CombineTX
A town of 2,769, settled in 1895.
Is Combine a good place to live?
Combine grades D overall, 516th of 640 graded towns in Texas, mostly because of schools. Its schools rank behind 81% of the state's. One bright spot: natural-hazard risk is low. Combine’s average trip to work is 39 minutes, above both Texas’ towns (25 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 97% of U.S. towns. Combine's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 100% of U.S. towns.
Combine has grown 44% since 2010
1,942 counted in 2010 and 2,245 in 2020; an estimated 2,769 in 2025.
Growth hasn’t slowed: 25% since 2020, after 15.6% in the decade before.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Combine grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Combine is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Combine: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Combine, 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 Combine.
Combine has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Dallas and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
A typical Combine home is worth about $402K
The typical Combine home is worth about $402,000, up 1.9% in a year, 35% above the Texas typical home. Combine’s median rent is $1,741 a month.
| Combine | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 91% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,741 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Fewer of Combine’s working residents work locally than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
Combine has 115 jobs for its 1,146 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 39.2 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
0.3% of working residents work locally in Combine. Jobs based in Combine grew to 115 in 2023, 92 more than in 2013. 6.3% of residents live below the poverty line in Combine.
| Combine | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 6.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $95,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Work from home | 13% | 9.6% | 11% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Low risk in Combine, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 69% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Residents of Combine are less healthy than 66% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,335 U.S. towns with household incomes like Combine’s, it is less healthy than 86%, so it trails even them.
Combine beats the Texas average on 6 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 8. 18% of Combine adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Combine | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 75% | 74% | 79% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Combine | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 14.1% | 16.4% |
| Fewer adults facing a utility shut-off | 9.3% | 10.7% |
| More adults with COPD | 7.9% | 5.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Combine, expect mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 95.1°, hotter than in 96% of U.S. towns; January nights average 36°.
Combine has mild winters and hot summers. The July high in Combine is 95°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Combine | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 36°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Cotton Bowl and 53 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Combine. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaCotton Bowl
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaAT&T Stadium
Big draw35 mi Stadium & arenaGlobe Life Field
Big draw29 mi Stadium & arenaTexas Stadium
34 mi Theme parkSix Flags Over Texas
35 mi Stadium & arenaChoctaw StadiumPhoto credits
Cotton Bowl: Robbiewest88, Public domain · AT&T Stadium: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Globe Life Field: Drone To Fly, CC BY 3.0 · Texas Stadium: Allspamme, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Six Flags Over Texas: Chris Hagerman from New Port Richey, FL, US, CC BY 2.0 · Choctaw Stadium: KENGRIFFEY24FAN, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Everything we know about Combine
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Combine; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Combine residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
100% of working residents leave Combine for work
Where Combine’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Combine
City in Texas, United States
Combine is a city in Dallas and Kaufman counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 2,245 in 2020.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 7.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 413 ft
- Area code
- 972
Combine’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Combine.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combine | #516 | D | C | — | C− | C |
| Seagoville | #487 | D | C+ | B− | C− | D |
Combine reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Combine with a neighbor →
Questions about Combine
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Combine, TX a good place to live?
Combine grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #516 of 640 in Texas. It grades C for health and C− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Combine, TX expensive?
That is 4.4 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.