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Upton County, Texas

Upton County, Texas has a quality-of-life score of 31 out of 100 (low), ranking #2,184 of 3,143 US counties. Within Texas it ranks #123 of 254 counties. It ranks best on cost of buying a home today (low), job growth (high) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on bachelor's degree or higher (low), flu vaccinations (low) and traffic deaths (high).

31Low

Quality-of-life score: #2,184 of 3,143 counties
Texas: #123 of 254 in TX
Population: 3,131 (2025)
Land area: 1,241 mi²
Density: 2.5 /mi²
FIPS code: 48461

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 counties.

Safety65#1,073/3,096
Economy79#651/3,143
Housing57#1,356/3,140
Health40#1,898/3,144
Healthcare45#1,717/3,143
Environment25#2,336/3,108
Education9#2,852/3,144
Infrastructure3#3,047/3,144
Community25#2,358/3,144
Leisure & amenities22#2,463/3,143

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Upton County, Texas ranks highest and lowest among US counties (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Cost of buying a home today · low10.0%
100/100Texas 30.7%United States 34.1%Aug 2026Zillow Research
Job growth · high17.4%
99/100Texas 0.6%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional data
Unemployment rate · low1.8%
99/100Texas 4.2%United States 4.3%2025U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPartial year
Preventable hospital stays · low873 /100k
99/100Texas 2,991 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Average weekly wage · high$1,809
99/100Texas $1,499United States $1,5142025U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Public libraries · high9.6 /10k
98/100Texas 0.3 /10kUnited States 0.5 /10k2024Institute of Museum and Library Services

Weaknesses

Bachelor's degree or higher · low8.7%
1/100Texas 33.8%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Flu vaccinations · low14.0%
1/100Texas 40.0%United States 44.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Traffic deaths · high94.2 /100k
2/100Texas 14.1 /100kUnited States 12.3 /100k2020-2024National Highway Traffic Safety AdministrationProvisional data
Hot days · high122 days
2/100Texas 111 daysUnited States 42 days2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Social associations · low0.0 /10k
2/100Texas 7.3 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Dentists · low0 /100k
3/100Texas 63 /100kUnited States 75 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
3,301 (2020) → 3,131 (2025)
−5.1%5 yearsUS 331,578,104 → 341,784,857
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
49.8% (2015-2019) → 75.1% (2020-2024)
+25 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
New homes permittedImproving
0.3 /1k (2021) → 0.6 /1k (Sep 2025–Aug 2026)
+107%5 yearsUS 5.2 /1k → 4.2 /1k
Job growthImproving
-2.8% (2021) → 17.4% (2026 Q1)
+20 pts5 yearsUS 3.4% → 0.1%
Arts, entertainment and recreationWorsening
3.0 /10k (2020) → 0.0 /10k (2025)
−100%5 yearsUS 4.8 /10k → 5.5 /10k
Income adjusted for local pricesImproving
$56,741 (2019) → $109,320 (2024)
+93%5 yearsUS $55,567 → $73,204

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, Upton County, Texas improved on 8 of 27 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 18 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 2020 with 2025); each row names its own in its tooltip and in the table.

Improved8

Real income+93%$56,741 → $109,320
Broadband+25 points49.8% → 75.1%
Uninsured−3.6 points20.5% → 16.9%
Unemployment−4.5 points6.3% → 1.8%
Students / teacher−1.1×10.9× → 9.8×

