City · Knox County, Texas
Munday, Texas
Munday is a city in Knox County, Texas. It has 1,407 residents. Munday, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 36 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,985 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #247 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on students per teacher (low), grocery stores (high) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on dentists (low), flu vaccinations (low) and mammography screening (low).
- Quality-of-life score
- #9,985 of 15,651 cities and towns
- Texas
- #247 of 1,016 in TX
- Population
- 1,407 (2020-2024)
- Land area
- 1 mi²
- Density
- 985.9 /mi²
- FIPS code
- 4850040
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
Scores by category
Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.
- Safety77#3,642/15,637
- Economy29#11,049/15,631
- Housing82#2,625/14,977
- Health25#11,761/15,609
- Healthcare3#15,206/15,650
- Environment45#8,472/15,453
- Education23#12,094/15,649
- Infrastructure30#11,006/15,650
- Community56#6,924/15,651
- Leisure & amenities59#6,455/15,651
Strengths · Weaknesses
Indicators where Munday, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Knox 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
- Students per teacher · low8.4×
- Grocery stores · high6.3 /10k
- Firearm deaths · low0.0 /100k99/100Texas 13.7 /100kUnited States 12.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataKnox County value
- Rent as share of income · low18.6%
- Home price to income ratio · low1.4×
- Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k99/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataKnox County value
Weaknesses
- Dentists · low0 /100k0/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKnox County value
- Flu vaccinations · low15.0%0/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKnox County value
- Mammography screening · low21.0%0/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteKnox County value
- Traffic deaths · high60.6 /100k1/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataKnox County value
- Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
- Uninsured residents (under 65) · high26.6%
Trends
The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.
- PopulationRising
1,155 (2015-2019) → 1,407 (2020-2024)
+22%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
- Rent-burdened householdsImproving
20.8% (2015-2019) → 4.5% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
- Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
23.0% (2015-2019) → 11.4% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
- Broadband subscriptionsImproving
79.5% (2015-2019) → 90.5% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
- Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
16.6% (2015-2019) → 26.6% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
- Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.0× (2015-2019) → 1.4× (2020-2024)
+47%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
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.
Cities and towns like Munday, Texas five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Munday, 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.
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).
Income
How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.
Homes
Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.
Getting to work
How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.
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.
Federal contracts performed here
Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Munday is mostly in Knox County.
See federal money in Knox CountyRepresentation 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.
County
A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.
Other cities and towns in Knox 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
