Census-designated place · Maverick County, Texas

Rosita, Texas

Rosita is a census-designated place in Maverick County, Texas, part of the Eagle Pass, TX metro area. It has 2,933 residents. Rosita, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 6 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,765 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #877 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on injury deaths (low), drug overdose deaths (low) and natural hazard risk (low). It ranks worst on mammography screening (low), bachelor's degree or higher (low) and hot days (high).

6Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,765 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #877 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 2,933 (2020-2024)
Land area: 8 mi²
Density: 377.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4863350

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 74 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.

Safety53#7,372/15,637
Economy9#14,183/15,631
Housing32#10,189/14,977
Health25#11,724/15,609
Healthcare1#15,535/15,650
Environment71#4,409/15,453
Education4#14,998/15,649
Infrastructure1#15,433/15,650
Community0#15,576/15,651
Leisure & amenities1#15,541/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Injury deaths · low50 /100k
94/100Texas 69 /100kUnited States 87 /100k2019-2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Drug overdose deaths · low7.4 /100k
92/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataMaverick County value
Natural hazard risk · low6.5
89/100Texas 39.62025Federal Emergency Management AgencyMaverick County value
Job growth · high1.7%
86/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMaverick County value
Days with unhealthy air · low0.0%
84/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyMaverick County value
Comfortable days · high30.6%
81/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMaverick County value

Weaknesses

Mammography screening · low19.0%
0/100Texas 42.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low1.8%
1/100Texas 33.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Hot days · high158 days
1/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMaverick County value
Social associations · low2.6 /10k
1/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Food environment index · low4.9
1/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMaverick County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high39.0%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010

Trends

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

PopulationRising
2,792 (2015-2019) → 2,933 (2020-2024)
+5.1%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
4.0% (2015-2019) → 47.0% (2020-2024)
+43 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Child poverty rateImproving
43.2% (2015-2019) → 16.9% (2020-2024)
−26 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
49.4% (2015-2019) → 74.9% (2020-2024)
+26 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Poverty rateImproving
33.5% (2015-2019) → 12.0% (2020-2024)
−21 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
High school diploma or higherImproving
43.8% (2015-2019) → 55.5% (2020-2024)
+12 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, Rosita, Texas improved on 2 of 7 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 5 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.

Improved2

Poverty−21 points33.5% → 12.0%
Broadband+26 points49.4% → 74.9%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 7 measures

Change of every measure of Rosita, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	49.4%2015-2019	74.9%2020-2024	+26 points	Improved	96%
Effective property tax rate	1.16%2015-2019	1.08%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	31%
High school diploma or higher	43.8%2015-2019	55.5%2020-2024	+12 points	Within the margin of error	97%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4132015-2019	0.4402020-2024	+0.027	Within the margin of error	29%
Poverty rate	33.5%2015-2019	12.0%2020-2024	−21 points	Improved	99%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	32.9%2015-2019	39.0%2020-2024	+6.1 points	Within the margin of error	8%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 10944 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 Rosita, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Rosita, 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.

No place that looked like Rosita, Texas five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Rosita, Texas itself moved −4.9 points in standing on average over the same 4 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

2,933 residents (±728)

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

938 households (±191)

Rosita, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k27%†251
$25k–50k27%†253
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

938 households (±191)

Rosita, Texas
Texas share

Own79%743
Rent21%†195

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.

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,289 workers (±561)

Rosita, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone67%†870
Carpool31%†401
Public transit

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 Eagle Pass, 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 Maverick County, the county holding most of Rosita's residents.

Maverick County has 883 employer establishments, 152 for every 10,000 residents (0.61× the US rate of 248; 0.70× Texas's), with 12,727 paid employees at an average annual pay of $32,594. The Census Bureau also counts 6,430 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 883; 6,430 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 152; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 12,727
Average annual pay: $32,594; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	87	15	2.96×More than typical	365	$60,430	637
Ambulatory health care services	77	13.3	0.64×Fewer than typical	1,472	$36,649	161
Restaurants and other eating places	62	10.7	0.58×Fewer than typical	1,332	$17,691	93
Limited-service restaurants	34	5.9	0.73×Fewer than typical	951	$16,395	25
Specialty trade contractors	31	5.3	0.34×Fewer than typical	105	$42,590	867
Automotive repair and maintenance	30	5.2	1.03×About typical	113	$32,327	159
Clothing and accessories stores	26	4.5	1.23×About typical	408	$18,032	65
Offices of physicians	26	4.5	0.69×Fewer than typical	148	$58,628	24
Lessors of real estate	25	4.3	0.35×Fewer than typical	56	$39,179	249
Insurance agencies and brokerages	22	3.8	0.86×About typical	79	$30,608	81
Legal services	21	3.6	0.67×Fewer than typical	155	$71,006	32
Building equipment contractors	19	3.3	0.54×Fewer than typical	64	$46,531	168

Rank places for an industry Open Maverick County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 58,077 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 $2.5M of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Rosita, Texas: $853 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $2.5M; +362% vs FY2025
Per resident: $853; US $1,994
Sole-source: 7.6%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.1%; 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

U.S. Customs and Border Protection$2.3M93%
Department of the Army$165.4K6.6%
Public Buildings Service$19.2K0.8%
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service$2660.0%

Top recipients

GRUNLEY CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.$2.2M89%
SEASIDE ENGINEERING & SURVEYING, LLC$165K6.6%
TIERRA RIGHT OF WAY SERVICES LTD$78.5K3.1%
ENTERPRISE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, INC$17K0.7%
SYN-TECH SYSTEM, INC.$7,0170.3%

Spending by fiscal year

28.8KFY2017
87.1KFY2018
26.2KFY2019
102.3KFY2020
873.3KFY2021
3MFY2022
2.5MFY2023
2.8MFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Nonresidential building construction · 2362$2.2M89%
Architectural, engineering, and related services · 5413$165K6.6%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$78.5K3.1%
Services to buildings and dwellings · 5617$17K0.7%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$7,0170.3%

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

Rosita, Texas's figures are part of those of Maverick County, TX ($153.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 1.6% of that total.

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

See federal money in Maverick 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.

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

Senate

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County

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

Maverick County7100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Eagle Pass, TX6

Other cities and towns in Maverick 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

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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved2

Declined0

Cities and towns like Rosita, Texas five years ago that improved

Who lives here

Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

Getting to work

How people get to work

Jobs and pay

Local businesses

Federal contracts performed here

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

How this is estimated

Representation in Congress

Senate

County

Metro area

Other cities and towns in Maverick County

Similar cities and towns

Data and sources

Improved2

Declined0

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Senate

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

Top industries (NAICS)

How this is estimated

What was bought