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Texas / Hays County

How's Hays County?

One question about Hays 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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Hays County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2011 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,090+3.4%+26.9%+51.1%2nd quartile1,160 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 127 of 254 in Texas
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives98.5K jobs+3.0%+37.1%+62.4%Highest quartile307 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 25 of 254 in Texas

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air2011 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days64.0% of days–−14.4 pts–3rd quartile471 of 916 counties in 2011 · 18 of 43 in Texas
Median daily AQI2011 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate44 AQI–+8.0 AQI–2nd quartile455 of 916 counties in 2011 · 26 of 43 in Texas

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Hays 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 Hays 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.