Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety10#14,077/15,637
Economy6#14,754/15,631
Housing23#11,574/14,977
Health17#13,020/15,609
Healthcare26#11,516/15,650
Environment3#14,947/15,453
Education11#13,893/15,649
Infrastructure6#14,696/15,650
Community9#14,209/15,651
Leisure & amenities36#10,036/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Public transit commuters · high2.3%
85/100Texas 0.9%United States 3.2%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08301High uncertainty
Depression · low19.7%
83/100Texas 21.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Restaurants and bars · high11.0 /10k
81/100Texas 7.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsNueces County value
Comfortable days · high30.6%
81/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationNueces County value
Access to exercise opportunities · high92.4%
74/100Texas 82.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNueces County value
Child care cost burden · low25.4%
72/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteNueces County value

Weaknesses

Physical inactivity · high43.0%
1/100Texas 29.6%United States 26.5%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Hot days · high140 days
1/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationNueces County value
Poor or fair health · high37.4%
1/100Texas 23.2%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high27.5%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Violent crime rate · high753 /100k
2/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationNueces County value
Poverty rate · high32.2%
3/100Texas 13.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
11,400 (2015-2019) → 10,236 (2020-2024)
−10%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
58.1% (2015-2019) → 79.9% (2020-2024)
+22 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedWorsening
7.9 /1k (2021) → 0.2 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−98%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Child poverty rateImproving
60.3% (2015-2019) → 45.0% (2020-2024)
−15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.8× (2015-2019) → 3.0× (2020-2024)
+66%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
High school diploma or higherImproving
65.8% (2015-2019) → 73.0% (2020-2024)
+7.3 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, Robstown, Texas improved on 3 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 11 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

Unemployment−7.3 points15.4% → 8.2%
Broadband+22 points58.1% → 79.9%
Child poverty−15 points60.3% → 45.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Robstown, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	25.8 min2015-2019	22.7 min2020-2024	−3.1 min	Within the margin of error	80%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.3%2015-2019	7.7%2020-2024	−3.6 points	Within the margin of error	10%
Broadband subscriptions	58.1%2015-2019	79.9%2020-2024	+22 points	Improved	92%
Child poverty rate	60.3%2015-2019	45.0%2020-2024	−15 points	Improved	89%
Effective property tax rate	1.87%2015-2019	2.06%2020-2024	+0.2 points	Within the margin of error	3%
High school diploma or higher	65.8%2015-2019	73.0%2020-2024	+7.3 points	Within the margin of error	90%
Home price to income ratio	1.8×2015-2019	3.0×2020-2024	+1.2×	Within the margin of error	16%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4732015-2019	0.5182020-2024	+0.045	Within the margin of error	19%
Median household income	$35,5042015-2019	$34,4362020-2024	−3%	Within the margin of error	6%
Poverty rate	38.4%2015-2019	32.2%2020-2024	−6.3 points	Within the margin of error	85%
Rent as share of income	32.4%2015-2019	33.1%2020-2024	+0.7 points	Within the margin of error	49%
Rent-burdened households	53.4%2015-2019	56.1%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	46%
Unemployment rate	15.4%2015-2019	8.2%2020-2024	−7.3 points	Improved	98%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	21.3%2015-2019	27.5%2020-2024	+6.2 points	Within the margin of error	7%

“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 Robstown, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Robstown, 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, Robstown, Texas itself moved −4.5 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

10,236 residents (±20)

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: Under 10 men (−4.8 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

10,236 residents (±20)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

White2.7%†278
Black0.3%†34
Hispanic or Latino97%9,881

Education

6,844 residents (±449)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

No high school diploma27%1,845
High school or GED44%2,985
Some college15%†1,048

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

3,784 households (±318)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k41%†1,555
$25k–50k17%†641
$50k–75k10%†397
$75k–100k15%†549
$100k–150k12%†439
$150k–200k1.1%†41
$200k or more4.3%†162

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

3,784 households (±318)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Own64%2,414
Rent36%1,370

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

Table view

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

Rent paid

1,264 households (±303)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Under $75028%†357
$750–1,00030%†375
$1,000–1,50018%†225

Home values

2,414 homes (±406)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Under $150k65%1,572
$150k–250k14%†347
$250k–400k19%†463

Age of homes

4,315 homes (±354)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

2010 or later4.6%†197
2000–20094.3%†186
1980–199911%†487

Size of homes

4,315 homes (±354)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Studio0.4%†17
1 bedroom9.7%†417
2 bedrooms28%1,221

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

3,998 workers (±402)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone74%2,939
Carpool14%†555
Public transit2.3%†92
Walk4.6%†182
Bike0.0%0
Work from home5.0%†201
Other0.7%†29

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 B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

3,797 workers (±436)

Robstown, Texas
Texas share

Under 15 min32%1,224
15–29 min43%1,614
30–44 min17%†634

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 Corpus Christi, 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 Nueces County, the county holding most of Robstown's residents.

Nueces County has 8,111 employer establishments, 230 for every 10,000 residents (0.93× the US rate of 248; 1.05× Texas's), with 134,586 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,723. The Census Bureau also counts 31,301 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 8,111; 31,301 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 230; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 134,586
Average annual pay: $53,723; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	909	25.8	1.24×About typical	12,796	$49,577	1,572
Restaurants and other eating places	727	20.6	1.12×About typical	15,873	$21,856	213
Specialty trade contractors	411	11.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	9,174	$69,146	3,152
Offices of physicians	398	11.3	1.74×More than typical	3,015	$92,908	349
Lessors of real estate	335	9.5	0.77×Fewer than typical	1,493	$45,931	2,377
Limited-service restaurants	332	9.4	1.17×About typical	7,586	$20,352	79
Full-service restaurants	316	9	1.17×About typical	7,338	$23,583	95
Legal services	222	6.3	1.17×About typical	1,483	$81,370	296
Building equipment contractors	214	6.1	1.01×About typical	2,669	$60,625	672
Insurance agencies and brokerages	203	5.8	1.31×More than typical	1,118	$61,912	516
Construction of buildings	181	5.1	0.68×Fewer than typical	1,047	$66,774	1,508
Offices of other health practitioners	179	5.1	0.84×About typical	922	$47,462	586

Rank places for an industry Open Nueces County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 352,505 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 $701 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Robstown, Texas: $0.07 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $701
Per resident: $0.07; 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 the Army$701100%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

1KFY2017
14.2KFY2018
439FY2019
6.5KFY2020
6.6KFY2021
526.3KFY2022
381.2KFY2023
283.2KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$701100%

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

Robstown, Texas's figures are part of those of Nueces County, TX ($165.3M 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: Robstown is mostly in Nueces County.

See federal money in Nueces 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.

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

House

Michael CloudR-TX-27 · 100% of residentsWith party 97%Missed 1.5%

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.

Nueces County23100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Corpus Christi, TX13

Other cities and towns in Nueces 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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