Sterling County, TX

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

Population1389

Density0.6people per km² of land

Median household income—

Land area2392km²

No peer group: this county has no figure for density or median household income, so there is nothing to match it against. Only national percentiles are shown.

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 here	0.441	—	65	—	Opportunity Atlas
Adults under 65 without health insurance	16%	—	13	—	CDC PLACES
Aggregate travel time to work uncertain	13,630 min	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
All natural teeth lost, age 65 and over	11.7%	—	76	—	CDC PLACES
Any disability	27.1%	—	85	—	CDC PLACES
Arrivals per 100 people staying	7.01	—	69·	—	IRS county migration flows
Arthritis	19.9%	—	97	—	CDC PLACES
Binge drinking	20.2%	—	18	—	CDC PLACES
Black Protestant adherents	0	—	45·	—
Business closing rate	15.6	—	99·	—	Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments	37	—	—	—	Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments closed	6	—	—	—	Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business establishments opened	3	—	—	—	Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Business opening rate	7.79	—	24·	—	Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Cancer other than skin cancer	6.3%	—	84	—	CDC PLACES
Catholic adherents	11.2	—	60·	—
Child poverty rate, ages 0-17 uncertain	14.6%	—	67	—	Census SAIPE
Children in the mobility cohort	243	—	—	—	Opportunity Atlas
Children with below-median parental income	243	—	—	—	Social Capital Atlas
Cholesterol screening	85.5%	—	88	—	CDC PLACES
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4.4%	—	97	—	CDC PLACES
Cognitive disability	13.7%	—	85	—	CDC PLACES
Colorectal cancer screening	57.2%	—	46	—	CDC PLACES
Congregations per 10,000 people	51	—	95·	—
Coronary heart disease	4.5%	—	97	—	CDC PLACES
Current asthma	9.3%	—	94	—	CDC PLACES
Current cigarette smoking	11.2%	—	94	—	CDC PLACES
Dental visit in the past year	58.3%	—	46	—	CDC PLACES
Departures per 100 people staying	10.2	—	97·	—	IRS county migration flows
Depression	21.9%	—	71	—	CDC PLACES
Diagnosed diabetes	9.4%	—	76	—	CDC PLACES
Disability-free score	1	—	91·	—
Economic connectedness	0.951	—	77	—	Social Capital Atlas
Economy score	1.79	—	90·	—
Employed	562	—	—	—	BLS LAUS
Evangelical Protestant adherents	37.5	—	81·	—
Fair or poor self-rated health	17.1%	—	75	—	CDC PLACES
Fine particulate matter	6.5	—	74	—	County Health Rankings
Flu vaccination among Medicare enrollees	0.39%	—	40	—	County Health Rankings
Foreign-born population uncertain	132	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Frequent mental distress	16.7%	—	83	—	CDC PLACES
Frequent physical distress	11.5%	—	89	—	CDC PLACES
Friending bias	-0.0051	—	92	—	Social Capital Atlas
Friending clustering	0.104	—	28·	—	Social Capital Atlas
Gini index of income inequality	0.396	—	94	—	Census ACS 5-year
Gross domestic product	$299,510k	—	—	—	BEA Regional Accounts
Health score	0.305	—	72·	—
Hearing disability	5.6%	—	92	—	CDC PLACES
High blood pressure	28.7%	—	88	—	CDC PLACES
High cholesterol	31.7%	—	56	—	CDC PLACES
Homeownership rate	83.3%	—	94·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Housing units	508	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Incarceration rate	1,034	—	51·	—
Income gap between arrivals and departures	$31,519	—	97·	—	IRS county migration flows
Independent-living disability	6.5%	—	94	—	CDC PLACES
Jail admission rate	4,900	—	85·	—
Jail population rate	352	—	40·	—
Labour force	583	—	—	—	BLS LAUS
Mainline Protestant adherents	23.3	—	94·	—
Mammography in the past two years	73.8%	—	52	—	CDC PLACES
Mean adjusted gross income per return	$122,970	—	97	—	IRS Statistics of Income
Mean income of arriving households	$89,630	—	92·	—	IRS county migration flows
Mean income of departing households	$58,111	—	66·	—	IRS county migration flows
Mean travel time to work	27.1 min	—	30	—	Census ACS 5-year
Median age	31.4 years	—	2·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Median gross rent	$968	—	69·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Median home value uncertain	$143,200	—	34·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Median household income (model-based)	$80,859	—	86	—	Census SAIPE
Median property tax bill uncertain	1,535	—	50·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Membership of volunteering groups	0.0817%	—	62	—	Social Capital Atlas
Membership organisations	21.2	—	95	—	County Health Rankings
Mobility disability	10.6%	—	86	—	CDC PLACES
Mutual-friend share	0.992	—	43·	—	Social Capital Atlas
Net business formation rate	-7.79	—	2·	—	Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Net migration per 100 people staying	-3.17	—	1·	—	IRS county migration flows
No leisure-time physical activity	23.2%	—	76	—	CDC PLACES
Obesity	33.2%	—	84	—	CDC PLACES
Occupied housing units	402	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Orthodox Christian adherents	0	—	78·	—
Other religion adherents	0.51	—	24·	—
Owner-occupied housing units	335	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
People covered by a tax return	1,260	—	—	—	IRS Statistics of Income
