Andrews, Texas

Area Profile

13,468 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Andrews, in Andrews County.

65out of 100
Area Score
Top 29% of 4,196 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks

Data updated · 13 sources
OpportunityTop 29% of 4,199 cities measured67
Schools2,198th of 4,162 cities measured48
GrowthTop 2% of 4,224 cities measured85
Housing affordabilityTop 4% of 4,218 cities measured87
Climate3,296th of 4,225 cities measured62
Physical resilience2,705th of 4,226 cities measured45
Access3,216th of 4,226 cities measured82
Economic stability3,018th of 4,226 cities measured45
The quick read

Unemployment is 3.8% and median household income $73,690, putting employment conditions in the middle range of cities measured. The unemployment rate is published for Andrews County, TX, which contains Andrews, rather than for Andrews alone.

In the public schools here, 52% of students met the state standard in mathematics, with 15.4 students for every teacher.

Development activity is both elevated and accelerating — 163 housing units permitted over the past twelve months, up 270% on the prior year.

These sentences are written by fixed rules from the measurements below — a statement appears because a number crossed a stated threshold, and the values behind it are stored with it. No figure anywhere on this site is invented, estimated or inferred to fill a gap. How this works.

At a glance

Population
13,468
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$73,690
Top 41% nationally
Density
1,938/sq mi
7 sq mi of land
Median age
33.4
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Texas
Micro area
Nearest major airport
MAF
33 mi · Midland Intl Air and Space Port
Median home value
$196,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment across Andrews County, TX, which contains Andrews, is 3.8%, lower than in 69% of the 4,226 measured US cities.

Employment across Andrews County, TX, which contains Andrews, grew 0.4% over the past year, to 9,689 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Income of new arrivalsAndrews County, TX’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$60,56928th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Income of those who leftAndrews County, TX’s figurefiling years 2022–2023$65,30535th percentileof 4,101filing years 2022–2023
Median household income ±$14,3222024 ACS 5-Year$73,690Top 41%of 29,2232024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,2002024 ACS 5-Year$35,160Top 46%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate ±6%2024 ACS 5-Year16.7%Bottom 30%of 31,7732024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute ±2.6 min2024 ACS 5-Year22.4 minTop 28%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year18.5%Bottom 44%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Drove alone to work ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year87.7%82nd percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
EmploymentAndrews County, TX’s figureJuly 20269,689Bottom 3%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (3 years)Andrews County, TX’s figureJuly 2026+4.1%Top 9%of 4,226July 2026
Employment change (year over year)Andrews County, TX’s figureJuly 2026+0.4%Top 29%of 4,226July 2026
Labor forceAndrews County, TX’s figureJuly 202610,0672nd percentileof 4,226July 2026
Labor force participation ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year75.9%Bottom 42%of 31,5132024 ACS 5-Year
Public transit to work ±0.4%2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year
Unemployment change (year over year)Andrews County, TX’s figureJuly 2026+0.5%Bottom 19%of 4,226July 2026
Unemployment rateAndrews County, TX’s figureJuly 20263.8%Top 31%of 4,226July 2026
Worked from home ±2%2024 ACS 5-Year3.2%27th percentileof 31,4332024 ACS 5-Year

Median household income, successive ACS releases

202120222023202487k74k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $73,690 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Andrews County, TX, which contains this city.

52% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 41% in reading, across the schools here that reported results.

There are 15.4 students for every full-time teacher across 6 public schools, fewer than in most measured places.

Public schools
6
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
15.4
across all schools here
Math proficiency
51.9%
Top 42% in Texas
Reading proficiency
41.2%
Bottom 31% in Texas
All 6 public schools on record, largest first.
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Andrews H SANDREWS ISD1,19314.265%43%
Andrews MiddleANDREWS ISD97016.745%36%
Clearfork ElANDREWS ISD72115.7——
Devonian ElANDREWS ISD64916.249%46%
Underwood ElANDREWS ISD63815.941%41%
Andrews Education CenterANDREWS ISD387.6——

52.3% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with, not how the schools perform, so it is shown and not scored.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data, placed by ZIP code — which schools are in this place, not which one a particular address is zoned for. A dash in a proficiency column is a gap in the federal file, not a bad result. Proficiency is measured against Texas’s own standard, so it is ranked within state. How to read school figures.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency’s house price index for the non-metropolitan parts of Texas is up 44% over five years, and up 2.9% over the last year. It follows repeat sales of the same homes, so it measures price change rather than which homes happened to sell.

