Town of Pecos, Texas

31% of students met the state standard in mathematics and 29% in reading, across the schools here that reported results. Math proficiency and 1 other measure here are published for Reeves County, TX, which contains Town of Pecos, rather than for Town of Pecos alone.

There are 12.9 students for every full-time teacher, fewer than in most measured places. The student-teacher ratio is published for Reeves County, TX, which contains Town of Pecos, rather than for Town of Pecos alone.

The proficiency and staffing figures above are for Reeves County, TX: too few schools in Town of Pecos reported a usable figure on their own to weight one honestly.

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.

Population has fallen 21% since 2020, to 10,224 in 2024.

Permitting has turned upward after moving the other way the year before: 41 units authorized in 2025, up 86% on the prior year.

Population is still rising but the pace is easing: 10,224 residents in 2024, up 0.8% over the year, a smaller gain than the year before. That recent rise has not yet made up the 21% decline since 2020.

New construction is predominantly single-family: of 54 units permitted over the past twelve months, none were in buildings of five or more homes.

Federal tax returns show that people moving in from elsewhere in the US and people moving out roughly balanced across Reeves County, which contains Town of Pecos, in the most recent year. Households that moved in reported an average income of $50,979, below the $63,030 of households that moved out.

At 4.9 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US cities.

People moving in and out

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 Reeves County, TX. IRS Statistics of Income, filing years 2022–2023.

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, drought and strong wind, with inland flooding alone responsible for 52% of it. Strong wind is independently rated low or minimal nationally, so this describes how the loss is composed, not how large that hazard is.

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.

These are deaths, not offenses — they say nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Reeves 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 20.4 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 28.5 per 100,000 residents in Reeves County.

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.

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 Town of Pecos (Reeves County) rather than Town of Pecos itself. They are shown and not scored. How to read death rates.

2 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest Midland Intl Air and Space Port at 87 miles.

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.