Stonewall County, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 50 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #1,587 of 3,143 US counties. Within Texas it ranks #45 of 254 counties. It ranks best on home price to income ratio (low), pharmacies (high) and new business applications (high). It ranks worst on flu vaccinations (low), grocery stores (low) and hot days (high).
50Moderate
Quality-of-life score
#1,587 of 3,143 counties
Texas
#45 of 254 in TX
Population
1,186 (2025)
Land area
916 mi²
Density
1.3 /mi²
FIPS code
48433
Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.
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.
Counties like Stonewall County, Texas five years ago that improved
The places whose measures looked most like those of Stonewall County, 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.
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.
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.
Public money & outcomes
Federal money per resident by fiscal year next to how the place changed, and, when its money jumped, how it compares with similar counties. A comparison, not cause and effect.
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.
Cities and towns in Stonewall County
Places whose residents live mostly in Stonewall County, largest first.
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Over about five years, Stonewall County, Texas improved on 7 of 21 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 13 moved within the margin of error and 1 barely changed.
Earlier period
Latest period
Lower standingHigher standing
Position is the place's standing among counties: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts. Periods differ by measure (most compare 2015-2019 with 2020-2024); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.
Improved7
New businesses+424%6.4 /1k → 33.7 /1k
New business applications
6.4 /1k → 33.7 /1k2020 → 2025
+424%No margin of error published
Standing among counties: 32 → 99 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 99% of counties
Weekly wage+46%$823 → $1,204
Average weekly wage
$823 → $1,2042020 → 2025
+46%No margin of error published
Standing among counties: 48 → 80 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 99% of counties
Broadband+17 points77.2% → 94.7%
Broadband subscriptions
77.2% → 94.7%2015-2019 → 2020-2024
+17 pointsBeyond the margin of error (±7.7 points)
Standing among counties: 54 → 97 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 89% of counties
Real income+39%$75,825 → $105,771
Income adjusted for local prices
$75,825 → $105,7712019 → 2024
+39%No margin of error published
Standing among counties: 97 → 97 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 84% of counties
Students / teacher−1.5×11.0× → 9.5×
Students per teacher
11.0× → 9.5×2019 → 2024
−1.5×No margin of error published
Standing among counties: 89 → 95 (0 lowest, 100 highest)
More favourable than 78% of counties
Declined0
No measure declined by more than its margin of error.
All 21 measures
Change of every measure of Stonewall County, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure
Before
After
Change
Reading
Favourable vs peers
Average commute time
16.9 min2015-2019
15.3 min2020-2024
−1.6 min
Within the margin of error
85%
Average weekly wage
$8232020
$1,2042025
+46%
Improved
99%
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.8%2015-2019
16.9%2020-2024
+2.1 points
Within the margin of error
38%
Broadband subscriptions
77.2%2015-2019
94.7%2020-2024
+17 points
Improved
89%
Child poverty rate
20.2%2019
23.2%2024
+3 points
Within the margin of error
4%
Distance to an airport
98 mi2020
98 mi2025
0 mi
Little change
50%
Effective property tax rate
1.95%2015-2019
1.46%2020-2024
−0.5 points
Within the margin of error
98%
High school diploma or higher
81.3%2015-2019
90.3%2020-2024
+9.1 points
Within the margin of error
98%
Income adjusted for local prices
$75,8252019
$105,7712024
+39%
Improved
84%
Income inequality (Gini index)
0.4412015-2019
0.5792020-2024
+0.138
Within the margin of error
0%
Median household income
$48,2672019
$61,7992024
+28%
Improved
66%
New business applications
6.4 /1k2020
33.7 /1k2025
+424%
Improved
100%
Pharmacies
8.0 /10k2020
8.4 /10k2025
+4.9%
Within the margin of error
84%
Poverty rate
15.1%2019
16.5%2024
+1.4 points
Within the margin of error
13%
Public libraries
7.5 /10k2019
8.2 /10k2024
+9.2%
Within the margin of error
89%
Public transit commuters
0.0%2015-2019
0.0%2020-2024
0 points
Within the margin of error
73%
Restaurants and bars
24.1 /10k2020
16.9 /10k2025
−30%
Within the margin of error
8%
Students per teacher
11.0×2019
9.5×2024
−1.5×
Improved
78%
Traffic deaths
43.7 /100k2015-2019
32.8 /100k2020-2024
−25%
Within the margin of error
83%
Unemployment rate
4.6%2020
2.2%2025
−2.4 points
Improved
45%
Uninsured residents (under 65)
19.5%2019
18.5%2024
−1 points
Within the margin of error
49%
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 3114 counties that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Sources: Regional Economic Accounts; Local Area Unemployment Statistics; Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Small Area Health Insurance Estimates; Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; Public Libraries Survey; Common Core of Data; Fatality Analysis Reporting System; Distance to airports and intercity rail. 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 3144 counties 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.