Homeowners here who pay a tax bill pay a median of $2,665 a year in real estate taxes, about 1.36% of the median home value.

HUD’s Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom, set near the 40th percentile of recent new leases, is $1,425, close to the $1,350 tenants already here pay.

At HUD’s Fair Market Rent of $1,425 a month for a two-bedroom, keeping rent to 30% of income takes a household income of about $57,000 a year, about 77% of the median household income here of $73,690.

The typical renter household here spends 24% of its income on rent, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened. Median gross rent runs $1,350 a month.

A median home at $196,300 costs 2.6 times the median income of its owner-occupied households, $74,683, close to the historic benchmark for an affordable market.

Rent as a share of income
23.6%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
2.6×
median home value ÷ owner household income
Market rent, two bedroom
$1,425
what a new lease costs · FY2026
Median gross rent
$1,350
what tenants now pay · 2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$196,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

The figures above are measured against Andrews’s median household income of $73,690, which describes the place rather than you. Enter your own and the ratio is recomputed against it. It stays in this browser.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Home price change (1 year)the non-metropolitan parts of Texas’s figure2026 Q2+2.9%47th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (5 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Texas’s figure2026 Q2+43.8%53rd percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price change (10 years)the non-metropolitan parts of Texas’s figure2026 Q2+97.6%57th percentileof 4,1542026 Q2
Home price to income ±0.62024 ACS 5-Year2.6Bottom 45%of 26,8152024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate ±5%2024 ACS 5-Year76.7%51st percentileof 31,7172024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±2152024 ACS 5-Year5,13889th percentileof 32,1772024 ACS 5-Year
Market rent, one bedroomFY2026$1,300Top 45%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, three bedroomFY2026$1,709Top 30%of 4,072FY2026
Market rent, two bedroomFY2026$1,425Top 36%of 4,072FY2026
Median gross rent ±$2302024 ACS 5-Year$1,350Bottom 25%of 23,1202024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$14,9372024 ACS 5-Year$196,30052nd percentileof 29,1112024 ACS 5-Year
Median property taxes ±$2632024 ACS 5-Year$2,66568th percentileof 26,4402024 ACS 5-Year
Owner household income ±$15,0252024 ACS 5-Year$74,683Bottom 44%of 27,5482024 ACS 5-Year
Property tax rate ±0.17%2024 ACS 5-Year1.36%72nd percentileof 20,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income ±8%2024 ACS 5-Year23.6%Top 27%of 22,9502024 ACS 5-Year
Seasonal and second homes ±232024 ACS 5-Year01st percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Second homes2024 ACS 5-Year0.0%1st percentileof 31,8952024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate2024 ACS 5-Year2.8%25th percentileof 31,7692024 ACS 5-Year
Vacant housing units ±962024 ACS 5-Year14272nd percentileof 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year

These measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with. They compare housing cost with local earnings only: transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not in them. How to read affordability, the two rent figures.

Development Momentum

85/ 100
Top 2% of 4,224 published city profiles
Permitting has been rising for the last 3 years of a series running from 2022 to 2025. That is the direction of the recent run. The chart below compares the first year with the last, which can point the other way.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has grown 1% since 2020, reaching 13,677 in 2024.

Permit activity rose in each of the 3 calendar years through 2025.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 13,677 residents in 2024, up 1.1% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 163 units permitted over the past twelve months, only 3% are in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show Andrews County, which contains Andrews, lost about 0.3% of its residents through moves within the US in the most recent year, counting those who arrived against those who left. Households that moved in reported an average income of $60,569, below the $65,305 of households that moved out.

At 12.1 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
163
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
12.1
Top 8% nationally
Year over year
+270%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
3.1%
units in 5+ unit buildings

Population, annual estimates

2020202120222023202414k13k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population. It has been rising for the last 2 years, over a series running from 2020 to 2024.

People moving in and out

Net migration
−0.3%
of residents, in a year
Arrivals from another state
29%
of people moving in
Income of arrivals
$60,569
average per tax return
Income of those who left
$65,305
average per tax return

Where newcomers came from

  1. Ector County, TX 98 people · 12% of arrivals
  2. Midland County, TX 91 people · 11% of arrivals
  3. Lubbock County, TX 42 people · 5.2% of arrivals

Where people who left went

  1. Midland County, TX 167 people · 19% of departures
  2. Ector County, TX 144 people · 17% of departures
  3. Lubbock County, TX 55 people · 6.4% of departures

Based on the address on federal tax returns, compared with the same filers a year earlier. It counts people who file, and sees a move only when the address on a return changes. Domestic moves only: people arriving from abroad are left out. This is the figure for Andrews County, TX. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

Housing units permitted per year

20222023202420259324
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was higher than 2022 (+288%).

