City · Bowie County, Texas

Nash, Texas

Nash is a city in Bowie County, Texas, part of the Texarkana, TX-AR metro area. It has 4,032 residents. Nash, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 5 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,908 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #906 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), average commute time (low) and social associations (high). It ranks worst on distance to an airport (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and suicide rate (high).

5Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,908 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #906 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 4,032 (2020-2024)
Land area: 4 mi²
Density: 901.1 /mi²
FIPS code: 4850352

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety19#12,579/15,637
Economy24#11,815/15,631
Housing22#11,717/14,977
Health10#14,010/15,609
Healthcare16#13,214/15,650
Environment10#13,905/15,453
Education35#10,192/15,649
Infrastructure24#11,873/15,650
Community11#13,974/15,651
Leisure & amenities23#12,038/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Nash, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Bowie 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 · low23.3%
83/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBowie County value
Average commute time · low17.1 min
82/100Texas 26.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Social associations · high12.8 /10k
81/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBowie County value
Students per teacher · low12.2×
80/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsBowie County value
Math scores · high3.19
72/100Texas 3.15United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBowie County value
Distance to an Amtrak station · low10 mi
71/100Texas 43 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBowie County value

Weaknesses

Distance to an airport · high141 mi
3/100Texas 33 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBowie County value
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) · high9.9 µg/m³
3/100Texas 8.9 µg/m³United States 8.0 µg/m³2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyBowie County value
Suicide rate · high29.4 /100k
4/100Texas 14.4 /100kUnited States 14.1 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataBowie County value
Primary care shortage · high18.0
5/100Texas 5.5United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBowie County value
Dental care shortage · high18.0
6/100Texas 5.8United States 5.7Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationBowie County value
Life expectancy · low72.3 yrs
9/100Texas 77.2 yrsUnited States 77.6 yrs2021-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBowie County value

Trends

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

PopulationRising
3,464 (2015-2019) → 4,032 (2020-2024)
+16%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
47.2% (2015-2019) → 67.1% (2020-2024)
+20 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
43.9 /1k (2021) → 0.5 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−99%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Child poverty rateImproving
32.2% (2015-2019) → 14.3% (2020-2024)
−18 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent as share of incomeWorsening
28.9% (2015-2019) → 40.3% (2020-2024)
+11 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Poverty rateImproving
22.7% (2015-2019) → 13.8% (2020-2024)
−8.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%

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, Nash, Texas improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 12 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

Inequality+0.1060.352 → 0.458

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Nash, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	15.0 min2015-2019	17.1 min2020-2024	+2.1 min	Within the margin of error	26%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.1%2015-2019	19.3%2020-2024	+5.3 points	Within the margin of error	69%
Broadband subscriptions	73.9%2015-2019	76.9%2020-2024	+3 points	Within the margin of error	20%
Effective property tax rate	2.02%2015-2019	1.11%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	99%
High school diploma or higher	93.3%2015-2019	88.4%2020-2024	−5 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Home price to income ratio	3.2×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	−0.2×	Within the margin of error	85%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3522015-2019	0.4582020-2024	+0.106	Declined	4%
Median household income	$36,3822015-2019	$50,5922020-2024	+39%	Within the margin of error	72%
Poverty rate	22.7%2015-2019	13.8%2020-2024	−8.9 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	28.9%2015-2019	40.3%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Rent-burdened households	47.2%2015-2019	67.1%2020-2024	+20 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	21.2%2015-2019	12.9%2020-2024	−8.3 points	Within the margin of error	94%

“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 Nash, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Nash, 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, Nash, Texas itself moved −14.1 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

4,032 residents (±25)

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

1,704 households (±253)

Nash, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k25%†419
$25k–50k25%†424
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,704 households (±253)

Nash, Texas
Texas share

Own67%1,138
Rent33%†566

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (+17.0 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

1,825 workers (±298)

Nash, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone85%1,560
Carpool7.9%†144
Public transit0.0%0

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 Texarkana, TX-AR

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 Bowie County, the county holding most of Nash's residents.

