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County health in Texas

Texas had 254 counties in CDC’s model-based county estimates for 2023, according to CDC’s PLACES.

Texas’s counties on each measure

Age-adjusted, as counties are compared, with each end’s 95% interval. The median is one of the published values: at least half the counties are at or below it. Each measure with two or more counties with an estimate links to Texas’s counties ranked on it.

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Each PLACES measure across Texas’s counties: the median, highest and lowest age-adjusted estimate
MeasureMedian countyHighest
Any disability among adults33.8%Dimmit 46.8% (40.5% to 52.6%)
Cognitive disability among adults17.1%Dimmit 23.4% (20.0% to 27.0%)
Hearing disability among adults7.0%Dimmit 9.6% (8.5% to 10.8%)
Independent living disability among adults9.3%Dimmit 14.8% (12.6% to 17.1%)
Mobility disability among adults14.8%Dimmit 25.2% (21.8% to 28.7%)
Self-care disability among adults4.3%Dimmit 9.2% (7.9% to 10.6%)
Vision disability among adults6.1%Dimmit 15.5% (13.5% to 17.6%)
All teeth lost among adults aged ≥65 years16.0%Kenedy 34.9% (31.1% to 38.7%)
Arthritis among adults22.5%Newton 26.6% (23.3% to 29.8%), San Augustine 26.6% (23.3% to 29.9%)
Cancer (non-skin) or melanoma among adults6.3%Archer 7.1% (6.6% to 7.6%), Armstrong 7.1% (6.4% to 7.9%), Carson 7.1% (6.4% to 7.9%), Clay 7.1% (6.4% to 7.9%), Hood 7.1% (6.3% to 7.9%), Llano 7.1% (6.4% to 7.9%), Parker 7.1% (6.3% to 7.8%), Roberts 7.1% (6.3% to 7.8%), Shackelford 7.1% (6.4% to 7.9%)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among adults6.6%San Augustine 10.4% (8.9% to 12.0%)
Coronary heart disease among adults5.9%Dimmit 8.5% (7.6% to 9.6%)
Current asthma among adults9.9%San Augustine 11.8% (10.4% to 13.3%)
Depression among adults23.3%Newton 26.8% (22.8% to 30.8%)
Diagnosed diabetes among adults12.2%Dimmit 21.5% (18.9% to 24.3%)
High blood pressure among adults33.5%San Augustine 40.0% (35.5% to 44.6%)
High cholesterol among adults who have ever been screened32.7%Angelina 36.0% (32.5% to 39.5%)
Obesity among adults37.5%Zavala 48.2% (43.7% to 52.5%)
Stroke among adults3.3%Dimmit 4.8% (4.3% to 5.4%)
Fair or poor self-rated health status among adults23.2%Dimmit 41.9% (36.5% to 47.4%)
Frequent mental distress among adults18.5%Newton 22.8% (20.2% to 25.5%)
Frequent physical distress among adults14.4%Dimmit 20.8% (18.0% to 23.7%)
Cholesterol screening among adults82.8%Collin 87.2% (85.4% to 89.1%)
Colorectal cancer screening among adults aged 45–75 years52.9%Williamson 62.4% (58.1% to 66.5%)
Current lack of health insurance among adults aged 18-64 years19.0%Starr 43.7% (35.8% to 51.9%)
Mammography use among women aged 50-74 years70.5%Denton 79.2% (73.0% to 84.6%), Tarrant 79.2% (73.8% to 84.0%)
Taking medicine to control high blood pressure among adults with high blood pressure57.9%San Augustine 61.4% (57.0% to 65.8%)
Visited dentist or dental clinic in the past year among adults50.9%Collin 67.1% (64.3% to 69.9%)
Visits to doctor for routine checkup within the past year among adults72.2%Bell 76.1% (72.9% to 79.1%)
Binge drinking among adults18.0%Parker 20.9% (17.3% to 24.7%)
Current cigarette smoking among adults15.3%Newton 22.9% (19.4% to 26.5%), San Augustine 22.9% (19.4% to 26.7%)
No leisure-time physical activity among adults29.6%Dimmit 48.9% (41.9% to 55.5%)
Short sleep duration among adults39.5%Newton 45.2% (37.8% to 52.8%)

Measures CDC did not publish for Texas

CDC served no estimate of these for any of Texas’s counties in this release. Why is on the methodology page.

