City · Jasper County, Texas

Jasper, Texas

Jasper is a city in Jasper County, Texas. It has 7,299 residents. Jasper, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 5 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,845 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #893 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), homicide rate (low) and child care cost burden (low). It ranks worst on mental health care shortage (high), dental care shortage (high) and access to exercise opportunities (low).

5Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,845 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #893 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 7,299 (2020-2024)
Land area: 10 mi²
Density: 698.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4837420

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety49#7,977/15,637
Economy11#13,905/15,631
Housing33#10,038/14,977
Health7#14,587/15,609
Healthcare4#15,021/15,650
Environment21#12,232/15,453
Education9#14,255/15,649
Infrastructure37#9,793/15,650
Community19#12,624/15,651
Leisure & amenities3#15,122/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Job growth · high3.5%
95/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataJasper County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataJasper County value
Child care cost burden · low23.5%
82/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJasper County value
Hospital quality rating · high4.0
80/100Texas 3.4United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesJasper County value
Pharmacies · high2.1 /10k
78/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJasper County value
Public transit commuters · high1.3%
78/100Texas 0.9%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty

Weaknesses

Mental health care shortage · high20.0
1/100Texas 14.0United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationJasper County value
Dental care shortage · high20.0
1/100Texas 5.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationJasper County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low27.7%
2/100Texas 82.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteJasper County value
Adult obesity · high46.6%
3/100Texas 37.5%United States 38.2%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Grocery stores · low0.6 /10k
3/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsJasper County value
Physical inactivity · high37.5%
5/100Texas 29.6%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
65.4% (2015-2019) → 92.8% (2020-2024)
+27 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
19.8 /1k (2021) → 3.4 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−83%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.2× (2015-2019) → 2.9× (2020-2024)
+34%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateWorsening
35.5% (2015-2019) → 41.9% (2020-2024)
+6.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
High school diploma or higherImproving
82.5% (2015-2019) → 88.1% (2020-2024)
+5.6 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
16.4% (2015-2019) → 12.4% (2020-2024)
−4 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, Jasper, Texas improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 12 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

Broadband+27 points65.4% → 92.8%
Inequality−0.1050.527 → 0.422

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Jasper, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	23.8 min2015-2019	21.7 min2020-2024	−2.1 min	Within the margin of error	72%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.4%2015-2019	12.4%2020-2024	−4 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Broadband subscriptions	65.4%2015-2019	92.8%2020-2024	+27 points	Improved	97%
Child poverty rate	35.5%2015-2019	41.9%2020-2024	+6.4 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Effective property tax rate	1.40%2015-2019	1.03%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	82%
High school diploma or higher	82.5%2015-2019	88.1%2020-2024	+5.6 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Home price to income ratio	2.2×2015-2019	2.9×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	34%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5272015-2019	0.4222020-2024	−0.105	Improved	96%
Median household income	$38,1322015-2019	$45,0782020-2024	+18%	Within the margin of error	30%
Poverty rate	24.1%2015-2019	26.9%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	21%
Rent as share of income	33.6%2015-2019	37.3%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent-burdened households	61.3%2015-2019	61.4%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Unemployment rate	7.5%2015-2019	9.3%2020-2024	+1.7 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	19.1%2015-2019	19.2%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%

“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 Jasper, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Jasper, 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, Jasper, Texas itself moved +9.1 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

7,299 residents (±22)

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

3,301 households (±256)

Jasper, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k29%957
$25k–50k27%†882
$50k–75k19%†619

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,301 households (±256)

Jasper, Texas
Texas share

Own57%1,888
Rent43%1,413

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

2,552 workers (±329)

Jasper, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone83%2,121
Carpool7.2%†183
Public transit1.3%†33

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 Jasper County, the county holding most of Jasper's residents.

Jasper County has 641 employer establishments, 196 for every 10,000 residents (0.79× the US rate of 248; 0.90× Texas's), with 8,369 paid employees at an average annual pay of $44,907. The Census Bureau also counts 2,984 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 641; 2,984 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 196; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 8,369
Average annual pay: $44,907; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	59	18	0.86×About typical	1,631	$24,133	121
Restaurants and other eating places	50	15.3	0.83×About typical	903	$17,621	22
Religious organizations	39	11.9	2.15×More than typical	213	$18,399	—
Specialty trade contractors	26	7.9	0.51×Fewer than typical	179	$48,961	302
Limited-service restaurants	25	7.6	0.95×About typical	507	$16,773	5
Full-service restaurants	20	6.1	0.80×Fewer than typical	389	$18,668	6
Truck transportation	20	6.1	1.21×About typical	118	$47,068	82
Gasoline stations	19	5.8	1.79×More than typical	172	$18,227	—
Lessors of real estate	17	5.2	0.42×Fewer than typical	31	$179,161	138
General merchandise stores	16	4.9	2.77×More than typical	379	$31,778	27
Banks and credit unions	15	4.6	1.42×More than typical	169	$48,917	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	14	4.3	0.85×About typical	61	$39,607	58

Rank places for an industry Open Jasper County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 32,740 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 $32K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Jasper, Texas: $4.38 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $32K; −50% vs FY2025
Per resident: $4.38; US $1,994
Sole-source: 28%; US 30%
Single offer: 22%; 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$25.2K79%
Federal Acquisition Service$6,89222%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

18.6KFY2017
51.1KFY2018
82.5KFY2019
113.9KFY2020
19.5KFY2021
142.7KFY2022
41.9KFY2023
26.1KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$8,01425%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$7,49923%
Motor vehicle manufacturing · 3361$6,89222%
Waste collection · 5621$4,61814%
Pesticide, fertilizer, and other agricultural chemical manufacturing · 3253$3,39011%
Justice, public order, and safety activities · 9221$979

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

Jasper, Texas's figures are part of those of Jasper County, TX ($2.1M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.5% of that total.

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

See federal money in Jasper 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.

Jasper, 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.

Jasper County9100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Jasper 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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