City · Jack County, Texas

Jacksboro, Texas

Jacksboro is a city in Jack County, Texas. It has 4,334 residents. Jacksboro, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 9 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,177 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #757 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), firearm deaths (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on uninsured residents (under 65) (high), traffic deaths (high) and mental health providers (low).

9Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,177 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #757 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 4,334 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 599.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4837168

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety90#1,519/15,637
Economy15#13,249/15,631
Housing18#12,327/14,977
Health30#10,859/15,609
Healthcare7#14,509/15,650
Environment38#9,556/15,453
Education11#13,918/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,202/15,650
Community19#12,708/15,651
Leisure & amenities3#15,176/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Suicide rate · low0.0 /100k
100/100Texas 14.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJack County value
Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJack County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJack County value
Violent crime rate · low87 /100k
89/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJack County value
Child care cost burden · low21.9%
88/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJack County value
Property crime rate · low535 /100k
87/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationJack County value

Weaknesses

Uninsured residents (under 65) · high28.7%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Traffic deaths · high42.8 /100k
2/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataJack County value
Mental health providers · low32 /100k
2/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJack County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Texas 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyJack County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Texas 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJack County value
High school diploma or higher · low74.0%
5/100Texas 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.

Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 4.7× (2020-2024)
+111%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
63.6% (2015-2019) → 84.4% (2020-2024)
+21 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
0.2 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Median household incomeImproving
$33,940 (2015-2019) → $55,040 (2020-2024)
+62%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
21.2% (2015-2019) → 28.7% (2020-2024)
+7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateWorsening
5.4% (2015-2019) → 11.9% (2020-2024)
+6.6 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, Jacksboro, Texas improved on 3 of 14 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.

Improved3

Property tax−0.8 points2.11% → 1.32%
Household income+62%$33,940 → $55,040
Broadband+21 points63.6% → 84.4%

Declined1

Price / income+2.5×2.2× → 4.7×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Jacksboro, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	26.8 min2015-2019	26.7 min2020-2024	−0.1 min	Within the margin of error	49%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.6%2015-2019	11.0%2020-2024	−1.6 points	Within the margin of error	18%
Broadband subscriptions	63.6%2015-2019	84.4%2020-2024	+21 points	Improved	91%
Child poverty rate	34.2%2015-2019	35.2%2020-2024	+1 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Effective property tax rate	2.11%2015-2019	1.32%2020-2024	−0.8 points	Improved	98%
High school diploma or higher	75.2%2015-2019	74.0%2020-2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	4.7×2020-2024	+2.5×	Declined	2%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5372015-2019	0.4982020-2024	−0.039	Within the margin of error	79%
Median household income	$33,9402015-2019	$55,0402020-2024	+62%	Improved	92%
Poverty rate	24.6%2015-2019	21.8%2020-2024	−2.8 points	Within the margin of error	68%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	29.5%2015-2019	31.4%2020-2024	+1.9 points	Within the margin of error	40%
Rent-burdened households	48.9%2015-2019	53.7%2020-2024	+4.8 points	Within the margin of error	38%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	21.2%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+7.5 points	Within the margin of error	6%

“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 Jacksboro, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Jacksboro, 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, Jacksboro, Texas itself moved −2.8 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

4,334 residents (±12)

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

1,377 households (±119)

Jacksboro, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k28%†391
$25k–50k18%†243
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,377 households (±119)

Jacksboro, Texas
Texas share

Own68%939
Rent32%†438

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

1,337 workers (±174)

Jacksboro, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone90%1,201
Carpool2.5%†33
Public transit0.0%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 Jack County, the county holding most of Jacksboro's residents.

Jack County has 220 employer establishments, 239 for every 10,000 residents (0.96× the US rate of 248; 1.10× Texas's), with 1,925 paid employees at an average annual pay of $62,178. The Census Bureau also counts 876 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 220; 876 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 239; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 1,925
Average annual pay: $62,178; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	19	20.7	1.33×More than typical	135	$56,296	95
Restaurants and other eating places	14	15.2	0.83×About typical	127	$15,252	3
Truck transportation	13	14.1	2.79×More than typical	44	$67,955	34
Religious organizations	9	9.8	1.76×Too few to compare	35	$22,543	—
Lessors of real estate	8	8.7	0.71×Too few to compare	13	$47,538	46
Building equipment contractors	7	7.6	1.26×Too few to compare	18	$51,889	13
Management, scientific and technical consulting	7	7.6	1.13×Too few to compare	10	$75,700	21
Automotive repair and maintenance	6	6.5	1.30×Too few to compare	11	$40,455	11
Limited-service restaurants	6	6.5	0.81×Too few to compare	70	$13,286	—
Other specialty trade contractors	6	6.5	2.60×Too few to compare	84	$63,143	46
Construction of buildings	5	5.4	0.72×Too few to compare	17	$64,706	49
Full-service restaurants	5	5.4	0.71×Too few to compare	51	$18,745	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 9,199 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 Jacksboro, Texas: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
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

253.7FY2019

What was bought

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

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

See federal money in Jack 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.

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

House

Roger WilliamsR-TX-25 · 100% of residentsWith party 98%Missed 3.7%

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.

Jack County17100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Jack 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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