City · Live Oak County, Texas

Three Rivers, Texas

Three Rivers is a city in Live Oak County, Texas. It has 1,256 residents. Three Rivers, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 24 out of 100 (low), ranking #11,835 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #419 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on math scores (high), violent crime rate (low) and homicide rate (low). It ranks worst on uninsured residents (under 65) (high), traffic deaths (high) and mental health providers (low).

24Low

Quality-of-life score: #11,835 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #419 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,256 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 858.4 /mi²
FIPS code: 4872872

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.

Safety86#2,132/15,637
Economy12#13,764/15,631
Housing92#1,258/14,977
Health31#10,696/15,609
Healthcare1#15,433/15,650
Environment21#12,180/15,453
Education46#8,487/15,649
Infrastructure4#14,976/15,650
Community11#13,981/15,651
Leisure & amenities51#7,662/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Three Rivers, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Live Oak 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

Math scores · high3.76
100/100Texas 3.15United States 3.032019University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLive Oak County value
Violent crime rate · low70 /100k
94/100Texas 345 /100kUnited States 328 /100k2025Federal Bureau of InvestigationCovers part of the area: some reporting agencies or member counties have no figureLive Oak County value
Homicide rate · low0.0 /100k
94/100Texas 5.1 /100kUnited States 4.8 /100kMay 2025–Apr 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionProvisional dataLive Oak County value
Public EV charging ports · high16.8 /10k
92/100Texas 4.0 /10kUnited States 7.6 /10kOct 2026U.S. Department of EnergyLive Oak County value
Home price to income ratio · low1.7×
92/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077High uncertainty
Restaurants and bars · high12.6 /10k
89/100Texas 7.8 /10kUnited States 9.0 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsLive Oak County value

Weaknesses

Uninsured residents (under 65) · high42.0%
1/100Texas 19.1%United States 9.8%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B27010
Traffic deaths · high67.2 /100k
1/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional dataLive Oak County value
Mental health providers · low17 /100k
1/100Texas 181 /100kUnited States 348 /100k2025University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLive Oak County value
Primary care physicians · low8 /100k
1/100Texas 61 /100kUnited States 76 /100k2020University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLive Oak County value
Access to exercise opportunities · low19.2%
1/100Texas 82.3%United States 84.5%2022 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteLive Oak County value
Distance to an emergency room · high24.6 mi
1/100Texas 5.5 miUnited States 5.5 miJul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesLive Oak County value

Trends

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

PopulationFalling
1,821 (2015-2019) → 1,256 (2020-2024)
−31%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
53.3% (2015-2019) → 22.1% (2020-2024)
−31 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
47.7% (2015-2019) → 75.7% (2020-2024)
+28 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
32.0% (2015-2019) → 20.5% (2020-2024)
−12 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
28.7% (2015-2019) → 17.5% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
High school diploma or higherWorsening
72.4% (2015-2019) → 65.0% (2020-2024)
−7.4 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, Three Rivers, Texas improved on 3 of 11 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 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.

Improved3

Inequality−0.1520.556 → 0.403
Broadband+28 points47.7% → 75.7%
Rent burden−31 points53.3% → 22.1%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 11 measures

Change of every measure of Three Rivers, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	19.2 min2015-2019	23.2 min2020-2024	+4.0 min	Within the margin of error	14%
Broadband subscriptions	47.7%2015-2019	75.7%2020-2024	+28 points	Improved	97%
Effective property tax rate	1.29%2015-2019	1.39%2020-2024	+0.1 points	Within the margin of error	6%
High school diploma or higher	72.4%2015-2019	65.0%2020-2024	−7.4 points	Within the margin of error	3%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5562015-2019	0.4032020-2024	−0.152	Improved	99%
Median household income	$38,1882015-2019	$46,7052020-2024	+22%	Within the margin of error	38%
Poverty rate	22.6%2015-2019	26.2%2020-2024	+3.6 points	Within the margin of error	17%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	32.0%2015-2019	20.5%2020-2024	−12 points	Within the margin of error	95%
Rent-burdened households	53.3%2015-2019	22.1%2020-2024	−31 points	Improved	98%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	37.4%2015-2019	42.0%2020-2024	+4.7 points	Within the margin of error	11%

“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 Three Rivers, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Three Rivers, 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, Three Rivers, Texas itself moved +18.8 points in standing on average over the same 8 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

1,256 residents (±320)

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

629 households (±142)

Three Rivers, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k34%†215
$25k–50k22%†137
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

629 households (±142)

Three Rivers, Texas
Texas share

Own48%†299
Rent52%†330

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

484 workers (±171)

Three Rivers, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone79%†384
Carpool15%†71
Public transit

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 Live Oak County, the county holding most of Three Rivers's residents.

Live Oak County has 259 employer establishments, 219 for every 10,000 residents (0.88× the US rate of 248; 1.00× Texas's), with 2,589 paid employees at an average annual pay of $78,770. The Census Bureau also counts 1,100 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 259; 1,100 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 219; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 2,589
Average annual pay: $78,770; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	28	23.7	1.29×More than typical	279	$21,606	—
Full-service restaurants	15	12.7	1.65×More than typical	106	$20,991	—
Gasoline stations	13	11	3.39×More than typical	251	$32,092	—
Limited-service restaurants	13	11	1.37×More than typical	173	$21,983	—
Religious organizations	10	8.5	1.52×More than typical	31	$17,806	—
Specialty trade contractors	10	8.5	0.55×Fewer than typical	18	$40,444	113
Automotive repair and maintenance	9	7.6	1.51×Too few to compare	23	$55,087	28
Truck transportation	8	6.8	1.34×Too few to compare	183	$92,678	27
Lessors of real estate	7	5.9	0.48×Too few to compare	9	$34,778	80
Management, scientific and technical consulting	6	5.1	0.76×Too few to compare	6	$52,167	23
Traveler accommodation	6	5.1	2.81×Too few to compare	28	$19,857	3
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	5	4.2	1.04×Too few to compare	12	$17,917	24

Rank places for an industry Open Live Oak County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 11,823 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: Three Rivers is mostly in Live Oak County.

See federal money in Live Oak 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.

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

House

Monica De La CruzR-TX-15 · 100% of residentsWith party 99%Missed 5.9%

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.

Live Oak County22100% of residents

Other cities and towns in Live Oak County

Largest first.

George West143,094

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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