.97×About typical	154	$50,253	53
Gasoline stations	9	4.4	1.36×Too few to compare	62	$25,403	—
Limited-service restaurants	9	4.4	0.55×Too few to compare	154	$16,597	—
Building equipment contractors	8	3.9	0.65×Too few to compare	36	$43,056	33
Lessors of real estate	7	3.4	0.28×Too few to compare	41	$10,829	56
Automotive repair and maintenance	6	2.9	0.58×Too few to compare	33	$35,879	33
Full-service restaurants	6	2.9	0.38×Too few to compare	88	$18,170	4

Rank places for an industry Open Tyler County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 20,426 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 $17.3K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Ivanhoe, Texas: $10.27 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $17.3K; −77% vs FY2025
Per resident: $10.27; US $1,994
Sole-source: 38%; 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

Department of the Army$14.9K87%
Defense Logistics Agency$2,32013%

Top recipients

PARAGON CONSTRUCTION SERVICES OF AMERICA INC.$7,52544%
JASPER-NEWTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.$6,05935%
BLACKSTONE ELECTRONICS LLC$2,32013%
REEVES, MELISSA$7844.5%
SAM HOUSTON ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC.$5713.3%

Spending by fiscal year

2.1KFY2017
21.2KFY2018
19.5KFY2019
2.4KFY2020
14.1KFY2021
948.5FY2022
8.8KFY2023
6.5KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Other heavy and civil engineering construction · 2379$7,52544%
Electric power generation, transmission and distribution · 2211$6,62938%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$2,32013%
Facilities support services · 5612$7844.5%

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 Ivanhoe, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Ivanhoe, Texas's figures are part of those of Tyler County, TX ($1.7M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Ivanhoe is mostly in Tyler County.

See federal money in Tyler 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.

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

House

Brian BabinR-TX-36 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.1%

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.

Tyler County2100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Tyler 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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