Town · Tarrant County, Texas

Westlake, Texas

Westlake is a town in Tarrant County, Texas, part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area. It has 1,670 residents. Westlake, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 49 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #8,056 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Texas it ranks #139 of 1,016 cities and towns. It ranks best on median household income (high), food insecurity (low) and broadband subscriptions (high). It ranks worst on high ozone days (high), home price to income ratio (high) and days with unhealthy air (high).

49Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #8,056 of 15,651 cities and towns
Texas: #139 of 1,016 in TX
Population: 1,670 (2020-2024)
Land area: 7 mi²
Density: 242.7 /mi²
FIPS code: 4877620

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 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.

Safety30#10,935/15,637
Economy94#948/15,631
Housing31#10,342/14,977
Health81#2,909/15,609
Healthcare57#6,679/15,650
Environment5#14,593/15,453
Education51#7,670/15,649
Infrastructure91#1,356/15,650
Community20#12,490/15,651
Leisure & amenities26#11,529/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

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

Median household income · high$250,001
100/100Texas $79,723United States $81,6042020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B19013At least this value: the publisher's top bracket is open-ended
Food insecurity · low6.6%
97/100Texas 19.4%United States 15.6%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate
Broadband subscriptions · high98.9%
97/100Texas 91.3%United States 91.0%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B28002
Adult smoking · low7.2%
96/100Texas 15.3%United States 16.1%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Poor or fair health · low10.9%
96/100Texas 23.2%United States 19.9%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteModel-based estimate
Lack of reliable transportation · low4.8%
96/100Texas 10.5%United States 8.3%2022Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Weaknesses

High ozone days · high20 days
3/100Texas 7 daysUnited States 7 days2022Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTarrant County value
Home price to income ratio · high8.0×
3/100Texas 3.6×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Days with unhealthy air · high8.2%
5/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTarrant County value
Median Air Quality Index · high56
6/1002025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyTarrant County value
Hot days · high104 days
8/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationTarrant County value
High school diploma or higher · low96.0%
10/100Texas 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.

PopulationRising
983 (2015-2019) → 1,670 (2020-2024)
+70%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsImproving
45.7% (2015-2019) → 30.0% (2020-2024)
−16 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
69.1% (2015-2019) → 79.6% (2020-2024)
+10 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Rent as share of incomeImproving
29.5% (2015-2019) → 20.0% (2020-2024)
−9.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B25071US 29.8% → 30.6%
Child poverty rateImproving
7.2% (2015-2019) → 1.0% (2020-2024)
−6.2 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
New homes permittedWorsening
27.7 /1k (2021) → 19.8 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
−29%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k

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, Westlake, Texas improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 7 moved within the margin of error and 1 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.

Improved1

Household income+10%$227,083 → $250,001

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Westlake, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.4 min2015-2019	25.8 min2020-2024	−5.6 min	Within the margin of error	92%
Bachelor's degree or higher	69.1%2015-2019	79.6%2020-2024	+10 points	Within the margin of error	91%
Broadband subscriptions	96.2%2015-2019	98.9%2020-2024	+2.7 points	Within the margin of error	19%
Effective property tax rate	0.90%2015-2019	1.43%2020-2024	+0.5 points	Within the margin of error	0%
High school diploma or higher	98.7%2015-2019	96.0%2020-2024	−2.7 points	Within the margin of error	12%
Home price to income ratio	7.7×2015-2019	8.0×2020-2024	+0.3×	Little change	59%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.5692015-2019	0.4892020-2024	−0.080	Within the margin of error	92%
Median household income	$227,0832015-2019	$250,0012020-2024	+10%	Improved	17%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“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 Westlake, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Westlake, 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, Westlake, Texas itself moved −2.2 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

1,670 residents (±457)

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

567 households (±133)

Westlake, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k8.8%†50
$25k–50k2.8%†16
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

567 households (±133)

Westlake, Texas
Texas share

Own96%547
Rent3.5%†20

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Rent (−10.8 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

622 workers (±165)

Westlake, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone55%†345
Carpool2.9%†18
Public transit0.0%

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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, 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 Tarrant County, the county holding most of Westlake's residents.

Tarrant County has 47,656 employer establishments, 217 for every 10,000 residents (0.87× the US rate of 248; 0.99× Texas's), with 882,289 paid employees at an average annual pay of $63,154. The Census Bureau also counts 240,907 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 47,656; 240,907 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 217; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 882,289
Average annual pay: $63,154; US $68,342

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

Ambulatory health care services	4,977	22.7	1.09×About typical	57,204	$69,331	9,409
Restaurants and other eating places	4,055	18.5	1.01×About typical	89,706	$22,424	1,346
Specialty trade contractors	2,600	11.8	0.77×Fewer than typical	37,779	$69,962	16,336
Lessors of real estate	2,239	10.2	0.83×About typical	10,452	$67,694	17,611
Limited-service restaurants	1,965	9	1.12×About typical	44,433	$19,518	440
Offices of physicians	1,857	8.5	1.31×More than typical	18,645	$114,289	1,745
Full-service restaurants	1,423	6.5	0.84×About typical	37,862	$26,496	605
Management, scientific and technical consulting	1,341	6.1	0.91×About typical	8,973	$76,251	7,354
Offices of other health practitioners	1,158	5.3	0.87×About typical	6,882	$45,634	3,613
Construction of buildings	1,101	5	0.66×Fewer than typical	9,090	$94,871	6,618
Building equipment contractors	1,100	5	0.83×About typical	17,179	$74,366	3,311
Automotive repair and maintenance	1,073	4.9	0.97×About typical	7,786	$48,902	3,972

Rank places for an industry Open Tarrant County

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 2,194,974 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 $121.4K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Westlake, Texas: $72.69 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $121.4K; −97% vs FY2025
Per resident: $72.69; US $1,994
Sole-source: 0.0%; US 30%
Single offer: 3.7%; 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

Defense Logistics Agency$100.3K83%
Department of the Army$14.7K12%
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$9,6618.0%

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

71.8KFY2017
90KFY2018
100.3KFY2019
72.2KFY2020
37.9KFY2021
17.6KFY2022
22KFY2023
236.7KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Electrical equipment manufacturing · 3353$69.8K57%
Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing · 3344$29.8K25%
Agriculture, construction, and mining machinery manufacturing · 3331$19.2K16%
Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment repair and maintenance · 8113$5,1714.3%
Other electrical equipment and component manufacturing · 3359$4230.3%
Hardware manufacturing · 3325

Largest awards whose ZIP code lies mostly in Westlake, Texas

SCALE TI AM FOR CRITICAL AIRFRAME STRUCTURES$8.4M
GKN AEROSPACE GTC, LLC· Tarrant County, TX· Research & development· Sep 18, 2025 – Feb 25, 2026· FA239425CB017

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

Westlake, Texas's figures are part of those of Tarrant County, TX and Denton County, TX ($13.9B 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: Westlake is mostly in Tarrant County.

See federal money in Tarrant 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.

Westlake, Texas is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

County

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

Tarrant County46100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX52

Other cities and towns in Tarrant 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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