For comparison, Stonewall County, Texas itself moved +5.2 points in standing on average over the same 25 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.
Household income
513 households (±70)
Stonewall County, Texas
Texas share
Under $25k14%†74
Under $25k
14%±8.6 points
74 households±45 (90% margin of error)
15%in Texas
15%in United States
−14.0 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$25k–50k29%†148
$25k–50k
29%±9.1 points
148 households±51 (90% margin of error)
17%in Texas
17%in United States
+8.5 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$50k–75k16%†80
$50k–75k
16%±5.8 points
80 households±32 (90% margin of error)
16%in Texas
16%in United States
−3.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$75k–100k8.6%†44
$75k–100k
8.6%±5.7 points
44 households±30 (90% margin of error)
13%in Texas
13%in United States
−6.8 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$100k–150k23%†118
$100k–150k
23%±11.2 points
118 households±60 (90% margin of error)
17%in Texas
18%in United States
+15.6 pointssince 2015–2019
Wide margin of error: read with care
$150k–200k5.8%†30
$150k–200k
5.8%±5.8 points
30 households±30 (90% margin of error)
9.5%in Texas
9.6%in United States
−0.7 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
$200k or more3.7%†19
$200k or more
3.7%±2.9 points
19 households±15 (90% margin of error)
12%in Texas
13%in United States
+1.1 pointssince 2015–2019, within the margin of error
Wide margin of error: read with care
Biggest shift since 2015–2019: $100k–150k (+15.6 points).
† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.
Stonewall County has 40 employer establishments, 332 for every 10,000 residents (1.34× the US rate of 248; 1.52× Texas's), with 370 paid employees at an average annual pay of $42,986. The Census Bureau also counts 145 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.
Establishments
40
145 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
332
US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees
370
Average annual pay
$42,986
US $68,342
Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Stonewall County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation
County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)
Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 1,206 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.
How Stonewall County, Texas compares: the federal money it received per resident, and how jobs, income, housing and other outcomes moved, each next to the United States.
Money per resident
By federal fiscal year (October to September, named by the year it ends), obligations per resident. A year with no record counts as $0.
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
partial year
Contracts and grantsUS dollars per residentTable view
Money per resident, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
FY2021
$1,855
$5,748
FY2022
$3,794
$5,221
FY2023
$4,883
$5,364
FY2024
$6,338
$5,501
FY2025
$169
$5,732
FY2026
$2,524 (partial year)
$5,446
Transportation grantsUS dollars per residentTable view
Money per resident, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
FY2021
$986
$298
FY2022
$3,187
$357
FY2023
$4,456
$301
FY2024
$5,973
$319
FY2025
-$368
$360
FY2026
$2,530
Housing assistanceUS dollars per residentTable view
Money per resident, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
FY2021
$521
$239
FY2022
$589
$185
FY2023
$412
$229
FY2024
$350
$229
FY2025
$521
$249
FY2026
-$22.75
HHS grantsUS dollars per residentTable view
Money per resident, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
FY2021
$122
$2,304
FY2022
$0
$2,197
FY2023
$0
$2,274
FY2024
$0
$2,267
FY2025
$0
$2,397
FY2026
$0
SBA lending volumeUS dollars per residentTable view
Money per resident, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
FY2021
$1,044
$1,186
FY2022
$0
$465
FY2023
-$122
$76.52
FY2024
$0
$120
FY2025
$0
$148
FY2026
$0
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)
How outcomes moved
Calendar years. Charts share the same years as the money above. Levels are shown as percent change since 2016; rates are shown as the rate itself.
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
Years with money loaded
Job growthpercentTable view
Job growth, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
1.5%
2.0%
2015
When its money jumped
A county-year with at least 10,000 residents whose money per resident is at least twice its earlier average counts as a jump. Each is compared with up to five similar counties in the same region whose money did not jump.
Counties under 10,000 residents are not assessed: their money per resident swings too much from year to year.
