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Texas / Marion County

How's Marion County?

One question about Marion 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.

Compare with every other county: climate

Marion County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 2000 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$925+10.0%+34.2%+62.6%Lowest quartile2,434 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 215 of 254 in Texas
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives2.2K jobs−2.6%+12.9%+10.3%Lowest quartile2,649 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 183 of 254 in Texas

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air2000 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days58.6% of days−0.1 pts––3rd quartile444 of 756 counties in 2000 · 16 of 25 in Texas
Median daily AQI2000 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate45 AQI−1.0 AQI––2nd quartile324 of 756 counties in 2000 · 9 of 25 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 Marion 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 Marion 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.