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Armstrong County, TX

A county, and one of the 3,222 county-level areas the Census Bureau reports for the United States.

Population1883
Density0.8people per km² of land
Median household income$68,462
Land area2355km²

Its peers

These are the 50 areas most like Armstrong County in population density and median household income (the middle household income). Both are measured in percentage terms and put on the same scale, so neither one counts for more. The closest eight: Sweet Grass County, MT, Emmons County, ND, Emery County, UT, Dolores County, CO, Carbon County, WY, Madison County, MT, Cavalier County, ND, Hettinger County, ND. The peer scores below compare this county with all 50.

Least like its peers

The measures where Armstrong Countyis furthest from the average of its peers. The gap is shown in “sd” (standard deviations), which means typical gaps between peers: −2 sd is about two typical gaps below the peer average. A national ranking would hide these numbers behind the county’s income.

MeasureValueAmong peersNationallyvs peers
Departures per 100 people staying9.29100th pct by value95th pct by value +3.4 sd
Median property tax bill2,679100th pct by value82nd pct by value +2.7 sd
Life expectancy69.7 years0th pct5th pct -2.6 sd
Premature mortality6522nd pct16th pct +2.2 sd
Gini index of income inequality0.352100th pct100th pct -2.2 sd
Business opening rate18.298th pct by value99th pct by value +2.1 sd

How it has changed

This chart covers 2010–2024. A few measures were published only once — the school, moving-up-the-income-ladder (mobility) and social-ties (social capital) ones. They show as a single point that says so. Everything else is drawn over the years its publisher covers. Each value sits at the year it describes, not the year it came out.

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Every measure

Rates and medians come first, then counts. Counts have no peer score. A county’s population cannot be high or low “for its peers” when the peers were picked partly by density. Density and median household income have no peer score either, since they are what the peers were picked by.

