Metro area · Texas

Killeen-Temple, TX metro area

Killeen-Temple, TX is a metropolitan area of 3 counties in Texas, home to 511,497 residents. Killeen-Temple, TX metro area has a quality-of-life score of 23 out of 100 (low), ranking #709 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Texas it ranks #28 of 67. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), injury deaths (low) and comfortable days (high). It ranks worst on grocery stores (low), public libraries (low) and pharmacies (low).

23Low
Quality-of-life score
#709 of 925 metro and micro areas
Texas
#28 of 67 in TX
Population
511,497 (2025)
Land area
2,819 mi²
Density
181.5 /mi²
CBSA code
28660

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 Killeen-Temple, TX metro area

Scores by category

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

  • Safety34#611/924
  • Economy51#458/925
  • Housing36#596/925
  • Health43#526/925
  • Healthcare18#757/923
  • Environment35#597/917
  • Education57#400/925
  • Infrastructure47#492/925
  • Community3#899/925
  • Leisure & amenities3#894/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Killeen-Temple, 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 Killeen-Temple, TX metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Killeen-Temple, 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 Killeen-Temple, 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. Bell CountyCentral county31402,248
  2. Coryell CountyCentral county3685,592
  3. Lampasas CountyOutlying county4323,657

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. KilleenPrincipal city158,159
  2. TemplePrincipal city89,602

Largest cities and towns

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

  1. Killeen158,159
  2. Temple89,602
  3. Copperas Cove37,947
  4. Harker Heights34,128
  5. Belton24,356
  6. Gatesville16,228
  7. Lampasas7,671
  8. Nolanville6,690
  9. Morgan's Point Resort4,750
  10. Troy2,844
  11. Little River-Academy2,233
  12. Salado2,225
  13. Rogers1,303
  14. Holland1,299
  15. Kempner1,215
  16. Lometa812
  17. Pendleton649
  18. Evant535
  19. Oglesby418
  20. Flat354
  21. South Mountain328
  22. Mound57

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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