Census-designated place · Llano County, Texas

Kingsland, Texas

Kingsland is a census-designated place in Llano County, Texas. It has 7,330 residents. Kingsland, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 15 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,354 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #627 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), voter turnout (high) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on uninsured residents (under 65) (high), hot days (high) and injury deaths (high).

15Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,354 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #627 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 7,330 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 810.0 /mi²
FIPS code: 4839304

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.

Safety42#9,027/15,637
Economy15#13,233/15,631
Housing31#10,324/14,977
Health21#12,323/15,609
Healthcare12#13,761/15,650
Environment41#9,116/15,453
Education15#13,301/15,649
Infrastructure3#15,164/15,650
Community66#5,301/15,651
Leisure & amenities40#9,316/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low110 min
92/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLlano County value
Voter turnout · high75.0%
86/100Texas 57.8%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionLlano County value
Comfortable days · high31.3%
84/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLlano County value
Public libraries · high1.3 /10k
82/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLlano County value
Property crime rate · low640 /100k
81/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationLlano County value
Public EV charging ports · high9.4 /10k
80/100Texas 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyLlano County value

Weaknesses

Uninsured residents (under 65) · high29.5%
1/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Hot days · high117 days
6/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLlano County value
Injury deaths · high135 /100k
7/100Texas 69 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLlano County value
Traffic deaths · high29.3 /100k
8/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataLlano County value
Food environment index · low6.5
8/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLlano County value
High school diploma or higher · low84.3%
8/100Texas 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.

Child poverty rateWorsening
15.6% (2015-2019) → 34.1% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
73.3% (2015-2019) → 86.0% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.9× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+40%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Median household incomeImproving
$42,152 (2015-2019) → $57,268 (2020-2024)
+36%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
36.0% (2015-2019) → 29.5% (2020-2024)
−6.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
45.3% (2015-2019) → 51.5% (2020-2024)
+6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%

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, Kingsland, Texas improved on 2 of 13 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.

Improved2

Broadband+13 points73.3% → 86.0%
Household income+36%$42,152 → $57,268

Declined1

Price / income+1.1×2.9× → 4.0×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Kingsland, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	28.6 min2015-2019	32.6 min2020-2024	+4.0 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.4%2015-2019	20.3%2020-2024	+2.9 points	Within the margin of error	51%
Broadband subscriptions	73.3%2015-2019	86.0%2020-2024	+13 points	Improved	72%
Effective property tax rate	1.02%2015-2019	0.81%2020-2024	−0.2 points	Within the margin of error	60%
High school diploma or higher	79.0%2015-2019	84.3%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	83%
Home price to income ratio	2.9×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+1.1×	Declined	17%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4962015-2019	0.4832020-2024	−0.013	Within the margin of error	62%
Median household income	$42,1522015-2019	$57,2682020-2024	+36%	Improved	67%
Poverty rate	12.0%2015-2019	16.3%2020-2024	+4.3 points	Within the margin of error	15%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	28.1%2015-2019	31.1%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Rent-burdened households	45.3%2015-2019	51.5%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	34%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	36.0%2015-2019	29.5%2020-2024	−6.5 points	Within the margin of error	91%

“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 Kingsland, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Kingsland, 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, Kingsland, Texas itself moved −4 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

7,330 residents (±486)

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

3,281 households (±332)

Kingsland, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k23%†739
$25k–50k21%697
$50k–75k16%†526

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,281 households (±332)

Kingsland, Texas
Texas share

Own74%2,434
Rent26%847

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

2,876 workers (±340)

Kingsland, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone65%1,878
Carpool17%†503
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 Llano County, the county holding most of Kingsland's residents.

Llano County has 561 employer establishments, 244 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 1.12× Texas's), with 4,327 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,382. The Census Bureau also counts 2,635 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 561; 2,635 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 244; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 4,327
Average annual pay: $41,382; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	69	30	1.94×More than typical	332	$52,596	287
Lessors of real estate	42	18.3	1.48×More than typical	69	$48,536	348
Construction of buildings	35	15.2	2.01×More than typical	149	$60,671	149
Building equipment contractors	32	13.9	2.31×More than typical	167	$50,150	32
Restaurants and other eating places	32	13.9	0.76×Fewer than typical	453	$24,808	16
Ambulatory health care services	23	10	0.48×Fewer than typical	115	$63,348	69
Religious organizations	23	10	1.80×More than typical	81	$21,914	—
Real estate agents and brokers	22	9.6	1.97×More than typical	34	$51,441	134
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	19	8.3	2.50×More than typical	99	$52,101	12
Limited-service restaurants	17	7.4	0.92×About typical	333	$25,610	6
Services to buildings and dwellings	17	7.4	1.10×About typical	65	$41,692	242
Management, scientific and technical consulting	15	6.5	0.97×About typical	14	$131,714	113

Rank places for an industry Open Llano County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 22,978 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 Kingsland, 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

9.4KFY2017
683.6KFY2022
-185.9KFY2023

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

Kingsland, Texas's figures are part of those of Llano County, TX ($3.8M 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: Kingsland is mostly in Llano County.

See federal money in Llano 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.

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

House

August PflugerR-TX-11 · 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.

Llano County43100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Llano 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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