Town · Lee County, Texas

Lexington, Texas

Lexington is a town in Lee County, Texas. It has 1,365 residents. Lexington, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 19 out of 100 (very low), ranking #12,649 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #528 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on job growth (high), homicide rate (low) and property crime rate (low). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), distance to an emergency room (high) and mental health providers (low).

19Very low

Quality-of-life score: #12,649 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #528 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,365 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 955.3 /mi²
FIPS code: 4842532

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.

Safety72#4,442/15,637
Economy30#10,931/15,631
Housing40#8,995/14,977
Health51#7,600/15,609
Healthcare7#14,605/15,650
Environment55#6,929/15,453
Education7#14,480/15,649
Infrastructure21#12,292/15,650
Community21#12,389/15,651
Leisure & amenities6#14,687/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Lexington, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Lee 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 · high22.1%
100/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataLee County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLee County value
Property crime rate · low405 /100k
93/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationLee County value
Comfortable days · high31.2%
84/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationLee County value
Preventable hospital stays · low2,042 /100k
83/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLee County value
Natural hazard risk · low11.6
81/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyLee County value

Weaknesses

Grocery stores · low0.5 /10k
2/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLee County value
Distance to an emergency room · high19.8 mi
3/100Texas 5.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLee County value
Mental health providers · low38 /100k
4/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLee County value
Pharmacies · low0.5 /10k
4/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLee County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low8.4%
5/100Texas 33.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Reading scores · low2.63
5/100Texas 2.89United States 3.052018University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLee County value

Trends

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

Child poverty rateWorsening
3.9% (2015-2019) → 21.7% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
10.0 /1k (2021) → 1.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−85%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
23.7% (2015-2019) → 9.8% (2020-2024)
−14 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Unemployment rateWorsening
1.2% (2015-2019) → 10.9% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
21.3% (2015-2019) → 29.8% (2020-2024)
+8.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
42.4% (2015-2019) → 49.2% (2020-2024)
+6.8 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, Lexington, Texas improved on 1 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved1

Uninsured−14 points23.7% → 9.8%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Lexington, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	38.7 min2015-2019	37.8 min2020-2024	−0.9 min	Within the margin of error	58%
Bachelor's degree or higher	8.3%2015-2019	8.4%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Broadband subscriptions	82.4%2015-2019	86.9%2020-2024	+4.5 points	Within the margin of error	28%
Effective property tax rate	1.37%2015-2019	0.93%2020-2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	87%
High school diploma or higher	85.0%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	+3.4 points	Within the margin of error	72%
Home price to income ratio	2.6×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.5×	Within the margin of error	49%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4602015-2019	0.3892020-2024	−0.071	Within the margin of error	90%
Median household income	$51,0102015-2019	$56,3542020-2024	+10%	Within the margin of error	17%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent-burdened households	42.4%2015-2019	49.2%2020-2024	+6.8 points	Within the margin of error	32%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	23.7%2015-2019	9.8%2020-2024	−14 points	Improved	99%

“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 Lexington, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lexington, 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, Lexington, Texas itself moved +0.6 points in standing on average over the same 9 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

1,365 residents (±354)

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

619 households (±157)

Lexington, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k17%†108
$25k–50k23%†143
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

619 households (±157)

Lexington, Texas
Texas share

Own48%†296
Rent52%†323

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−24.8 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

589 workers (±180)

Lexington, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone75%†444
Carpool8.1%†48
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 Lee County, the county holding most of Lexington's residents.

Lee County has 430 employer establishments, 236 for every 10,000 residents (0.95× the US rate of 248; 1.08× Texas's), with 5,305 paid employees at an average annual pay of $65,827. The Census Bureau also counts 1,792 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 430; 1,792 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 236; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 5,305
Average annual pay: $65,827; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	46	25.2	1.63×More than typical	261	$58,946	206
Restaurants and other eating places	30	16.4	0.89×About typical	314	$23,975	16
Building equipment contractors	29	15.9	2.64×More than typical	127	$59,685	47
Limited-service restaurants	17	9.3	1.16×About typical	206	$22,990	7
Religious organizations	17	9.3	1.68×More than typical	187	$19,289	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	15	8.2	1.63×More than typical	54	$53,333	35
Electrical contractors and wiring installation	15	8.2	3.32×More than typical	83	$58,470	16
Ambulatory health care services	13	7.1	0.34×Fewer than typical	71	$53,070	59
Construction of buildings	13	7.1	0.94×About typical	34	$50,382	84
Gasoline stations	13	7.1	2.20×More than typical	171	$19,877	8
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors	13	7.1	2.16×More than typical	42	$61,738	27
Truck transportation	12	6.6	1.30×More than typical	109	$62,642	50

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 18,259 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: Lexington is mostly in Lee County.

See federal money in Lee 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.

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

House

Michael T. McCaulR-TX-10 · 100% of residentsWith party 96%Missed 14.4%

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.

Lee County26100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Lee 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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