Metro area · Texas

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro area

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX is a metropolitan area of 8 counties in Texas, home to 2,813,140 residents. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro area has a quality-of-life score of 32 out of 100 (low), ranking #629 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Texas it ranks #21 of 67. It ranks best on distance to an airport (low), comfortable days (high) and adult smoking (low). It ranks worst on property crime rate (high), hot days (high) and high ozone days (high).

32Low
Quality-of-life score
#629 of 925 metro and micro areas
Texas
#21 of 67 in TX
Population
2,813,140 (2025)
Land area
7,313 mi²
Density
384.7 /mi²
CBSA code
41700

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 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro area

Scores by category

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

  • Safety23#712/924
  • Economy65#323/925
  • Housing22#725/925
  • Health71#268/925
  • Healthcare32#625/923
  • Environment4#877/917
  • Education58#386/925
  • Infrastructure66#315/925
  • Community22#726/925
  • Leisure & amenities25#697/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where San Antonio-New Braunfels, 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 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of San Antonio-New Braunfels, 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 San Antonio-New Braunfels, 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. Bexar CountyCentral county332,160,088
  2. Guadalupe CountyCentral county49201,111
  3. Comal CountyOutlying county76209,166
  4. Medina CountyOutlying county2456,881
  5. Wilson CountyOutlying county4856,139
  6. Atascosa CountyOutlying county1153,590
  7. Kendall CountyOutlying county8453,289
  8. Bandera CountyOutlying county4322,876

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. New BraunfelsPrincipal city104,643
  2. San AntonioPrincipal city1,479,835

Largest cities and towns

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

  1. San Antonio1,479,835
  2. New Braunfels104,643
  3. Schertz44,050
  4. Timberwood Park35,413
  5. Cibolo35,109
  6. Canyon Lake33,883
  7. Seguin33,754
  8. Converse29,607
  9. Boerne20,518
  10. Universal City20,189
  11. Live Oak15,984
  12. Selma11,503
  13. Leon Valley11,446
  14. Pleasanton11,011
  15. Fair Oaks Ranch10,728
  16. Scenic Oaks10,569
  17. Helotes9,630
  18. Hondo8,713
  19. Kirby8,117
  20. Floresville8,007
  21. Alamo Heights7,492
  22. Lackland AFB6,785
  23. Bulverde6,486
  24. Lakehills6,130

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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