Is Blue Mound a good place to live?
Blue Mound’s best subject grades are an A− for incomes and safety. Blue Mound’s July high is 96°F, where Texas’ towns sit at 95°F and U.S. towns at 85°F. Only 8 of the 643 Texas towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Blue Mound. Blue Mound's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 96% of U.S. towns. On history, just 76 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Blue Mound has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Blue Mound stand out
Where Blue Mound beats most towns.
100% of working residents leave Blue Mound for work
Where Blue Mound’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Blue Mound grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Blue Mound is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
AT&T Stadium and 75 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Blue Mound. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw17 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
Big draw34 mi Stadium & arenaCotton Bowl
17 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Texas
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaTexas Stadium
17 mi Stadium & arenaChoctaw StadiumPhoto credits
AT&T Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Globe Life Field: Drone To Fly, CC BY 3.0 · Cotton Bowl: Robbiewest88, Public domain · Six Flags Over Texas: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0 · Texas Stadium: Allspamme, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Choctaw Stadium: KENGRIFFEY24FAN, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Moving to Blue Mound: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Blue Mound, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Blue Mound.
Crime per resident in Blue Mound is lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
Blue Mound’s property crime rate is 3.9 per 1,000 residents, below both Texas’ towns (10.7) and U.S. towns (9.9). The violent crime rate in Blue Mound is 0.9 per 1,000 residents.
| Blue Mound | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 3.9 per 1,000 residents | 10.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 0.9 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Public schools in Blue Mound beat 61% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Eagle Mt-Saginaw ISD. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| L A Gililland ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 503 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Blue Mound’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Blue Mound for work: only 0% work in town. 6.7% of Blue Mound residents live below the poverty line. Jobs based in Blue Mound grew to 441 in 2023, 46 more than in 2013.
| Blue Mound | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 6.7% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $66,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The typical home in Blue Mound is valued at about $213K
The typical Blue Mound home is worth about $213,000, down 1.8% in a year, 28% below the Texas typical home. Blue Mound’s median rent is $1,666 a month.
| Blue Mound | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,666 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 69% | 69% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Blue Mound faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 71% of U.S. communities. Since 1996, 2 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Blue Mound.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Blue Mound has mild winters and hot summers
Blue Mound has mild winters and hot summers. July afternoons reach 96°, January nights drop to 35° and about 2 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Blue Mound is healthier than 52% of U.S. towns
Blue Mound beats the Texas average on 5 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 0. 22% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance in Blue Mound.
| Blue Mound | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 71% | 74% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 35% | 35% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Blue Mound | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 9.1% | 12.5% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 15.7% | 19.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Blue Mound
Colleges nearby
10 within 15 miles of the center of Blue Mound
About 4 of every 100 Blue Mound residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Blue Mound
City in Texas, United States
Blue Mound is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,393 as of the 2020 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Established
- 1957
- Area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Elevation
- 673 ft
- Area code
- 817
Blue Mound’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Blue Mound.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mound | — | — | C+ | A− | B | B− |
| Saginaw | #211 | B− | C− | C+ | B | B |
Blue Mound has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Compare Blue Mound with a neighbor →
Questions about Blue Mound
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Blue Mound, TX expensive?
That is 2.4 years of the area's median household income ($90,275 across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.