Sources: Regional Economic Accounts, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, Business Formation Statistics, Building Permits Survey, Cartographic Boundary Files, Gazetteer and metro delineations, Population Estimates Program, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission), Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System), Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordability. JSON · /api/v1/outcomes/places/48433
Average weekly wage, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
+0.1%
−4.2%
2015
−4.9%
−1.3%
2016
0.0%
0.0%
2017
+11.1%
+3.3%
2018
+12.0%
+6.8%
2019
+18.2%
+10.5%
2020
+23.0%
+19.4%
2021
+26.6%
+26.1%
2022
+52.3%
+30.6%
2023
+70.4%
+35.0%
2024
+77.9%
+41.0%
2025
+80.0%
+46.8%
Unemployment ratepercentTable view
Unemployment rate, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
3.9%
6.2%
2015
4.4%
5.3%
2016
4.1%
4.9%
2017
3.1%
4.4%
2018
3.1%
3.9%
2019
2.6%
3.7%
2020
4.6%
8.1%
2021
3.7%
5.4%
2022
2.4%
3.7%
2023
2.2%
3.6%
2024
2.2%
4.0%
2025
2.2%
4.3%
Personal income per capitaChange since 2016, %Table view
Personal income per capita, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
+3.3%
−5.5%
2015
+3.3%
−1.9%
2016
0.0%
0.0%
2017
+21.4%
+4.1%
2018
+34.8%
+8.9%
2019
+35.1%
+13.5%
2020
+46.0%
+20.8%
2021
+75.0%
+32.1%
2022
+88.6%
+35.4%
2023
+94.2%
+42.9%
2024
+84.2%
+49.5%
Median household incomeChange since 2016, %Table view
Median household income, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
−3.3%
−6.9%
2015
+3.9%
−3.2%
2016
0.0%
0.0%
2017
−1.2%
+4.7%
2018
+6.1%
+7.5%
2019
+9.1%
+14.0%
2020
+35.2%
+16.9%
2021
+12.6%
+21.0%
2022
+20.2%
+29.7%
2023
+27.6%
+34.9%
2024
+39.7%
+41.6%
Poverty ratepercentTable view
Poverty rate, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
15.5%
15.5%
2015
14.5%
14.7%
2016
15.6%
14.0%
2017
15.3%
13.4%
2018
14.6%
13.1%
2019
15.1%
12.3%
2020
14.3%
11.9%
2021
15.5%
12.8%
2022
15.8%
12.6%
2023
15.9%
12.5%
2024
16.5%
12.1%
Typical home valueChange since 2016, %Table view
Typical home value, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
—
−10.8% (Dec 2014)
2015
—
−5.2% (Dec 2015)
2016
—
0.0% (Dec 2016)
2017
—
+6.4% (Dec 2017)
2018
—
+12.6% (Dec 2018)
2019
—
+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020
—
+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021
—
+49.8% (Dec 2021)
2022
— (Dec 2022)
+64.7% (Dec 2022)
2023
— (Dec 2023)
+69.0% (Dec 2023)
2024
— (Dec 2024)
+73.4% (Dec 2024)
2025
— (Dec 2025)
+73.7% (Dec 2025)
Uninsured residents (under 65)percentTable view
Uninsured residents (under 65), Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
23.1%
13.5%
2015
20.6%
10.9%
2016
18.4%
10.0%
2017
22.3%
10.2%
2018
19.8%
10.4%
2019
19.5%
10.8%
2020
22.7%
10.4%
2021
23.1%
10.2%
2022
16.4%
9.5%
2023
18.0%
9.5%
2024
18.5%
9.8%
New business applicationsper 1,000 peopleTable view
New business applications, Stonewall County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years
Stonewall County, Texas
United States
2014
7.9/1k
8.5/1k
2015
19.3/1k
8.7/1k
2016
10.0/1k
9.1/1k
2017
13.8/1k
9.8/1k
2018
2.2/1k
10.7/1k
2019
1.5/1k
10.6/1k
2020
6.4/1k
13.1/1k
2021
8.2/1k
16.2/1k
2022
0.0/1k
15.1/1k
2023
5.8/1k
16.2/1k
2024
8.2/1k
15.4/1k
2025
33.7/1k
16.6/1k
Calendar years
In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $15.7M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Stonewall County, Texas: $13,237 per resident (US $12,955).
Assistance · FY2026
$15.7M
+1.3% vs FY2025
Per resident
$13,237
US $12,955
Loan face value
$0
lent or guaranteed
To individuals
25%
counted, never named
Top programs
96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$6.5M41%
Organizations only: awards to individuals and county aggregate records count in the totals but are never listed. Grants to state governments recorded at the agency's own address are counted statewide, not in the capital's county.
