City · Atascosa County, Texas

Pleasanton, Texas

Pleasanton is a city in Atascosa County, Texas, part of the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro area. It has 11,011 residents. Pleasanton, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 11 out of 100 (very low), ranking #13,909 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #708 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on time spent in the emergency room (low), new homes permitted (high) and median Air Quality Index (low). It ranks worst on hot days (high), drought exposure (high) and mammography screening (low).

11Very low

Quality-of-life score: #13,909 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #708 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 11,011 (2020-2024)
Land area: 9 mi²
Density: 1,205.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 4858280

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.

Safety33#10,521/15,637
Economy36#10,066/15,631
Housing65#5,213/14,977
Health35#10,134/15,609
Healthcare7#14,539/15,650
Environment49#7,899/15,453
Education8#14,412/15,649
Infrastructure7#14,521/15,650
Community3#15,239/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,547/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Time spent in the emergency room · low111 min
92/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesAtascosa County value
New homes permitted · high9.0 /1k
86/100Texas 6.3 /1kUnited States 4.2 /1kSep 2025–Aug 2026U.S. Census BureauProvisional data
Median Air Quality Index · low35
86/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAtascosa County value
Comfortable days · high31.5%
85/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationAtascosa County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyAtascosa County value
Drug overdose deaths · low9.5 /100k
83/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataAtascosa County value

Weaknesses

Hot days · high138 days
1/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationAtascosa County value
Drought exposure · high100%
2/100Texas 57%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAAAtascosa County value
Mammography screening · low29.0%
2/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAtascosa County value
Reading scores · low2.52
2/100Texas 2.89United States 3.052018University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAtascosa County value
Job growth · low-3.9%
4/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataAtascosa County value
Primary care physicians · low20 /100k
5/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteAtascosa County value

Trends

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

New homes permittedImproving
2.1 /1k (2021) → 9.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+329%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
87.7% (2015-2019) → 81.8% (2020-2024)
−5.9 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
2.4× (2015-2019) → 3.1× (2020-2024)
+29%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Child poverty rateImproving
21.1% (2015-2019) → 15.7% (2020-2024)
−5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
33.3% (2015-2019) → 37.0% (2020-2024)
+3.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
85.5% (2015-2019) → 82.0% (2020-2024)
−3.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%

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, Pleasanton, Texas improved on 0 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 13 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

Broadband−5.9 points87.7% → 81.8%

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Pleasanton, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.0 min2015-2019	24.1 min2020-2024	−2.9 min	Within the margin of error	79%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.3%2015-2019	21.2%2020-2024	+0.8 points	Within the margin of error	33%
Broadband subscriptions	87.7%2015-2019	81.8%2020-2024	−5.9 points	Declined	2%
Child poverty rate	21.1%2015-2019	15.7%2020-2024	−5.5 points	Within the margin of error	70%
Effective property tax rate	1.59%2015-2019	1.55%2020-2024	−0 points	Within the margin of error	23%
High school diploma or higher	85.5%2015-2019	82.0%2020-2024	−3.5 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Home price to income ratio	2.4×2015-2019	3.1×2020-2024	+0.7×	Within the margin of error	36%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4072015-2019	0.4362020-2024	+0.028	Within the margin of error	28%
Median household income	$65,0162015-2019	$65,0342020-2024	+0%	Within the margin of error	8%
Poverty rate	14.9%2015-2019	12.6%2020-2024	−2.3 points	Within the margin of error	64%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.8%2015-2019	25.1%2020-2024	−0.7 points	Within the margin of error	61%
Rent-burdened households	33.3%2015-2019	37.0%2020-2024	+3.7 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	18.5%2015-2019	15.9%2020-2024	−2.5 points	Within the margin of error	73%

“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 Pleasanton, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Pleasanton, 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, Pleasanton, Texas itself moved −12.7 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

11,011 residents (±30)

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

3,659 households (±333)

Pleasanton, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k18%†668
$25k–50k24%†863
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

3,659 households (±333)

Pleasanton, Texas
Texas share

Own62%2,262
Rent38%1,397

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

4,233 workers (±351)

Pleasanton, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone82%3,468
Carpool10%†432
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 San Antonio-New Braunfels, 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 Atascosa County, the county holding most of Pleasanton's residents.

Atascosa County has 838 employer establishments, 161 for every 10,000 residents (0.65× the US rate of 248; 0.74× Texas's), with 13,139 paid employees at an average annual pay of $59,233. The Census Bureau also counts 4,789 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 838; 4,789 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 161; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 13,139
Average annual pay: $59,233; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	63	12.1	0.66×Fewer than typical	1,363	$19,429	53
Specialty trade contractors	57	10.9	0.71×Fewer than typical	367	$71,823	765
Ambulatory health care services	51	9.8	0.47×Fewer than typical	485	$54,456	119
Truck transportation	35	6.7	1.33×More than typical	578	$96,798	262
Limited-service restaurants	31	5.9	0.74×Fewer than typical	1,010	$19,050	12
Religious organizations	29	5.6	1.00×About typical	111	$22,009	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	26	5	0.99×About typical	106	$35,208	150
Full-service restaurants	26	5	0.65×Fewer than typical	307	$20,756	23
Building equipment contractors	25	4.8	0.80×Fewer than typical	95	$48,147	158
Construction of buildings	22	4.2	0.56×Fewer than typical	70	$45,386	260
Gasoline stations	22	4.2	1.30×More than typical	269	$16,268	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	22	4.2	0.96×About typical	68	$49,868	74

Rank places for an industry Open Atascosa County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 52,116 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 $4,178 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Pleasanton, Texas: $0.38 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $4,178; −56% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0.38; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.0%; 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 Veterans Affairs$4,178100%

Top recipients

CLC SERVICES INC$4,178100%

Spending by fiscal year

0FY2017
32.6KFY2021
27.7KFY2022
11.1KFY2023
1.4KFY2024
9.4KFY2025
4.2KFY2026

What was bought

Facilities & utilities

Top industries (NAICS)

Waste collection · 5621$4,178100%

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

Pleasanton, Texas's figures are part of those of Atascosa County, TX ($68.2K in FY2026), never added to them: 6.1% of that total.

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

See federal money in Atascosa 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.

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

House

Henry CuellarD-TX-28 · 100% of residentsWith party 65%Missed 1.3%

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.

Atascosa County11100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX32

Other cities and towns in Atascosa 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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