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 27 measures

Change of every measure of Upton County, Texas between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Arts, entertainment and recreation	3.0 /10k2020	0.0 /10k2025	−100%	Within the margin of error	1%
Average commute time	24.8 min2015-2019	30.5 min2020-2024	+5.7 min	Within the margin of error	3%
Average weekly wage	$1,5702020	$1,8092025	+15%	Improved	6%
Bachelor's degree or higher	9.6%2015-2019	8.7%2020-2024	−0.9 points	Within the margin of error	8%
Broadband subscriptions	49.8%2015-2019	75.1%2020-2024	+25 points	Improved	98%
Child poverty rate	18.8%2019	17.6%2024	−1.2 points	Within the margin of error	44%
Distance to an airport	53 mi2020	53 mi2025	0 mi	Little change	50%
Drug overdose deaths	14.5 /100k2020	0.0 /100kMar 2025–Feb 2026	−100%	Within the margin of error	97%
Effective property tax rate	1.17%2015-2019	1.07%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	45%
Grocery stores	3.0 /10k2020	3.2 /10k2025	+5.4%	Within the margin of error	72%
High school diploma or higher	75.6%2015-2019	79.4%2020-2024	+3.9 points	Within the margin of error	81%
Home price to income ratio	1.3×2015-2019	2.2×2020-2024	+0.9×	Within the margin of error	12%
Income adjusted for local prices	$56,7412019	$109,3202024	+93%	Improved	100%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.4372015-2019	0.4452020-2024	+0.009	Within the margin of error	39%
Median household income	$58,9082019	$75,0212024	+27%	Improved	62%
New business applications	8.5 /1k2020	10.5 /1k2025	+24%	Improved	27%
Pharmacies	3.0 /10k2020	3.2 /10k2025	+5.4%	Within the margin of error	85%
Poverty rate	13.8%2019	13.4%2024	−0.4 points	Within the margin of error	55%
Property crime rate	474 /100k2020	669 /100k2025	+41%	Within the margin of error	3%
Public libraries	8.2 /10k2019	9.6 /10k2024	+17%	Within the margin of error	94%
Rent-burdened households	32.2%2015-2019	43.2%2020-2024	+11 points	Within the margin of error	9%
Restaurants and bars	6.1 /10k2020	6.4 /10k2025	+5.4%	Within the margin of error	65%
Students per teacher	10.9×2019	9.8×2024	−1.1×	Improved	64%
Traffic deaths	76.5 /100k2015-2019	94.2 /100k2020-2024	+23%	Within the margin of error	30%
Unemployment rate	6.3%2020	1.8%2025	−4.5 points	Improved	89%
Uninsured residents (under 65)	20.5%2019	16.9%2024	−3.6 points	Improved	89%
Violent crime rate	119 /100k2020	56 /100k2025	−53%	Within the margin of error	89%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 2303 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; Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence; American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates; Business Formation Statistics; Small Area Health Insurance Estimates; Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates; Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master files; 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.

Counties like Upton County, Texas five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Upton 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.

For comparison, Upton County, Texas itself moved −2.1 points in standing on average over the same 28 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

3,191 residents

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

1,360 households (±106)

Upton County, Texas
Texas share

Under $25k25%335
$25k–50k26%†355
$50k–75k11%†152

Homes

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

Owners and renters

1,360 households (±106)

Upton County, Texas
Texas share

Own77%1,050
Rent23%†310

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

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

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Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,204 workers (±159)

Upton County, Texas
Texas share

Drive alone85%1,029
Carpool8.0%†96
Public transit0.0%0

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.

Upton County has 107 employer establishments, 342 for every 10,000 residents (1.38× the US rate of 248; 1.57× Texas's), with 1,381 paid employees at an average annual pay of $86,999. The Census Bureau also counts 244 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 107; 244 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 342; US 248 · Texas 218
Paid employees: 1,381
Average annual pay: $86,999; US $68,342

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

Heavy and civil engineering construction	6	19.2	16.7×Too few to compare	67	$56,612	3
Truck transportation	6	19.2	3.80×Too few to compare	70	$70,814	4
Gasoline stations	5	16	4.93×Too few to compare	40	$32,700	—
Grocery and convenience stores	3	9.6	3.23×Too few to compare	21	$20,571	—
Restaurants and other eating places	3	9.6	0.52×Too few to compare	12	$7,583	3
Specialty trade contractors	3	9.6	0.62×Too few to compare	3	$47,000	23
Accounting, tax preparation and payroll services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Advertising, public relations and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Ambulatory health care services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	5
Amusement, gambling and recreation industries	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Architectural, engineering and related services	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—
Auto parts, accessories and tire stores	0	0	0.00×Too few to compare	0	—	—

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

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 3,126 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 contract spending

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $0 on contracts performed in Upton County, Texas: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; 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

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

53.2KFY2022
15.5KFY2024
-24.8KFY2025

What was bought

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.

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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.

In FY2026, federal agencies obligated $18M in grants, loans, direct payments and insurance for Upton County, Texas: $5,755 per resident (US $12,955).

