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Texas / Castro County

How's Castro County?

One question about Castro County, Texas, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Castro County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$928+2.7%+21.5%+35.3%Lowest quartile2,418 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 214 of 254 in Texas
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives2.9K jobs+15.0%+16.0%+12.3%Lowest quartile2,458 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 171 of 254 in Texas

2 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Castro County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Castro County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.