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Kaufman County / Forney, TX

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Kaufman County lies east of Dallas, and it grew faster in 2025 than every other county in the country. In 1903 a farm north of Terrell became the first privately owned demonstration farm in the country, and the federal agricultural extension service grew out of it. A house costs about three and a half times a typical household income, and the property tax rate is higher than in nine counties out of ten.

Population Growth: ↑7.3%: The county's population grew 7.3% in 2025, faster than all 3,142 other counties. Forney ISD redraws attendance zones every year, so the school at the end of a street can change between one September and the next. >99% of 3,143 counties
Commute Time: 35: A 35-minute average commute, and only 51 counties are longer. TxDOT took a rebuild of US 80 from FM 460 to Spur 557 to a public hearing in Forney in February 2024. >98% of 3,143 counties
Median Home Price: $327K⁴: A median home price of $327K, higher than 81% of counties. Some new houses in the city of Forney stand inside a public improvement district, where a fixed assessment on every lot pays for the district's roads, drainage and parks. >81% of 3,143 counties
Primary Care Physicians: 2.1¹: 2.1 physicians per 10,000 residents, a lower rate than in 84% of counties. In August 2024 Texas Health announced the city of Forney's first full-service hospital. <84% of 3,025 counties
The trade-off — Property Tax: 1.84%: Roughly $6,000 a year in property tax before any exemption, on a $327K median home taxed at 1.84%, a rate higher than in 92% of counties. An owner living in the house can cut the value their school district taxes, and the Kaufman appraisal district charges nothing to file for it. >92% of 3,143 counties

Kaufman County is a county in the northeast area of the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 145,310. Its county seat is Kaufman. Both the county, established in 1848, and the city were named for David S. Kaufman, a U.S. Representative and diplomat from Texas.

Demographics and county data

Each comparison is against the US counties that publish the same measurement. Measurements where too many counties share a single value to be ranked show no comparison at all.