Assistance · FY2026: $18M; +2.7% vs FY2025
Per resident: $5,755; US $12,955
Loan face value: $300.1K; lent or guaranteed
To individuals: 11%; counted, never named

Top programs

96.002 · Social Security Retirement Insurance$10.7M59%
96.004 · Social Security Survivors Insurance$1.8M10%
10.988 · Supplemental Disaster Relief Program$1.6M9.1%
64.109 · Veterans Compensation for Service-Connected Disability$1.2M6.7%
96.001 · Social Security Disability Insurance$991.3K5.5%
10.912 · Environmental Quality Incentives Program$936.6K5.2%
96.006 · Supplemental Security Income$435.7K2.4%
10.109 · Livestock Forage Disaster Program$44.8K0.2%

Top recipients (organizations)

ONE SEVEN CATTLE COMPANY LLC$450K2.5%
RANKIN, TX
POAGE FAMILY RANCHES LLC$188.9K1.0%
MARBLE FALLS, TX
RANKIN HOUSING AUTHORITY$47.1K0.3%
RANKIN, TX
RANKIN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT$37.2K0.2%
RANKIN, TX
AT&T ENTERPRISES, LLC$16.9K

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.

Top agencies

Social Security Administration$14M77%
Farm Service Agency$1.7M9.4%
Department of Agriculture
Under Secretary for Benefits/Veterans Benefits Administration$1.3M7.3%
Department of Veterans Affairs
Natural Resources Conservation Service$936.6K5.2%
Department of Agriculture
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing

Assistance by fiscal year

11.7MFY2021
15.7MFY2022
23.5MFY2023
15.4MFY2024
17.5MFY2025
18MFY2026

County aggregates

85%

Share of obligations reported only as county totals of many small awards (for example Social Security or Medicare payments), with no recipient named.

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026 · FY2021–FY2026.

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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.

How Upton 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.

Upton County, Texas
United States
partial year

Federal contractsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Upton County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Upton County, Texas	United States
FY2017	$0	$1,436
FY2018	$0	$1,552
FY2019	$0	$1,654
FY2020	$0	$1,880
FY2021	$0	$1,810
FY2022	$16.87	$1,917
FY2023	$0	$2,079
FY2024	$4.98	$2,047
FY2025	-$7.90	$2,165
FY2026	$0 (partial year)	$1,911

Contracts and grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Upton County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Upton County, Texas	United States
FY2021	$37.85	$5,748
FY2022	$42.93	$5,221
FY2023	$2,919	$5,364
FY2024	$33.52	$5,501
FY2025	-$23.97	$5,732
FY2026	$25.24

Transportation grantsUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Upton County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Upton County, Texas	United States
FY2021	$14.37	$298
FY2022	$1.22	$357
FY2023	$2,891	$301
FY2024	$0	$319
FY2025	-$44.84	$360
FY2026	$0

Housing assistanceUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Upton County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Upton County, Texas	United States
FY2021	$14.00	$239
FY2022	$15.01	$185
FY2023	$16.31	$229
FY2024	$17.96	$229
FY2025	$18.89	$249
FY2026	$15.04

SBA lending volumeUS dollars per resident

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Money per resident, Upton County, Texas and the United States, by fiscal year
Fiscal years (FY2024 = October 2023 to September 2024)	Upton County, Texas	United States
FY2021	$1,697	$1,186
FY2022	$963	$465
FY2023	$0	$76.52
FY2024	$49.77	$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.

Upton County, Texas
United States
Years with money loaded

Job growthpercent

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Job growth, Upton County, Texas and the United States, by year
Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	12.4%	2.0%
2015	−5.4%

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/48461

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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.

Upton County, Texas is represented in the 119th Congress by these members.

Senate

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Cities and towns in Upton County

Places whose residents live mostly in Upton County, largest first.

Neighboring counties

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar counties

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.

Mapping Injury, Overdose, and ViolenceCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2026-10-01
PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Daily county PM2.5 and ozone (EPA downscaler model)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · release 2022
Care Compare: Hospital General Information and Timely and Effective CareCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services · release 2026-07-22
Distance to airports and intercity railFederal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau · release 2025+amtrak-2026-04-23
Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Return A master filesFederal Bureau of Investigation · release 2025
National Risk IndexFederal Emergency Management Agency · release v1.20.0
Health Professional Shortage AreasHealth Resources and Services Administration · release 2026-10-03
Public Libraries SurveyInstitute of Museum and Library Services · release FY2024
Common Core of DataNational Center for Education Statistics · release 2024
U.S. Drought Monitor county statisticsNational Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAA · release 2026-09-29
Fatality Analysis Reporting SystemNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration · release 2024
nClimGrid-Daily county averagesNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information · release 2025
Regional Economic AccountsU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · release 2024
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
Quarterly Census of Employment and WagesU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2026 Q1
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Building Permits SurveyU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-08
Business Formation StatisticsU.S. Census Bureau · release 2026-10-01
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
Alternative Fuels Data Center station locatorU.S. Department of Energy · release 2026-10
Election Administration and Voting SurveyU.S. Election Assistance Commission · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement
Zillow Home Value Index, Observed Rent Index and affordabilityZillow Research · release 2026-08

