Scores by category

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

Safety32#10,667/15,637
Economy61#6,031/15,631
Housing15#12,795/14,977
Health42#9,123/15,609
Healthcare25#11,811/15,650
Environment15#13,144/15,453
Education25#11,717/15,649
Infrastructure23#12,096/15,650
Community15#13,254/15,651
Leisure & amenities88#1,898/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Poverty rate · low0.6%
99/100Texas 13.4%United States 12.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B17001High uncertainty
Restaurants and bars · high19.4 /10k
98/100Texas 7.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsCalhoun County value
Unemployment rate · low0.0%
98/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025
Math scores · high3.54
98/100Texas 3.15United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCalhoun County value
Child care cost burden · low19.2%
96/100Texas 24.5%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCalhoun County value
Comfortable days · high35.4%
95/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationCalhoun County value

Weaknesses

Job growth · low-9.8%
0/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataCalhoun County value
Bachelor's degree or higher · low3.6%
1/100Texas 33.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003High uncertainty
Food environment index · low5.3
2/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCalhoun County value
Mental health providers · low30 /100k
2/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCalhoun County value
Flu vaccinations · low24.0%
2/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCalhoun County value
Preventable hospital stays · high4,676 /100k
3/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteCalhoun County value

Trends

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

Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
55.2% (2015-2019) → 89.1% (2020-2024)
+34 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Improving
30.2% (2015-2019) → 0.8% (2020-2024)
−29 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Child poverty rateImproving
26.0% (2015-2019) → 0.0% (2020-2024)
−26 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Poverty rateImproving
25.3% (2015-2019) → 0.6% (2020-2024)
−25 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
New homes permittedWorsening
10.6 /1k (2021) → 0.0 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−100%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
High school diploma or higherImproving
66.0% (2015-2019) → 85.4% (2020-2024)
+19 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, Seadrift, Texas improved on 3 of 5 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 2 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

High school++19 points66.0% → 85.4%
Inequality−0.1030.484 → 0.381
Rent / income−6 points51.0% → 45.0%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 5 measures

Change of every measure of Seadrift, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Broadband subscriptions	67.8%2015-2019	74.4%2020-2024	+6.6 points	Within the margin of error	41%
High school diploma or higher	66.0%2015-2019	85.4%2020-2024	+19 points	Improved	99%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4842015-2019	0.3812020-2024	−0.103	Improved	96%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	51.0%2015-2019	45.0%2020-2024	−6 points	Improved	86%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15075 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 Seadrift, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Seadrift, 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 Seadrift, Texas five years ago has more measures that improved than declined, with a higher standing among its peers today.

For comparison, Seadrift, Texas itself moved +18.8 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

1,239 residents (±487)

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 women (−11.3 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

1,239 residents (±487)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

White51%†630
Black0.0%0
Hispanic or Latino37%†455

Education

942 residents (±304)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

No high school diploma15%†138
High school or GED46%†430
Some college19%†

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

625 households (±241)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k7.4%†46
$25k–50k49%†309
$50k–75k9.6%†60
$75k–100k11%†70
$100k–150k3.0%†19
$150k–200k13%†83
$200k or more6.1%†38

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Under $25k (−25.7 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 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

625 households (±241)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Own74%†461
Rent26%†164

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 B25003View table on data.census.gov

Rent paid

156 households (±189)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Under $7500.0%0
$750–1,00011%†17
$1,000–1,50089%†139

Home values

461 homes (±165)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Under $150k22%†101
$150k–250k41%†188
$250k–400k15%†71

Age of homes

801 homes (±241)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

2010 or later13%†101
2000–200920%†158
1980–199919%†150

Size of homes

801 homes (±241)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Studio0.0%0
1 bedroom7.0%†56
2 bedrooms58%†462

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

638 workers (±272)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone69%†441
Carpool2.5%†16
Public transit0.0%0
Walk25%†160
Bike0.0%0
Work from home3.3%†21
Other0.0%0

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Drive alone (−23.1 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 B08301View table on data.census.gov

Time to get to work

617 workers (±274)

Seadrift, Texas
Texas share

Under 15 min52%†321
15–29 min30%†188
30–44 min12%†74

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 Port Lavaca, 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 Calhoun County, the county holding most of Seadrift's residents.

Calhoun County has 451 employer establishments, 229 for every 10,000 residents (0.92× the US rate of 248; 1.05× Texas's), with 9,399 paid employees at an average annual pay of $80,148. The Census Bureau also counts 1,853 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 451; 1,853 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 229; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 9,399
Average annual pay: $80,148; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	46	23.3	1.27×More than typical	542	$18,107	16
Full-service restaurants	28	14.2	1.85×More than typical	232	$20,483	8
Specialty trade contractors	27	13.7	0.88×About typical	482	$78,332	253
Religious organizations	19	9.6	1.74×More than typical	86	$17,105	—
Ambulatory health care services	18	9.1	0.44×Fewer than typical	160	$49,075	32
Building equipment contractors	18	9.1	1.52×More than typical	265	$78,789	57
Traveler accommodation	18	9.1	5.05×More than typical	111	$20,072	5
Lessors of real estate	17	8.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	56	$16,946	119
Limited-service restaurants	14	7.1	0.88×About typical	272	$17,636	8
Architectural, engineering and related services	13	6.6	1.89×More than typical	371	$84,318	11
Gasoline stations	13	6.6	2.03×More than typical	169	$29,657	—
Banks and credit unions	11	5.6	1.73×More than typical	105	$55,762	—

Rank places for an industry Open Calhoun County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 19,731 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 $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Seadrift, Texas: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

2KFY2017
-1.6KFY2018
88.6KFY2023
-2KFY2024

What was bought

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

Seadrift, Texas's figures are part of those of Calhoun County, TX ($13.9M 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: Seadrift is mostly in Calhoun County.

See federal money in Calhoun 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.

Seadrift, 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.

Calhoun County33100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Port Lavaca, TX33

Other cities and towns in Calhoun 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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