Abortion Regulation: Illegal
ACT/SAT Scores: #48
Air Quality: 8.8¹
Alcohol Regulation: #41
All Occupations: $76K¹
American Indians/Alaskan Natives: ↓-1.6%
Amish, Mennonites, etc: ↑0.3%⁷
Any Airport: 0h 33m
Any Natural Disaster: Low³
Architecture & Engineering: $94K¹⁰
Art Museums: 0
Arts, Design, Sports, Media & Entertainment: $60K¹⁰
Asian Americans: ↓-0.1%
Asian Language Speakers: ↓-0.1%
Avalanche: none³
Average School Rating: 35.8⁶
Beergardens & Brewpubs: 16
Bike Score: 42
Blacks/African Americans: ↑3.7%
Boating: 97
Broadband Internet: 81%
Buddhists: ↑0.2%⁷
Building & Grounds Cleaning & Maintenance: $31K¹⁰
Business & Financial Operations: $80K¹⁰
Cannabis Regulation: Illegal
Cat Friendly Rentals: 66%
Catholics: ↓-8.8%⁷
City Population: 23K
Climate Change Risk: 5.0
Coastal Flooding: none³
Cold Wave: none³
Community & Social Service: $52K¹⁰
Commute Time: 35
Computer & Mathematical: $98K¹⁰
Construction & Extraction: $50K¹⁰
County Population: 158K
Cuisine Diversity: 54
Cycling: 26
Dentists: 4.0
Dog Friendly Rentals: 70%
Drought: Low³
Earthquakes: Very Low³
Education, Training, & Library: $58K¹⁰
Educational Attainment: 27%
Elevation: 436'⁸
English Speakers: ↓-2.4%
Farmers Markets: 0
Farming, Fishing, & Forestry: $36K¹⁰
Fatal Dog Attacks: 0
Fatal Wildlife Attacks: 0
Fire Ants: Fire Ants!
Fishing: 34
Food Preparation & Serving Related: $28K¹⁰
Forests: 29%
Freshwater Access: 131
Gluten-Free Options: 26
Golf: 42
Gun Open Carry Regulation: Legal (Unrestricted)
Hail: Low³
Healthcare Practitioners & Technical: $90K¹⁰
Healthcare Support: $30K¹⁰
Heat Wave: Medium³
High School Graduation Rate: 96%¹
Hiking: 35
Hindus: ↓-0.1%⁷
Hispanics/Latinos: ↑12.8%
History Museums: 1
Home Ownership Rate: 77%
Homelessness: 22
Homicide Rate: 5¹
Hospitals: 1
Hurricanes: Very Low³
Ice Storms: Very Low³
Indo-European Language Speakers: ↓-1.0%
Installation, Maintenance, & Repair: $52K¹⁰
Investment Potential: 76 / 100
Jehovah's Witnesses: ↓-0.4%⁷
Jews: ↓-0.1%⁷
Landslide: Very Low³
LDS / Mormons: ↓-1.4%⁷
Legal: $123K¹⁰
Life Expectancy: 77¹
Life, Physical, & Social Science: $79K¹⁰
Lightning: Very Low³
Live Music: 0
Major Airport: 0h 33m
Major City Proximity: 0h 22m
Major League Baseball: 0h 43m
Major League Soccer: 0h 46m
Management: $120K¹⁰
Median Age: 36 years¹¹
Median Home Price: $327K
Median Rental - 1 BR Apartment: $918
Median Rental - 2 BR Apartment: $1,205
Median Rental - 3 BR Apartment: $1,494
Median Rental - 4 BR Apartment: $1,776
Median Rental - Room: $1,025
Median Rental - Single Family Home: $2,380⁴
Median Rental - Studio Apartment: $826
Mental Health Providers: 9.2
Meth Labs: 0
Michelin Rated Restaurants: none
Minor League Baseball: 3h 09m
Mountains: 315'⁸
Multiracials: ↓-0.3%
Muslims: ↓-0.2%⁷
National Parks: 4h 26m
Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders: ↓-0.1%
NBA Basketball: 0h 27m
NFL Football: 0h 45m
NHL Hockey: 0h 27m
Not Religious / Atheists / Agnostics: ↓-4.0%
Nuclear Strike: Direct Target
Obesity Rate: 40%¹
Office & Administrative Support: $43K¹⁰
Orthodox Christians: ↓-0.2%⁷
Other Language Speakers: ↓-0.1%
Other Relocation Incentives: none
Park Score: 30%⁹
People 0-9 Years Old: ↑2.9%
People 10-19 Years Old: ↑2.5%
People 20-29 Years Old: ↓-0.3%
People 30-39 Years Old: ↑2.7%
People 40-49 Years Old: ↑1.6%
People 50-59 Years Old: ↓-0.8%
People 60-69 Years Old: ↓-3.6%
People 70-79 Years Old: ↓-3.1%
People 80+ Years Old: ↓-2.0%
Performing Arts: 0
Personal Care & Service: $32K¹⁰
Political Orientation: 87% GOP
Population Density: 186
Population Growth: ↑7.3%
Poverty Rate: 9.2%
Primary Care Physicians: 2.9
Private/Home School Regulation: #18
Production: $45K¹⁰
Property Crime Rate: 1,190
Property Tax: 1.84%
Protective Service: $50K¹⁰
Protestants / Non-Denominationals: ↑6.2%⁷
Rain: 39"
Regional Theatre: 0
River Flooding: Medium³
Sales & Related: $47K¹⁰
Sales Tax: 8.3%
Same Sex Households: ↓-0.1%
Scenic Beauty: #22
Seacoast Proximity: 5h 31m
Seasons: 41 °F
Shark Attacks: 0
Single Parent Households: ↓-1.9%
Small or Major Airport: 0h 33m
Smokers: 18%¹
Snow: 1"
Spanish Speakers: ↑8.7%
State Income Tax: 0.0%
Strong Wind: Low³
Summer Heat: 96 °F
Summer Mugginess: Icky
Sunny Days: 232
Termite Infestation: Heavy
Tobacco Regulation: #21
Top School Rating: 60.5⁶
Tornadoes: Medium³
Traffic: 167K
Transportation & Material Moving: $43K¹⁰
Tsunami: none³
Typical Expenses: $124K⁵
Typical Expenses: $98K⁵
Typical Expenses: $90K⁵
Typical Expenses: $88K⁵
Typical Expenses: $64K⁵
Typical Expenses: $78K⁵
Typical Expenses: $64K⁵
Typical Expenses: $108K⁵
Typical Expenses: $48K⁵
Typical Expenses: $126K⁵
Typical Expenses: $76K⁵
Typical Expenses: $85K⁵
Unemployment Rate: 6.5%¹
Vegetarian Friendliness: 50+
Violent Crime Rate: 234²
Volcanic Activity: none³
Walk Score: 60
Water Quality: 2/4
Whites: ↓-14.4%
Wildfires: Low³
Windiness: 15 mph
Wineries: 11
Winter Cold: 55 °F
Winter Weather: Low³

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