Metro area · Texas

Corpus Christi, TX metro area

Corpus Christi, TX is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Texas, home to 451,191 residents. Corpus Christi, TX metro area has a quality-of-life score of 13 out of 100 (very low), ranking #801 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Texas it ranks #40 of 67. It ranks best on comfortable days (high), access to exercise opportunities (high) and depression (low). It ranks worst on hot days (high), property crime rate (high) and violent crime rate (high).

13Very low
Quality-of-life score
#801 of 925 metro and micro areas
Texas
#40 of 67 in TX
Population
451,191 (2025)
Land area
1,785 mi²
Density
252.8 /mi²
CBSA code
18580

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 68 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Corpus Christi, TX metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety15#782/924
  • Economy39#566/925
  • Housing28#664/925
  • Health36#588/925
  • Healthcare17#766/923
  • Environment5#871/917
  • Education30#646/925
  • Infrastructure32#632/925
  • Community25#698/925
  • Leisure & amenities37#582/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Corpus Christi, TX metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Corpus Christi, TX metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Corpus Christi, TX metro area 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.

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).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Corpus Christi, TX

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Nueces CountyCentral county23352,992
  2. San Patricio CountyCentral county1172,053
  3. Aransas CountyOutlying county2226,146

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Corpus ChristiPrincipal city317,419

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Corpus Christi317,419
  2. Portland20,543
  3. Rockport10,683
  4. Robstown10,236
  5. Ingleside9,997
  6. Aransas Pass8,972
  7. Sinton5,584
  8. Mathis4,308
  9. Port Aransas3,268
  10. Bishop3,103
  11. Taft2,871
  12. Odem2,102
  13. Gregory2,003
  14. Taft Southwest1,635
  15. Lamar1,202
  16. Lakeshore Gardens-Hidden Acres970
  17. Fulton818
  18. St. Paul769
  19. Ingleside on the Bay745
  20. North San Pedro721
  21. Spring Gardens622
  22. Banquete619
  23. Del Sol543
  24. Sandy Hollow-Escondidas539

Other metro and micro areas in Texas

Areas based in Texas, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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