People per tax return	2	—	100·	—	IRS Statistics of Income
People who did not move	1,042	—	—	—	IRS county migration flows
Per capita income	$33,497	—	49	—	Census ACS 5-year
Per capita personal income	$73,214	—	88	—	BEA Regional Accounts
Personal income	$100,820k	—	—	—	BEA Regional Accounts
Population	1,377	—	—	—	BEA Regional Accounts
Population	1,397	—	—	—	County Health Rankings
Population aged 15 and over	931	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Population aged 18 and over	980	—	—	—	CDC PLACES
Population aged 25 and over	787	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Population aged 65 and over uncertain	184	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Population below the poverty line	156	—	—	—	Census SAIPE
Population for whom poverty status is determined	1,355	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Population for whom poverty status is determined	1,357	—	—	—	Census SAIPE
Population in the same house one year ago	1,303	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Population with a bachelor's degree or higher uncertain	193	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Population, decennial census	1,372	—	—	—
Poverty rate (model-based)	11.5%	—	66	—	Census SAIPE
Presidential votes cast, 2000	659	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2004	615	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2008	619	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2012	494	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2016	633	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2020	639	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Presidential votes cast, 2024	629	—	—	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Pretrial share of the jail population	61.1%	—	46·	—
Preventable hospital stays	3,145	—	33	—	County Health Rankings
Prison population rate	697	—	59·	—
Private job growth	-4.53	—	5·	—	BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Private jobs	274	—	—	—	BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Public-good pages per 1,000 users	0.0173	—	47	—	Social Capital Atlas
Religious adherents	72.5	—	90·	—
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2000	79.8	—	96·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2004	88.5	—	100·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2008	84.3	—	99·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2012	93.7	—	100·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2016	88.7	—	97·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2020	92	—	100·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican share of the two-party vote, 2024	93.8	—	100·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Republican swing, 2000 to 2024	14.1	—	68·	—	MIT Election Data and Science Lab
Returns claiming charitable contributions	0%	—	5·	—	IRS Statistics of Income
Returns claiming the earned income credit	7.55%	—	5·	—	IRS Statistics of Income
Returns reporting capital gains	24.5%	—	89·	—	IRS Statistics of Income
Returns reporting unemployment compensation	0%	—	9·	—	IRS Statistics of Income
Routine checkup in the past year	71.8%	—	20·	—	CDC PLACES
Self-care disability	2.7%	—	93	—	CDC PLACES
Share aged 65 and over uncertain	13.2%	—	6·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share foreign-born uncertain	9.5%	—	84·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share Hispanic or Latino, any race uncertain	32.2%	—	90·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share in the same house a year ago	93.8%	—	97·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic	0%	—	83·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share never married uncertain	19%	—	3·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share now married	66.5%	—	99·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share of births to unmarried women	0%	—	11·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share of some other race, not Hispanic	0%	—	53·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share White, not Hispanic	67.1%	—	31·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share widowed uncertain	4.51%	—	8·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Share with a bachelor's degree or higher uncertain	24.5%	—	62	—	Census ACS 5-year
Sleeping less than 7 hours	37.6%	—	50	—	CDC PLACES
Social connection score	0.933	—	93·	—
Stroke	2.4%	—	96	—	CDC PLACES
Taking blood pressure medication	55.5%	—	18·	—	CDC PLACES
Tax returns filed	530	—	—	—	IRS Statistics of Income
Tests taken	1,942	—	—	—	Stanford Education Data Archive
Total population	1,389	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Trend in average test score uncertain	0.0435	—	98	—	Stanford Education Data Archive
Unemployed	21	—	—	—	BLS LAUS
Unemployment rate	3.6%	—	43	—	BLS LAUS
Vacancy rate uncertain	20.9%	—	73·	—	Census ACS 5-year
Vacant housing units uncertain	106	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Vision disability	4.1%	—	79	—	CDC PLACES
Women aged 15 to 50	280	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year
Workers aged 16 and over who commute	503	—	—	—	Census ACS 5-year

16of 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.