Bowie County has 2,273 employer establishments, 248 for every 10,000 residents (1.00× the US rate of 248; 1.14× Texas's), with 33,330 paid employees at an average annual pay of $46,273. The Census Bureau also counts 6,996 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,273; 6,996 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 248; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 33,330
Average annual pay: $46,273; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	223	24.3	1.17×About typical	3,069	$71,555	360
Restaurants and other eating places	191	20.8	1.13×About typical	4,945	$19,303	29
Specialty trade contractors	120	13.1	0.85×About typical	1,128	$59,848	529
Lessors of real estate	112	12.2	0.99×About typical	374	$42,059	579
Limited-service restaurants	109	11.9	1.48×More than typical	2,768	$18,219	15
Religious organizations	92	10	1.81×More than typical	655	$20,774	—
Offices of physicians	73	8	1.23×About typical	1,014	$103,085	74
Automotive repair and maintenance	65	7.1	1.41×More than typical	457	$44,407	153
Full-service restaurants	64	7	0.91×About typical	1,883	$20,045	12
Services to buildings and dwellings	59	6.4	0.95×About typical	417	$29,247	602
Building equipment contractors	54	5.9	0.98×About typical	558	$69,894	108
Banks and credit unions	53	5.8	1.79×More than typical	844	$56,910	7

Rank places for an industry Open Bowie County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 91,688 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 $2.9M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Nash, Texas: $714 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2.9M; −42% vs FY2025
Per resident: $714; US $1,994
Sole-source: 35%; US 30%
Single offer: 12%; 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

Department of the Army$2.6M90%
Department of Veterans Affairs$215.8K7.5%
Defense Logistics Agency$49.8K1.7%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$9,0030.3%
Federal Acquisition Service$7,3910.3%
Offices, Boards and Divisions$7,1290.2%
Public Buildings Service$4100.0%
Federal Prison Industries / Unicor$66.880.0%

Top recipients

AMENTUM SERVICES, INC.$951.3K33%
CHEROKEE NATION ARMORED SOLUTIONS, LLC$412.3K14%
QUINTECH INC$215.8K7.5%
ADVANCED STRUCTURAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$203.8K7.1%
HARTECH GROUP LLC$195.8K6.8%

Spending by fiscal year

2.5MFY2017
3.1MFY2018
3.5MFY2019
1.9MFY2020
4.4MFY2021
2.3MFY2022
3.6MFY2023
4.8M

Top industries (NAICS)

Automotive repair and maintenance · 8111$951.3K33%
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance · 8113$546.6K19%
Forging and stamping · 3321$273.8K9.5%
Metalworking machinery manufacturing · 3335$195.8K6.8%
Engine, turbine, and power transmission equipment manufacturing · 3336$194.5K6.8%
Facilities support services · 5612

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Nash, Texas

POWEREX MEDICAL GAS COMPRESSOR REPLACEMENT (4)$215.4K
QUINTECH INC· Bowie County, TX· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 20, 2025 – Nov 20, 2025· 36C25626P0184
EMERGENCY ROOM 1-5 AREA MEDICAL GAS PANEL REPLACEMENT, LCD ALARM CONVERSION$15.6K
QUINTECH INC· Bowie County, TX· Health & medical· Oct 2, 2025 – Oct 2, 2025· 36C24926P0034
NA$7,632
RELIANCE PLUMBING GROUP, INC.· Bowie County, TX· Professional services· Jun 1, 2026 – Jun 1, 2026· 15JA7826P00000014

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

Nash, Texas's figures are part of those of Bowie County, TX ($169.9M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.7% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Nash is mostly in Bowie County.

See federal money in Bowie 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.

Nash, Texas is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Bowie County19100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Texarkana, TX-AR6

Other cities and towns in Bowie 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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