City · Uvalde County, Texas

Uvalde, Texas

Uvalde is a city in Uvalde County, Texas, part of the Uvalde, TX metro area. It has 15,417 residents. Uvalde, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 8 out of 100 (very low), ranking #14,473 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #808 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), unemployment rate (low) and public libraries (high). It ranks worst on food environment index (low), grocery stores (low) and hot days (high).

8Very low

Quality-of-life score: #14,473 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #808 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 15,417 (2020-2024)
Land area: 8 mi²
Density: 2,005.8 /mi²
FIPS code: 4874588

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 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.

Safety24#11,882/15,637
Economy11#13,932/15,631
Housing65#5,298/14,977
Health23#12,060/15,609
Healthcare4#15,037/15,650
Environment55#6,900/15,453
Education3#15,133/15,649
Infrastructure11#13,917/15,650
Community16#13,196/15,651
Leisure & amenities7#14,562/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Comfortable days · high32.8%
89/100Texas 30.7%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationUvalde County value
Unemployment rate · low1.4%
88/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Public libraries · high1.2 /10k
81/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library ServicesUvalde County value
Average commute time · low18.7 min
80/100Texas 26.7 minUnited States 26.4 min2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B08013
Drug overdose deaths · low10.7 /100k
77/100Texas 13.4 /100kUnited States 18.4 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimateProvisional dataUvalde County value
Depression · low20.8%
76/100Texas 21.2%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

Food environment index · low4.2
0/100Texas 5.7United States 7.62019 & 2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteUvalde County value
Grocery stores · low0.4 /10k
1/100Texas 1.1 /10kUnited States 1.7 /10k2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsUvalde County value
Hot days · high134 days
2/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationUvalde County value
Reading scores · low2.52
2/100Texas 2.89United States 3.052018University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteUvalde County value
Flu vaccinations · low25.0%
3/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteUvalde County value
High school diploma or higher · low73.0%
3/100Texas 86.0%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003

Trends

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

Child poverty rateWorsening
22.9% (2015-2019) → 36.1% (2020-2024)
+13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
70.2% (2015-2019) → 82.6% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
48.1% (2015-2019) → 38.4% (2020-2024)
−9.7 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Poverty rateWorsening
14.9% (2015-2019) → 23.9% (2020-2024)
+9 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.9× (2015-2019) → 2.7× (2020-2024)
+44%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Median household incomeImproving
$41,713 (2015-2019) → $51,141 (2020-2024)
+23%5 yearsCensus table B19013US $65,712 → $81,604

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, Uvalde, Texas improved on 2 of 14 measures with a comparison and declined on 3. 9 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

Broadband+12 points70.2% → 82.6%
Household income+23%$41,713 → $51,141

Declined3

Poverty+9 points14.9% → 23.9%
Child poverty+13 points22.9% → 36.1%
Price / income+0.8×1.9× → 2.7×

All 14 measures

Change of every measure of Uvalde, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	17.2 min2015-2019	18.7 min2020-2024	+1.6 min	Within the margin of error	31%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.9%2015-2019	16.1%2020-2024	+1.2 points	Within the margin of error	36%
Broadband subscriptions	70.2%2015-2019	82.6%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	71%
Child poverty rate	22.9%2015-2019	36.1%2020-2024	+13 points	Declined	9%
Effective property tax rate	1.71%2015-2019	1.58%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	43%
High school diploma or higher	73.7%2015-2019	73.0%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	26%
Home price to income ratio	1.9×2015-2019	2.7×2020-2024	+0.8×	Declined	30%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4492015-2019	0.4832020-2024	+0.034	Within the margin of error	25%
Median household income	$41,7132015-2019	$51,1412020-2024	+23%	Improved	39%
Poverty rate	14.9%2015-2019	23.9%2020-2024	+9 points	Declined	5%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	28.1%2015-2019	27.0%2020-2024	−1.1 points	Within the margin of error	63%
Rent-burdened households	48.1%2015-2019	38.4%2020-2024	−9.7 points	Within the margin of error	82%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	17.8%2015-2019	18.9%2020-2024	+1.1 points	Within the margin of error	33%

“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 Uvalde, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Uvalde, 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, Uvalde, Texas itself moved −1.3 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

15,417 residents (±26)

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

5,259 households (±348)

Uvalde, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k32%1,661
$25k–50k17%916
$50k–75k22%1,156

Homes

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

Owners and renters

5,259 households (±348)

Uvalde, Texas
Texas share

Own67%3,546
Rent33%1,713

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

6,255 workers (±404)

Uvalde, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone82%5,149
Carpool8.7%†544
Public transit0.0%0

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 Uvalde, 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 Uvalde County, the county holding most of Uvalde's residents.

Uvalde County has 609 employer establishments, 244 for every 10,000 residents (0.98× the US rate of 248; 1.12× Texas's), with 7,455 paid employees at an average annual pay of $41,627. The Census Bureau also counts 2,977 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 609; 2,977 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 244; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 7,455
Average annual pay: $41,627; US $68,342

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

Restaurants and other eating places	46	18.4	1.00×About typical	952	$16,558	29
Ambulatory health care services	42	16.8	0.81×About typical	649	$89,422	71
Specialty trade contractors	36	14.4	0.93×About typical	232	$32,263	375
Religious organizations	27	10.8	1.95×More than typical	149	$20,389	—
Lessors of real estate	25	10	0.81×About typical	83	$42,458	232
Limited-service restaurants	23	9.2	1.15×About typical	612	$16,466	3
Gasoline stations	20	8	2.47×More than typical	188	$22,840	—
Traveler accommodation	20	8	4.44×More than typical	262	$32,527	14
Full-service restaurants	18	7.2	0.94×About typical	290	$16,959	20
Automotive repair and maintenance	16	6.4	1.27×More than typical	124	$48,758	83
Offices of physicians	16	6.4	0.99×About typical	335	$126,158	4
Building equipment contractors	15	6	1.00×About typical	105	$28,381	81

Rank places for an industry Open Uvalde County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 24,946 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: Uvalde is mostly in Uvalde County.

See federal money in Uvalde 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.

Uvalde, 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.

Uvalde County12100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Uvalde, TX15

Other cities and towns in Uvalde 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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Scores by category

Strengths · Weaknesses

Strengths

Weaknesses

Trends

What changed in five years

Improved2

Declined3

Cities and towns like Uvalde, 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

Representation in Congress

Senate

County

Metro area

Other cities and towns in Uvalde County

Similar cities and towns

Data and sources

Improved2

Declined3

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