JSON · /api/v1/places/48461

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	+12.3%	−4.2%
2015	+1.6%	−1.3%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+11.6%	+3.3%
2018	+12.7%	+6.8%
2019	+30.8%	+10.5%
2020	+35.2%	+19.4%
2021	+31.2%	+26.1%
2022	+33.8%	+30.6%
2023	+39.2%	+35.0%
2024	+45.2%	+41.0%
2025	+55.8%	+46.8%

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	+35.4%	−5.5%
2015	+15.0%	−1.9%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+13.4%	+4.1%
2018	+21.5%	+8.9%
2019	+28.7%	+13.5%
2020	+38.6%	+20.8%
2021	+59.7%	+32.1%
2022	+101.3%	+35.4%
2023	+124.5%	+42.9%
2024	+142.4%	+49.5%

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	0.3/1k	3.3/1k
2015	0.3/1k	3.7/1k
2016	0.0/1k	3.7/1k
2017	0.8/1k	3.9/1k
2018	0.8/1k	4.1/1k
2019	1.1/1k	4.2/1k
2020	0.0/1k	4.4/1k
2021	0.3/1k	5.2/1k
2022	0.3/1k	5.0/1k
2023	0.0/1k	4.5/1k
2024	0.3/1k	4.3/1k
2025	0.3/1k	4.2/1k

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	−0.7%	−6.9%
2015	+1.3%	−3.2%
2016	0.0%	0.0%
2017	+0.2%	+4.7%
2018	−4.4%	+7.5%
2019	+4.6%	+14.0%
2020	+5.8%	+16.9%
2021	−12.4%	+21.0%
2022	+9.4%	+29.7%
2023	+4.8%	+34.9%
2024	+33.2%	+41.6%

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	10.3/1k	8.5/1k
2015	7.4/1k	8.7/1k
2016	8.4/1k	9.1/1k
2017	8.8/1k	9.8/1k
2018	13.5/1k	10.7/1k
2019	14.3/1k	10.6/1k
2020	8.5/1k	13.1/1k
2021	10.8/1k	16.2/1k
2022	7.0/1k	15.1/1k
2023	5.8/1k	16.2/1k
2024	12.2/1k	15.4/1k
2025	10.5/1k	16.6/1k

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	3.3%	6.2%
2015	3.9%	5.3%
2016	6.0%	4.9%
2017	4.2%	4.4%
2018	3.7%	3.9%
2019	3.1%	3.7%
2020	6.3%	8.1%
2021	5.7%	5.4%
2022	2.9%	3.7%
2023	1.8%	3.6%
2024	1.7%	4.0%
2025	1.8%	4.3%

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	14.3%	15.5%
2015	13.5%	14.7%
2016	13.6%	14.0%
2017	14.0%	13.4%
2018	14.2%	13.1%
2019	13.8%	12.3%
2020	12.1%	11.9%
2021	15.6%	12.8%
2022	15.6%	12.6%
2023	15.3%	12.5%
2024	13.4%	12.1%

Calendar years	Upton 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	— (Dec 2019)	+18.1% (Dec 2019)
2020	— (Dec 2020)	+29.3% (Dec 2020)
2021	— (Dec 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)

Calendar years	Upton County, Texas	United States
2014	22.8%	13.5%
2015	19.7%	10.9%
2016	20.5%	10.0%
2017	22.6%	10.2%
2018	19.0%	10.4%
2019	20.5%	10.8%
2020	22.6%	10.4%
2021	22.3%	10.2%
2022	19.7%	9.5%
2023	18.1%	9.5%
2024	16.9%	9.8%

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What changed in five years

Improved8

Declined0

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Age and sex

Income

Household income

Homes

Owners and renters

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How people get to work

Local businesses

Federal contract spending

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Spending by fiscal year

What was bought

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County aggregates

Public money & outcomes

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Representation in Congress

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Cities and towns in Upton County

Neighboring counties

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Data and sources

Improved8

Declined0

Age and sex

Household income

Owners and renters

How people get to work

Race and Hispanic origin

Education

Rent paid

Home values

Age of homes

Size of homes

Time to get to work

Money per resident

How outcomes moved

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Senate

Top programs

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What was bought