Weather & climate

5 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 96°F and January a low of 31°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 14.0 inches, including 1.7 inches of snow.

20°40°60°80°100°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station ANDREWS, 1.9 miles from this location.

Precipitation

JFMAMJJASOND2.4"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation1991-2020 Normals14.0"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall1991-2020 Normals1.7"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low1991-2020 Normals31°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high1991-2020 Normals96°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months1991-2020 Normals51991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing1991-2020 Normals37°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. How to read climate and air quality.

Physical risk

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Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, drought and hail, with inland flooding alone responsible for 32% of it. Inland flooding is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

DroughtHigh
HailElevated
WildfireElevated
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: ice storm, winter weather, lightning, strong wind, tornado, cold wave, hurricane, earthquake, inland flooding, landslide, tsunami, volcanic activity, avalanche, coastal flooding.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

Violent crime
219
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
787
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offenses, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Andrews's police department reported 219 violent offenses per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 787.

Andrews County records 0.0 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, lower than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at about 16.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, since the figure counts suicides and accidents as well as homicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at about 13.7 per 100,000 residents in Andrews County.

Homicide
0.0
per 100,000 residents
Firearm deaths, all intents
16.8
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Drug overdose
13.7
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured
Suicide
17.4
per 100,000 residents · modeled, not measured

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides, so the firearm figure and the homicide figure above it count some of the same deaths twice over. They overlap and should not be added together.

Offenses are reported to the FBI by Andrews’s own police department and shown only where it reported every month of the year; a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime is what police recorded, which is not the same as what happened. Death rates are crude rates — deaths divided by population, not adjusted for age — except where a count was too small for the CDC to publish and it modeled the rate, which the card marks. They come from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC by county and not below it. So they describe the county around Andrews (Andrews County) rather than Andrews itself. Neither is part of the Area Score. How to read crime rates and death rates.

What this profile does not cover

Each of these is absent for a reason, not by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them; the weighting is on the methodology page.

Cost of living
Price parities are published for metropolitan areas, and this place lies outside one.
Air quality
The EPA publishes an air-quality index only where a monitor sits. There is none in this county, and a modeled value would be a different kind of number from the measured ones everywhere else on this page.
Taxes
Income and sales taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Property taxes are shown in the housing section but are not part of the score. Cost of living is published where the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures it, though not for this place. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house.

Access

3 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Midland Intl Air and Space Port at 33 miles.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Broadband access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year89.7%Top 50%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
Distance to major airportNASR current cycle33 miBottom 24%of 4,226NASR current cycle
Major airports within 100 milesNASR current cycle3Bottom 20%of 4,226NASR current cycle
No internet access ±4%2024 ACS 5-Year7.9%Bottom 47%of 31,5882024 ACS 5-Year
AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Midland Intl Air and Space PortMAF33 mi9,501 ft
Lea County RgnlHOB46 mi8,000 ft
Big Spring/Mc Mahon-WrinkleBPG61 mi8,803 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource period
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle
SafetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar year
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)
Demographics, IncomeInternal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income Division
U.S. Population Migration Data (county to county)
filing years 2022–2023
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 Normals
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026
Access, Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-Year
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimate
SafetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
March 2025 to February 2026; May 2025 to April 2026
SchoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2018-19 school year; 2024-25 school year
HousingU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Fair Market Rents
FY2026
HousingU.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency
House Price Index (traditional, all-transactions)
2026 Q2
Current conditionsNOAA National Weather Service
National Weather Service current conditions
Live observation, read when the page opens

Profile recalculated October 8, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology, or every source with how often each updates.

ZIP codes in Andrews

1 ZIP area

Every ZIP area in Andrews with census figures of its own, largest first. The ones linked below diverge enough from the city as a whole to carry a full profile; the rest track Andrews closely, so their figures are here rather than on a page that would repeat this one. An Area Score is calculated for published profiles only, which is why it is blank on those rows.

ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeMedian home valueArea Score
7971418,610$72,242$195,700—