  • Food insecurity in the past 12 months among adults
  • Housing insecurity in the past 12 months among adults
  • Lack of reliable transportation in the past 12 months among adults
  • Lack of social and emotional support among adults
  • Loneliness among adults
  • Received food stamps in the past 12 months among adults
  • Utility services shut-off threat in the past 12 months among adults

Every county in Texas

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Every county CDC served in Texas, with how many measures it has a published estimate for
CountyMeasures published
Anderson33 of 40
Andrews33 of 40
Angelina33 of 40
Aransas33 of 40
Archer33 of 40
Armstrong33 of 40
Atascosa33 of 40
Austin33 of 40
Bailey33 of 40
Bandera33 of 40
Bastrop33 of 40
Baylor33 of 40
Bee33 of 40
Bell33 of 40
Bexar33 of 40
Blanco33 of 40
Borden33 of 40
Bosque33 of 40
Bowie33 of 40
Brazoria33 of 40
Brazos33 of 40
Brewster33 of 40
Briscoe33 of 40
Brooks33 of 40
Brown33 of 40
Burleson33 of 40
Burnet33 of 40
Caldwell33 of 40
Calhoun33 of 40
Callahan33 of 40
Cameron33 of 40
Camp33 of 40
Carson33 of 40
Cass33 of 40
Castro33 of 40
Chambers33 of 40
Cherokee33 of 40
Childress33 of 40
Clay33 of 40
Cochran33 of 40
Coke33 of 40
Coleman33 of 40
Collin33 of 40
Collingsworth33 of 40
Colorado33 of 40
Comal33 of 40
Comanche33 of 40
Concho33 of 40
Cooke33 of 40
Coryell33 of 40
Cottle33 of 40
Crane33 of 40
Crockett33 of 40
Crosby33 of 40
Culberson33 of 40
Dallam33 of 40
Dallas33 of 40
Dawson33 of 40
DeWitt33 of 40
Deaf Smith33 of 40
Delta33 of 40
Denton33 of 40
Dickens33 of 40
Dimmit33 of 40
Donley33 of 40
Duval33 of 40
Eastland33 of 40
Ector33 of 40
Edwards33 of 40
El Paso33 of 40
Ellis33 of 40
Erath33 of 40
Falls33 of 40
Fannin33 of 40
Fayette33 of 40
Fisher33 of 40
Floyd33 of 40
Foard33 of 40
Fort Bend33 of 40
Franklin33 of 40
Freestone33 of 40
Frio33 of 40
Gaines33 of 40
Galveston33 of 40
Garza33 of 40
Gillespie33 of 40
Glasscock33 of 40
Goliad33 of 40
Gonzales33 of 40
Gray33 of 40
Grayson33 of 40
Gregg33 of 40
Grimes33 of 40
Guadalupe33 of 40
Hale33 of 40
Hall33 of 40
Hamilton33 of 40
Hansford33 of 40
Hardeman33 of 40
Hardin33 of 40
Harris33 of 40
Harrison33 of 40
Hartley33 of 40
Haskell33 of 40
Hays33 of 40
Hemphill33 of 40
Henderson33 of 40
Hidalgo33 of 40
Hill33 of 40
Hockley33 of 40
Hood33 of 40
Hopkins33 of 40
Houston33 of 40
Howard33 of 40
Hudspeth33 of 40
Hunt33 of 40
Hutchinson33 of 40
Irion33 of 40
Jack33 of 40
Jackson33 of 40
Jasper33 of 40
Jeff Davis33 of 40
Jefferson33 of 40
Jim Hogg33 of 40
Jim Wells33 of 40
Johnson33 of 40
Jones33 of 40
Karnes33 of 40
Kaufman33 of 40
Kendall33 of 40
Kenedy33 of 40
Kent33 of 40
Kerr33 of 40
Kimble33 of 40
King33 of 40
Kinney33 of 40
Kleberg33 of 40
Knox33 of 40
La Salle33 of 40
Lamar33 of 40
Lamb33 of 40
Lampasas33 of 40
Lavaca33 of 40
Lee33 of 40
Leon33 of 40
Liberty33 of 40
Limestone33 of 40
Lipscomb33 of 40
Live Oak33 of 40
Llano33 of 40
Lovingnone
Lubbock33 of 40
Lynn33 of 40
Madison33 of 40
Marion33 of 40
Martin33 of 40
Mason33 of 40
Matagorda33 of 40
Maverick33 of 40
McCulloch33 of 40
McLennan33 of 40
McMullen33 of 40
Medina33 of 40
Menard33 of 40
Midland33 of 40
Milam33 of 40
Mills33 of 40
Mitchell33 of 40
Montague33 of 40
Montgomery33 of 40
Moore33 of 40
Morris33 of 40
Motley33 of 40
Nacogdoches33 of 40
Navarro33 of 40
Newton33 of 40
Nolan33 of 40
Nueces33 of 40
Ochiltree33 of 40
Oldham33 of 40
Orange33 of 40
Palo Pinto33 of 40
Panola33 of 40
Parker33 of 40
Parmer33 of 40
Pecos33 of 40
Polk33 of 40
Potter33 of 40
Presidio33 of 40
Rains33 of 40
Randall33 of 40
Reagan33 of 40
Real33 of 40
Red River33 of 40
Reeves33 of 40
Refugio33 of 40
Roberts33 of 40
Robertson33 of 40
Rockwall33 of 40
Runnels33 of 40
Rusk33 of 40
Sabine33 of 40
San Augustine33 of 40
San Jacinto33 of 40
San Patricio33 of 40
San Saba33 of 40
Schleicher33 of 40
Scurry33 of 40
Shackelford33 of 40
Shelby33 of 40
Sherman33 of 40
Smith33 of 40
Somervell33 of 40
Starr33 of 40
Stephens33 of 40
Sterling33 of 40
Stonewall33 of 40
Sutton33 of 40
Swisher33 of 40
Tarrant33 of 40
Taylor33 of 40
Terrell33 of 40
Terry33 of 40
Throckmorton33 of 40
Titus33 of 40
Tom Green33 of 40
Travis33 of 40
Trinity33 of 40
Tyler33 of 40
Upshur33 of 40
Upton33 of 40
Uvalde33 of 40
Val Verde33 of 40
Van Zandt33 of 40
Victoria33 of 40
Walker33 of 40
Waller33 of 40
Ward33 of 40
Washington33 of 40
Webb33 of 40
Wharton33 of 40
Wheeler33 of 40
Wichita33 of 40
Wilbarger33 of 40
Willacy33 of 40
Williamson33 of 40
Wilson33 of 40
Winkler33 of 40
Wise33 of 40
Wood33 of 40
Yoakum33 of 40
Young33 of 40
Zapata33 of 40
Zavala33 of 40

