Lipscomb County, TX

County

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2024 Population
2,918
2024 Poverty Rate
11.5%
15.6% 1-year decrease
2024 Median Household Income
$72,560
1.56% 1-year growth

About

N/A of the households in Lipscomb County, TX reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.

Most people in Lipscomb County, TX drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 19.9 minutes. The average car ownership in Lipscomb County, TX was N/A per household.

Economy

Unemployment Insurance Claims

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Median Earnings by Industry

The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2024 are Wholesale Trade ($90,104), Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($71,458), and Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($60,938).

The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2024 are Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($108,056), Public Administration ($48,409), and Retail Trade ($43,750).

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Payroll by Industry Sector

The industries with the highest total annual payroll
  1. $7.68k
    Transportation and Warehousing
  2. $7.53k
    Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
  3. $3.82k
    Retail Trade

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Housing & Living

People in Lipscomb County, TX have an average commute time of 19.9 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Lipscomb County, TX is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of N/A per household.

Household Income

Please note that the buckets used in this visualization were not evenly distributed by ACS when publishing the data.
$72,560
Median Household Income
± $7,053
N/A
Number of Households
± N/A

The following chart displays the households in Lipscomb County, TX distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the N/A range.

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Wage Distribution

The closest comparable wage GINI for Lipscomb County, TX is from Texas.
0.475
2023 Wage GINI in Texas
0.476
2022 Wage GINI in Texas

In 2023, the income inequality in Texas was 0.475 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.208% decline from 2022 to 2023, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for Texas was approximately the same as than the national average of N/A. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Texas in comparison to the national average.

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Commuter Transportation

Most Common Commute in 2024
  1. Drove Alone (81.9%)
  2. Carpooled (14.1%)
  3. Worked At Home (2.1%)

In 2024, 81.9% of workers in Lipscomb County, TX drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (14.1%) and those who worked at home (2.1%).

The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.

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Commute Time

19.9 minutes
Average Travel Time

Using averages, employees in Lipscomb County, TX have a similar commute time (19.9 minutes) than the normal US worker (N/A minutes). Additionally, N/A% of the workforce in Lipscomb County, TX have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.

The chart below shows how the median household income in Lipscomb County, TX compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.

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Poverty & Diversity

11.5% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Lipscomb County, TX (328 out of 2.86k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 12.5%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 35 - 44, followed by Females 55 - 64 and then Females 6 - 11.

The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Lipscomb County, TX is N/A, followed by N/A and N/A.

The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.

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Children in Poverty

In 2025, 16.9% of the children was living in poverty in Lipscomb County, TX. From 2014 to 2025, the indicator grew 1%.

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Health

81.9% of the population of Lipscomb County, TX has health coverage, with 40.8% on employee plans, 13.6% on Medicaid, 14.3% on Medicare, 11.5% on non-group plans, and 1.64% on military or VA plans.

By gender, of the total number of insured persons, N/A were men and N/A were women.

Uninsured People

18.1%
Uninsured
40.8%
Employer Coverage
13.6%
Medicaid
14.3%
Medicare
11.5%
Non-Group
1.64%
Military or VA

The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Lipscomb County, TX changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.

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