City · Cooke County, Texas

Lindsay (city), Texas

Lindsay is a city in Cooke County, Texas, part of the Gainesville, TX metro area. It has 1,142 residents. Lindsay (city), Texas has a quality-of-life score of 29 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,076 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #334 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), unemployment rate (low) and poverty rate (low). It ranks worst on traffic deaths (high), mental health providers (low) and high ozone days (high).

29Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,076 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #334 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,142 (2020-2024)
Land area: 2 mi²
Density: 700.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 4842868

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.

Safety45#8,557/15,637
Economy94#881/15,631
Housing30#10,544/14,977
Health57#6,694/15,609
Healthcare16#13,212/15,650
Environment29#11,032/15,453
Education41#9,196/15,649
Infrastructure29#11,042/15,650
Community25#11,813/15,651
Leisure & amenities11#13,969/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Child care cost burden · low19.5%
95/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCooke County value
Unemployment rate · low0.5%
95/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Poverty rate · low2.8%
94/100Texas 13.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001
Distance to an Amtrak station · low6 mi
93/100Texas 43 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauCooke County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low112 min
92/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesCooke County value
Median household income · high$115,417
83/100Texas $79,723United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013

Weaknesses

Traffic deaths · high30.2 /100k
7/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataCooke County value
Mental health providers · low70 /100k
9/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCooke County value
High ozone days · high8 days
10/100Texas 7 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyCooke County value
High school diploma or higher · low93.7%
10/100Texas 86.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Primary care physicians · low28 /100k
11/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCooke County value
Pharmacies · low0.9 /10k
11/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCooke County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,257 (2015-2019) → 1,142 (2020-2024)
−9.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
New homes permittedWorsening
6.5 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.7× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+78%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
93.0% (2015-2019) → 83.2% (2020-2024)
−9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Average commute timeWorsening
20.5 min (2015-2019) → 26.9 min (2020-2024)
+31%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
40.0% (2015-2019) → 33.8% (2020-2024)
−6.2 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, Lindsay (city), 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

Price / income+1.3×1.7× → 3.1×

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Lindsay (city), Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	20.5 min2015-2019	26.9 min2020-2024	+6.4 min	Within the margin of error	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	40.0%2015-2019	33.8%2020-2024	−6.2 points	Within the margin of error	5%
Broadband subscriptions	93.0%2015-2019	83.2%2020-2024	−9.8 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Child poverty rate	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	42%
High school diploma or higher	97.7%2015-2019	93.7%2020-2024	−4.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Home price to income ratio	1.7×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+1.3×	Declined	12%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4022015-2019	0.3962020-2024	−0.006	Within the margin of error	56%
Median household income	$115,9172015-2019	$115,4172020-2024	−0.4%	Within the margin of error	7%
Poverty rate	2.6%2015-2019	2.8%2020-2024	+0.3 points	Within the margin of error	41%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	27.3%2015-2019	27.7%2020-2024	+0.4 points	Within the margin of error	52%

“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 Lindsay (city), Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Lindsay (city), 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, Lindsay (city), Texas itself moved −24.9 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

1,142 residents (±280)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†
50–59†
40–49†
30–39†
20–29†
10–19†
Under 10†

Share of all residents, each sex

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: 10–19 men (−4.0 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B01001View table on data.census.gov

Race and Hispanic origin

1,142 residents (±280)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

White90%1,024
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino2.8%†32
Asian0.4%†4
American Indian and Alaska Native0.0%0
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.0%0
Other or two or more races7.2%†82

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B03002View table on data.census.gov

Education

728 residents (±157)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

No high school diploma6.3%†46
High school or GED19%†140
Some college18%†133
Associate degree22%†163
Bachelor's degree18%†128
Graduate degree16%†118

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B15003View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

453 households (±108)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Under $25k10%†46
$25k–50k17%†79
$50k–75k11%†52
$75k–100k6.4%†29
$100k–150k28%†126
$150k–200k16%†74
$200k or more10%†47

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B19001View table on data.census.gov

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Homes

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

Owners and renters

453 households (±108)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Own88%397
Rent12%†56

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.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

44 households (±27)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Under $75025%†11
$750–1,0000.0%0
$1,000–1,50030%†13

Home values

397 homes (±99)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Under $150k10%†41
$150k–250k18%†72
$250k–400k35%†137

Age of homes

466 homes (±110)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

2010 or later27%†126
2000–200926%120
1980–199922%†103

Size of homes

466 homes (±110)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom0.4%†2
2 bedrooms7.7%†36

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

572 workers (±149)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Drive alone79%†454
Carpool6.5%†37
Public transit0.0%0
Walk0.0%0
Bike0.0%0
Work from home12%†68
Other2.3%†13

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Work from home (+6.7 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 · Table B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

504 workers (±144)

Lindsay (city), Texas
Texas share

Under 15 min42%†211
15–29 min32%†162
30–44 min6.7%†34

Counts are survey estimates, each with a margin of error. The grouping into ranges is ours; every count is the Census Bureau's.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Gainesville, TX

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 Cooke County, the county holding most of Lindsay's residents.

Cooke County has 1,040 employer establishments, 238 for every 10,000 residents (0.96× the US rate of 248; 1.09× Texas's), with 13,433 paid employees at an average annual pay of $52,817. The Census Bureau also counts 4,426 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 1,040; 4,426 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 238; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 13,433
Average annual pay: $52,817; US $68,342

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

Specialty trade contractors	84	19.2	1.24×About typical	487	$54,639	553
Restaurants and other eating places	81	18.5	1.01×About typical	1,885	$21,201	23
Ambulatory health care services	66	15.1	0.72×Fewer than typical	410	$49,771	133
Building equipment contractors	41	9.4	1.56×More than typical	173	$52,503	94
Full-service restaurants	35	8	1.04×About typical	615	$21,268	10
Limited-service restaurants	35	8	1.00×About typical	1,167	$21,215	6
Religious organizations	35	8	1.44×More than typical	189	$21,513	—
Lessors of real estate	32	7.3	0.59×Fewer than typical	66	$33,136	406
Automotive repair and maintenance	29	6.6	1.32×More than typical	173	$49,064	87
Construction of buildings	28	6.4	0.85×About typical	54	$59,815	165
Other specialty trade contractors	25	5.7	2.28×More than typical	159	$49,774	224
Gasoline stations	24	5.5	1.69×More than typical	246	$27,541	—

Rank places for an industry Open Cooke County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 43,773 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: Lindsay is mostly in Cooke County.

See federal money in Cooke 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.

Lindsay (city), Texas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

House

Brandon GillR-TX-26 · 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.

Cooke County38100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Gainesville, TX30

Other cities and towns in Cooke 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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