Adult income rank of children raised poor here0.4822482-0.9Opportunity Atlas
Adults under 65 without health insurance12%2035+0.1CDC PLACES
Aggregate travel time to work18,645 min———Census ACS 5-year
Alcohol-involved share of driving deaths uncertain0.35%3530+0.0County Health Rankings
All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over11.3%6679-0.4CDC PLACES
Any disability28.6%5873-0.3CDC PLACES
Arrivals per 100 people staying7.9698·81·+1.8IRS county migration flows
Arthritis22%7083-0.7CDC PLACES
Binge drinking20.5%4016+0.3CDC PLACES
Black Protestant adherents0100·45·—
Business closing rate9.0950·63·+0.3Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments46———Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments closed4———Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments opened8———Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business opening rate18.298·99·+2.1Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Cancer other than skin cancer7.1%7853-0.2CDC PLACES
Catholic adherents00·6·-1.1
Child poverty rate, ages 0-17 uncertain15.3%3463+0.2Census SAIPE
Children in the mobility cohort293———Opportunity Atlas
Children with below-median parental income293———Social Capital Atlas
Cholesterol screening84.7%9880+1.7CDC PLACES
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease5.6%7280-0.7CDC PLACES
Cognitive disability14.7%6072-0.3CDC PLACES
Colorectal cancer screening57.7%7251+0.5CDC PLACES
Congregations per 10,000 people27.116·65·-0.9
Coronary heart disease5.1%8686-1.1CDC PLACES
Current asthma10.1%5673-0.4CDC PLACES
Current cigarette smoking13.3%8082-0.8CDC PLACES
Dental visit in the past year58.6%1848-0.6CDC PLACES
Departures per 100 people staying9.29100·95·+3.4IRS county migration flows
Depression24.8%2241+0.8CDC PLACES
Diagnosed diabetes9.4%3476-0.1CDC PLACES
Disability-free score0.72864·80·+0.6
Economic connectedness1.076191+0.5Social Capital Atlas
Economy score1.1650·69·-0.0
Effective property tax rate1.4484·85·+0.9Census ACS 5-year
Employed837———BLS LAUS
Evangelical Protestant adherents2888·67·+1.4
Fair or poor self-rated health17.2%5275-0.2CDC PLACES
Fine particulate matter5.84086-0.1County Health Rankings
Flu vaccination among Medicare enrollees0.33%5422+0.0County Health Rankings
Frequent mental distress18.4%2453+0.7CDC PLACES
Frequent physical distress12.2%6078-0.4CDC PLACES
Friending bias-0.096298100-1.9Social Capital Atlas
Friending clustering0.09762·17·-1.6Social Capital Atlas
Gini index of income inequality0.352100100-2.2Census ACS 5-year
Gross domestic product$79,368k———BEA Regional Accounts
Health score-0.16324·41·-0.6
Hearing disability6.1%9481-1.5CDC PLACES
High blood pressure30.4%3471+0.3CDC PLACES
High cholesterol31.8%1655+1.1CDC PLACES
Homeownership rate81.8%90·89·+1.0Census ACS 5-year
Housing units888———Census ACS 5-year
Incarceration rate97441·47·-0.3
Income gap between arrivals and departures$-4,31238·19·-0.3IRS county migration flows
Independent-living disability7.4%6279-0.5CDC PLACES
Jail admission rate2,14468·53·-0.1
Jail population rate40856·49·-0.1
Labour force868———BLS LAUS
Life expectancy69.7 years05-2.6County Health Rankings
Mainline Protestant adherents17.762·89·+0.1
Mammography in the past two years69.9%3221-0.6CDC PLACES
Material security score1.3198·98·+1.8
Mean adjusted gross income per return$71,4854359-0.3IRS Statistics of Income
Mean income of arriving households$54,14548·48·-0.2IRS county migration flows
Mean income of departing households$58,45753·67·+0.1IRS county migration flows
Mean travel time to work23.9 min453+1.7Census ACS 5-year
Median age43 years40·64·-0.2Census ACS 5-year
Median gross rent$1,01086·74·+1.2Census ACS 5-year
Median home value$185,70057·56·+0.0Census ACS 5-year
Median household income$68,462—64—Census ACS 5-year
Median household income (model-based)$68,5556465+0.2Census SAIPE
Median property tax bill2,679100·82·+2.7Census ACS 5-year
Membership of volunteering groups0.073%2850-0.6Social Capital Atlas
Membership organisations278098+0.8County Health Rankings
Mobility disability11.4%4875-0.2CDC PLACES
Mutual-friend share0.98912·29·-1.6Social Capital Atlas
Net business formation rate9.0998·99·+1.9Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Net migration per 100 people staying-1.3311·7·-1.0IRS county migration flows
No leisure-time physical activity22.8%5479-0.3CDC PLACES
Obesity33.3%7283-0.5CDC PLACES
Occupied housing units754———Census ACS 5-year
Orthodox Christian adherents098·78·-0.1
Other religion adherents042·11·-0.5
Owner-occupied housing units617———Census ACS 5-year
People covered by a tax return1,820———IRS Statistics of Income
People per tax return288·91·+1.1IRS Statistics of Income
People who did not move1,507———IRS county migration flows
Per capita income$33,8832051-0.7Census ACS 5-year
Per capita personal income$71,5787086+0.2BEA Regional Accounts
Personal income$130,990k———BEA Regional Accounts
Population1,830———BEA Regional Accounts
Population1,832———County Health Rankings
Population aged 15 and over1,511———Census ACS 5-year
Population aged 18 and over1,422———CDC PLACES
Population aged 25 and over1,289———Census ACS 5-year
Population aged 65 and over489———Census ACS 5-year
Population below the poverty line uncertain106———Census ACS 5-year
Population below the poverty line188———Census SAIPE
Population for whom poverty status is determined1,829———Census ACS 5-year
Population for whom poverty status is determined1,791———Census SAIPE
Population in the same house one year ago1,724———Census ACS 5-year
Population with a bachelor's degree or higher276———Census ACS 5-year
Population, decennial census1,848———
Poverty rate uncertain5.8%10098-1.3Census ACS 5-year
Poverty rate (model-based)10.5%6475-0.4Census SAIPE
Premature mortality uncertain652216+2.2County Health Rankings
Presidential votes cast, 2000938———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 20041,004———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2008990———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2012935———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 20161,021———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 20201,112———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 20241,109———MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Pretrial share of the jail population84.6%73·81·+0.7
Preventable hospital stays1,9645880-0.4County Health Rankings
Prison population rate56660·46·-0.2
Private job growth1.1556·41·+0.2BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Private jobs352———BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Public-good pages per 1,000 users0.03326093-0.1Social Capital Atlas
Religious adherents45.736·45·-0.5
Republican share of the two-party vote, 200083.788·98·+1.1MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 20048382·97·+0.9MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 20088796·100·+1.5MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 201289.494·99·+1.3MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 201693100·100·+1.2MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 202093.2100·100·+1.2MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 202493.198·100·+1.2MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican swing, 2000 to 20249.476·50·+0.7MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Returns claiming charitable contributions2.27%46·30·-0.2IRS Statistics of Income
Returns claiming the earned income credit12.5%66·31·+0.4IRS Statistics of Income
Returns reporting capital gains17%16·60·-1.0IRS Statistics of Income
Returns reporting unemployment compensation0%56·9·-0.7IRS Statistics of Income
Routine checkup in the past year72.6%62·26·+0.5CDC PLACES
Self-care disability3%6282-0.6CDC PLACES
Share aged 65 and over26%64·89·+0.4Census ACS 5-year
Share divorced uncertain12%55·53·+0.2Census ACS 5-year
Share Hispanic or Latino, any race uncertain9.56%64·67·-0.2Census ACS 5-year
Share in the same house a year ago91.6%76·88·+0.8Census ACS 5-year
Share Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic0%100·83·—Census ACS 5-year
Share never married uncertain14.2%2·0·-2.0Census ACS 5-year
Share now married64.3%88·98·+0.9Census ACS 5-year
Share of some other race, not Hispanic0%—53·—Census ACS 5-year
Share White, not Hispanic86.1%40·62·+0.3Census ACS 5-year
Share widowed uncertain9.46%78·91·+0.8Census ACS 5-year
Share with a bachelor's degree or higher21.4%2849-0.6Census ACS 5-year
Sleeping less than 7 hours36.4%1859+1.1CDC PLACES
Social connection score1.7787·99·+1.1
Stroke2.7%6884-0.8CDC PLACES
Taking blood pressure medication56.4%54·23·+0.3CDC PLACES
Tax returns filed880———IRS Statistics of Income
Tests taken2,396———Stanford Education Data Archive
Total population1,883———Census ACS 5-year
Trend in average test score uncertain0.02296587+0.8Stanford Education Data Archive
Unemployed31———BLS LAUS
Unemployment rate3.6%2043+0.9BLS LAUS
Vacancy rate uncertain15.1%18·50·-0.8Census ACS 5-year
Vacant housing units uncertain134———Census ACS 5-year
Vision disability4%6283-0.5CDC PLACES
Women aged 15 to 50322———Census ACS 5-year
Workers aged 16 and over who commute781———Census ACS 5-year

12of these values are marked uncertain. Either the published margin of error (the likely range around a survey estimate) is wide compared with the estimate, or the value was split across Connecticut’s 2022 boundary change. A split value is shared out between old and new areas, not measured directly.

A percentile is the share of the comparison group at or below this county’s value. A peer score needs at least 20 peers with published data. Where fewer report, the cell is left blank instead of being worked out from a handful.