City · Lamb County, Texas

Littlefield, Texas

Littlefield is a city in Lamb County, Texas. It has 5,822 residents. Littlefield, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 17 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,005 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #568 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), grocery stores (high) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on arts, entertainment and recreation (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (high) and dentists (low).

17Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,005 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #568 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 5,822 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 926.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4843024

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 72 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#7,958/15,637
Economy25#11,654/15,631
Housing40#8,916/14,977
Health18#12,851/15,609
Healthcare3#15,215/15,650
Environment72#4,378/15,453
Education30#10,985/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,853/15,650
Community22#12,240/15,651
Leisure & amenities14#13,382/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Home price to income ratio · low1.3×
99/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Grocery stores · high4.8 /10k
99/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLamb County value
Social associations · high18.1 /10k
96/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLamb County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low99 min
96/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLamb County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLamb County value
Public libraries · high2.4 /10k
93/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesLamb County value

Weaknesses

Arts, entertainment and recreation · low0.0 /10k
1/100Texas 3.4 /10kUnited States 5.5 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLamb County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high27.0%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Dentists · low16 /100k
3/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLamb County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · high197 mi
3/100Texas 43 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauLamb County value
Flu vaccinations · low25.0%
3/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLamb County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Texas 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLamb County value

Trends

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

Broadband subscriptionsImproving
68.5% (2015-2019) → 86.1% (2020-2024)
+18 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
36.6% (2015-2019) → 48.9% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
29.7% (2015-2019) → 19.3% (2020-2024)
−10 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Median household incomeImproving
$42,156 (2015-2019) → $60,636 (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604
Poverty rateImproving
22.4% (2015-2019) → 14.7% (2020-2024)
−7.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
12.1% (2015-2019) → 15.6% (2020-2024)
+3.5 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, Littlefield, Texas improved on 3 of 13 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.

Improved3

Broadband+18 points68.5% → 86.1%
Child poverty−10 points29.7% → 19.3%
Household income+44%$42,156 → $60,636

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Littlefield, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	17.2 min2015-2019	16.0 min2020-2024	−1.2 min	Within the margin of error	62%
Bachelor's degree or higher	12.1%2015-2019	15.6%2020-2024	+3.5 points	Within the margin of error	56%
Broadband subscriptions	68.5%2015-2019	86.1%2020-2024	+18 points	Improved	86%
Child poverty rate	29.7%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	−10 points	Improved	83%
Effective property tax rate	1.50%2015-2019	1.47%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	21%
High school diploma or higher	75.1%2015-2019	77.7%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	65%
Home price to income ratio	1.5×2015-2019	1.3×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	87%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4332015-2019	0.4322020-2024	−0.001	Within the margin of error	51%
Median household income	$42,1562015-2019	$60,6362020-2024	+44%	Improved	79%
Poverty rate	22.4%2015-2019	14.7%2020-2024	−7.7 points	Within the margin of error	89%
Rent as share of income	27.0%2015-2019	29.4%2020-2024	+2.4 points	Within the margin of error	37%
Rent-burdened households	36.6%2015-2019	48.9%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	27.1%2015-2019	27.0%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	47%

“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 Littlefield, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Littlefield, 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, Littlefield, Texas itself moved −2.2 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

5,822 residents (±23)

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

2,190 households (±140)

Littlefield, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k22%490
$25k–50k18%†390
$50k–75k21%†464

Homes

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

Owners and renters

2,190 households (±140)

Littlefield, Texas
Texas share

Own73%1,590
Rent27%600

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

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

2,775 workers (±208)

Littlefield, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone79%2,199
Carpool14%†394
Public transit0.2%†6

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 Lamb County, the county holding most of Littlefield's residents.

Lamb County has 230 employer establishments, 181 for every 10,000 residents (0.73× the US rate of 248; 0.83× Texas's), with 2,152 paid employees at an average annual pay of $45,561. The Census Bureau also counts 743 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 230; 743 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 181; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 2,152
Average annual pay: $45,561; US $68,342

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

Religious organizations	20	15.7	2.84×More than typical	81	$16,444	—
Restaurants and other eating places	12	9.4	0.51×Fewer than typical	191	$12,843	7
Ambulatory health care services	11	8.7	0.42×Fewer than typical	58	$48,724	19
Banks and credit unions	11	8.7	2.68×More than typical	71	$60,845	—
Specialty trade contractors	11	8.7	0.56×Fewer than typical	31	$57,903	85
Gasoline stations	9	7.1	2.18×Too few to compare	86	$18,535	—
General merchandise stores	8	6.3	3.56×Too few to compare	53	$20,491	6
Insurance agencies and brokerages	8	6.3	1.43×Too few to compare	19	$48,421	13
Full-service restaurants	6	4.7	0.61×Too few to compare	61	$9,246	6
Limited-service restaurants	6	4.7	0.59×Too few to compare	130	$14,531	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	5	3.9	0.78×Too few to compare	16	$39,750	24
Building equipment contractors	5	3.9	0.65×Too few to compare	9	$64,444	12

Rank places for an industry Open Lamb County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 12,713 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 Littlefield, Texas: $0 per resident (US $1,995).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,995
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

119.1FY2018
108.1KFY2021
44FY2022

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 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 Littlefield, Texas, so they do not add up across cities.

Littlefield, Texas's figures are part of those of Lamb County, TX ($19.1K 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: Littlefield is mostly in Lamb County.

See federal money in Lamb 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.

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

House

Jodey C. ArringtonR-TX-19 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 3.3%

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.

Lamb County28100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Lamb 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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