City · Baylor County, Texas

Seymour, Texas

Seymour is a city in Baylor County, Texas. It has 2,623 residents. Seymour, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #10,644 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #292 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on violent crime rate (low), primary care physicians (high) and time spent in the emergency room (low). It ranks worst on pharmacies (low), uninsured residents (under 65) (high) and traffic deaths (high).

32Low

Quality-of-life score: #10,644 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #292 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 2,623 (2020-2024)
Land area: 3 mi²
Density: 897.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 4866968

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 71 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.

Safety82#2,747/15,637
Economy7#14,543/15,631
Housing44#8,322/14,977
Health19#12,717/15,609
Healthcare20#12,501/15,650
Environment53#7,340/15,453
Education33#10,522/15,649
Infrastructure10#14,037/15,650
Community65#5,452/15,651
Leisure & amenities76#3,821/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Violent crime rate · low0 /100k
100/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureBaylor County value
Primary care physicians · high231 /100k
100/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2022University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteBaylor County value
Time spent in the emergency room · low72 min
100/100Texas 149 minUnited States 170 minOct 2024–Sep 2025Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesBaylor County value
Drug overdose deaths · low0.0 /100k
99/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100k2024Centers for Disease Control and PreventionBaylor County value
Students per teacher · low10.6×
96/100Texas 15.0×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsBaylor County value
Property crime rate · low326 /100k
96/100Texas 1,786 /100kUnited States 1,535 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureBaylor County value

Weaknesses

Pharmacies · low0.0 /10k
1/100Texas 1.5 /10kUnited States 1.8 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBaylor County value
Uninsured residents (under 65) · high28.6%
2/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Traffic deaths · high40.4 /100k
3/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataBaylor County value
Distance to an airport · high137 mi
3/100Texas 33 miUnited States 33 mi2025Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauBaylor County value
Public EV charging ports · low0.0 /10k
3/100Texas 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyBaylor County value
Gyms and fitness centers · low0.0 /10k
4/100Texas 1.2 /10kUnited States 1.3 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBaylor County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
2,817 (2015-2019) → 2,623 (2020-2024)
−6.9%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Child poverty rateWorsening
6.2% (2015-2019) → 45.5% (2020-2024)
+39 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Average commute timeWorsening
8.5 min (2015-2019) → 16.4 min (2020-2024)
+93%5 yearsCensus table B08013US 26.9 min → 26.4 min
Poverty rateWorsening
13.2% (2015-2019) → 28.2% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Uninsured residents (under 65)Worsening
15.9% (2015-2019) → 28.7% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B27010US 10.8% → 9.8%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 2.3× (2020-2024)
+47%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×

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, Seymour, Texas improved on 0 of 13 measures with a comparison and declined on 5. 8 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.

Declined5

Uninsured+13 points15.9% → 28.7%
Poverty+15 points13.2% → 28.2%
Commute+7.9 min8.5 min → 16.4 min
Inequality+0.0960.403 → 0.500
Price / income+0.7×1.6× → 2.3×

All 13 measures

Change of every measure of Seymour, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	8.5 min2015-2019	16.4 min2020-2024	+7.9 min	Declined	4%
Bachelor's degree or higher	17.2%2015-2019	19.4%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Broadband subscriptions	76.2%2015-2019	82.9%2020-2024	+6.7 points	Within the margin of error	42%
Effective property tax rate	1.72%2015-2019	1.13%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	94%
High school diploma or higher	85.0%2015-2019	84.0%2020-2024	−1 points	Within the margin of error	23%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	2.3×2020-2024	+0.7×	Declined	33%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4032015-2019	0.5002020-2024	+0.096	Declined	5%
Median household income	$39,0062015-2019	$40,2122020-2024	+3.1%	Within the margin of error	10%
Poverty rate	13.2%2015-2019	28.2%2020-2024	+15 points	Declined	2%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	25.0%2015-2019	28.6%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	29%
Rent-burdened households	36.5%2015-2019	46.0%2020-2024	+9.5 points	Within the margin of error	25%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	15.9%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+13 points	Declined	2%

“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 Seymour, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Seymour, 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, Seymour, Texas itself moved −13.8 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

2,623 residents (±190)

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

1,170 households (±123)

Seymour, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k30%†348
$25k–50k30%347
$50k–75k16%†184

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,170 households (±123)

Seymour, Texas
Texas share

Own63%742
Rent37%428

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

1,017 workers (±169)

Seymour, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone82%830
Carpool13%†131
Public transit0.0%0

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 Baylor County, the county holding most of Seymour's residents.

Baylor County has 105 employer establishments, 302 for every 10,000 residents (1.21× the US rate of 248; 1.38× Texas's), with 778 paid employees at an average annual pay of $35,422. The Census Bureau also counts 304 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 105; 304 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 302; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 778
Average annual pay: $35,422; US $68,342

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

Truck transportation	9	25.8	5.11×Too few to compare	21	$48,571	7
Restaurants and other eating places	8	23	1.25×Too few to compare	65	$14,800	—
Ambulatory health care services	6	17.2	0.83×Too few to compare	28	$49,036	14
Specialty trade contractors	6	17.2	1.11×Too few to compare	15	$45,933	25
Building equipment contractors	5	14.4	2.39×Too few to compare	15	$45,800	5
Full-service restaurants	5	14.4	1.87×Too few to compare	38	$12,395	—
Insurance agencies and brokerages	5	14.4	3.27×Too few to compare	17	$41,706	10
Religious organizations	5	14.4	2.59×Too few to compare	11	$34,182	—
Automotive repair and maintenance	4	11.5	2.28×Too few to compare	7	$44,286	7
Electrical contractors and wiring installation	4	11.5	4.64×Too few to compare	10	$33,000	—
Gasoline stations	4	11.5	3.54×Too few to compare	59	$17,949	—
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	3	8.6	2.12×Too few to compare	4	$26,500	10

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 3,482 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

No federal contract obligations recorded here in FY2026.

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

See federal money in Baylor 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.

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

House

Ronny JacksonR-TX-13 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 2.7%

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.

Baylor County49100% of residents

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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