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A town of 4,248, settled in 1895.
Falfurrias earns a D, 471st among Texas's 640 graded towns, mostly because of incomes and schools. The median household income is $49K, and 20% of residents live below the poverty line. Its schools rank behind 91% of the state's. What it does well: a typical home costs about $64K, 1.3 years of the Alice area’s $51K median household income. Falfurrias’ average trip to work is 15 minutes, below both Texas’ towns (25 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). On hazard risk, just 26 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Brooks County Courthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Where Falfurrias beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Falfurrias El | 3–5 | 251 |
| Lasater El | PK–K | 156 |
| Falfurrias Innovation Academy | 1–2 | 124 |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Falfurrias is from typical.
Its grades run from A for cost of living (better than 86% of comparable towns) to D− for jobs and income (better than 2%), so the D overall blends very different results.
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Census counts: 6,712 in 1950, 4,609 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1955 and 3 maps from 1921 on.
1 place on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who provides power, water and the rest in Falfurrias, 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Falfurrias.
Falfurrias trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly cold waves) and is a long drive from an emergency room.
Homes are within reach (about $64K for the typical one, A for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 54 miles. At 1.3 years of the Alice area’s $51K median household income, the typical home (about $64K) costs less against local pay than in 99% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its A for cost of living.
39% of Falfurrias households own their home. Typical home values fell 13% in the year to September 2026. Falfurrias’ median rent is $719 a month.
| Falfurrias | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 39% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $719 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Its public schools are run by Brooks County ISD. Two of its 5 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Falfurrias H S, with 370 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falfurrias J HLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 279 | C− |
| Falfurrias H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 370 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
The nearest emergency room, Christus Spohn Hospital Kleberg, is 25.8 miles away in a straight line. Against the 5,471 U.S. towns with household incomes like Falfurrias’s, it is less healthy than 64%, so its D isn’t only a matter of income.
Falfurrias beats the Texas average on 4 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 19. 36% of adults say their health is fair or poor in Falfurrias.
| Falfurrias | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 24% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 13% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 30% | 25% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 18% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Falfurrias | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 13.8% | 17% |
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.4% | 6.1% |
| More uninsured adults | 37.2% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 98% of Texas towns, with expected losses of about $2,134 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Falfurrias is 85 of 100. Since 1978, 144 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Falfurrias.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The Falfurrias weather station, 6 miles away, records that about 160 days a year reach 90°, more than in 99% of U.S. towns. January nights average 46.6°, milder than in 97% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 97.4°.
Falfurrias has warm winters and hot summers. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Falfurrias | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 47°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 97°F | 95°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The average commute for its 1,659 working residents takes 15.4 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
About one in 5 of Falfurrias’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Alice (8%), Corpus Christi (8%) and Laredo (6%).
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
At 15.5 crimes per 1,000 residents a year, it reports less crime than 72% of Texas’s graded towns.
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
0.0 miles of trail in 6 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is West Side Park, at 22 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. West Side Park | — | 22 |
| 2. Ovidio Arevalo Little League Baseball Fields | — | 13 |
| 3. Falfurrias Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
None within 15 miles of Falfurrias; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Falfurrias residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
City in and county seat of Brooks County, Texas, United States
Falfurrias ( fal-FURE-ee-əss) is a city in and the county seat of Brooks County, Texas, United States. Its population was 4,609 at the 2020 census, in a county that in the same census was just over 7,000. The town is named for founder Edward Cunningham Lasater's ranch, La Mota de Falfurrias. In 1893, the Falfurrias ranch was one of the largest in Texas at some 350,000 acres (140,000 ha). The biggest industry in Falfurrias is the United States Border Patrol interior checkpoint south of the city on U.S. Route 281. As an indirect consequence, many migrants seeking to bypass the checkpoint by setting off across the arid land die of exposure and dehydration. Falfurrias and Brooks County were fea…
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Falfurrias grades D overall, better than 12% of U.S. towns and #471 of 640 in Texas. It grades D for health, B for safety and D for schools. Jobs & income is its weak spot, with a D−.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.