Texas elsewhere on the Factbook

  • Reported crime Crime and justice

    Offenses reported to police by type, the trend, and the reporting coverage.

  • Cities by violent crime rate in Texas Crime and justice

    What each agency serving 25,000 or more reported, ranked. Agency populations overlap, so these do not add up to the state.

  • Prison population Crime and justice

    People held under the state’s correctional authority, and the imprisonment rate. A different publisher counting a different thing.

  • Arrests by race, sex and age Crime and justice

    Arrests as the FBI’s participating agencies reported them, with what the figures can and cannot support at the top.

  • Hate crime Crime and justice

    Incidents reported to the FBI by bias motivation, as counts — the collection publishes no participation share, so there is no rate to compare states on.

  • Federal obligations Federal spending

    What federal agencies obligated against a place of performance in the state, per resident and by agency.

  • Registered nonprofits Nonprofits

    How many organizations the IRS lists in the state, what they report as revenue, and which kinds of work they do.

  • Payments to doctors Health

    What drug and device companies reported paying doctors with a practice address in the state, and the largest recipients.

  • Immigration courts Immigration and the border

    The EOIR courts sitting in the state, what they completed and still have pending, and how far apart their asylum grant rates are. The courts, not the state’s residents: a detention court hears cases from far outside it.

  • Farm program payments Farm subsidies

    What the Farm Service Agency paid through the state’s county offices, by program and by recipient. The offices that administered the payments, not a count of farms: a recipient addressed elsewhere is counted where they were paid.

  • Paycheck Protection Program loans PPP loans

    The PPP loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, by county, with how many carry a forgiveness amount and how many were charged off. Loans, not businesses: a business with two draws is two loans.

  • Population, age, income and origin Demographics

    The Census Bureau's population estimates year by year, with births, deaths and migration, and age, income, poverty, housing and origin from the American Community Survey, each with its margin of error.

  • Public schools Schools

    Pupils, schools and teachers, the largest districts, what districts spend per pupil and where the money comes from, and the colleges that take federal student aid.

  • Banks and credit unions Banks and credit unions

    The FDIC-insured banks headquartered in the state and their offices, and the credit unions based there and their sites, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Housing Housing

    The homes under HUD’s rental assistance programs in the state, by program and county, and its tax-credit housing, each per resident and against every other state.

  • Mortgage lending Mortgage lending

    The mortgage applications, loans and denials lenders reported in the state under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and its largest lenders and counties.

  • Cost of living Cost of living

    BEA’s price level for the state against the nation, for goods, rents, utilities and other services, and its metro areas beside it.

  • College athletics Sports

    Every college in the state that reported to the Equity in Athletics survey, ranked by its athletics revenue, with its expenses, athletes and athletic aid.

  • Federal civilian workforce Federal salaries

    Federal civilian employees stationed in the state by agency and occupation, with the pay OPM publishes and the share it withholds.

  • The Texas Factbook entry Across the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

The immigration link above is EOIR’s courts, which sit in this state. CBP’s encounters are not by state and will not be: its sectors and field offices are areas of responsibility rather than a geography, and assigning them to states would be a claim the data does not make. Immigration and the border.

Sources

Compiled automatically from PLACES: Local Data for Better Health, County Data, 2025 release by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved