Liberty CityTX
A town of 2,648. Public schools that outperform most of Texas.
Is Liberty City a good place to live?
Liberty City grades C+ overall, 280th among Texas's 640 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its schools rank ahead of 76% of Texas towns. On the other side, the median household income is $63K, and 17% of residents live below the poverty line. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. On history, just 98 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. 17% of residents live below the poverty line in Liberty City, against 12% in Texas’ towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns.
What makes Liberty City stand out
Where Liberty City beats most towns.
Liberty City has grown 16% from 2010 to 2020
2,351 counted in 2010 and 2,721 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Liberty City grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Liberty City is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Liberty City: who provides what
Liberty City is unincorporated, so Gregg County and regional agencies provide most services.
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 Liberty City.
Liberty City has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns, is healthier than towns with similar incomes and has property taxes about half the Texas norm.
Liberty City has set aside 0.1% of its land for conservation
Trails total 5.3 miles in 1 park or preserve. The concentration of trails for Liberty City comes to 0.9 miles per square mile. The town has one park or preserve, 6 acres in all.
| Liberty City | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.9 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Hugh Camp Memorial Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For schools, Liberty City earns an A−
Sabine ISD runs its public schools. The largest public high school is Sabine H S, with 456 students. Two of the 4 schools are below, and why each made the list.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabine ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 618 | B+ |
| Sabine H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 456 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
With only 0.7 jobs per working resident, most people in Liberty City work out of town
Commuting out is the norm in Liberty City: 8% of working residents work locally. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs here rose by 83, to 830. The average commute locally is 22 minutes. The top destinations are Longview (21%), Kilgore (14%) and Tyler (4%).
| Liberty City | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $63,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Liberty City, expect mild winters and hot summers
The Longview #2 weather station, 14 miles away, records that about 111 days a year reach 90°, more than in 95% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 93.6°: hotter than most of the country, but cooler than 76% of Texas places with climate records; January nights average 36.4°.
For Liberty City, the July high is 94°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Liberty City | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 94°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 36°F | 37°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The biggest natural risk in Liberty City is tornadoes, at a low overall level
Liberty City’s risk rating from FEMA is 33 of 100. 37% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from tornadoes, followed by inland flooding at 25%. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 67% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The typical home in Liberty City: about $254K
The median property tax bill is $1,660, against $4,232 across Texas, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Liberty City: nearly four in five households are owner-occupiers. In Liberty City, the rent at the middle of the market is $1,218 a month.
| Liberty City | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 79% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,218 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Residents of Liberty City are healthier than 55% of U.S. towns
Against the 9,602 U.S. towns with household incomes like Liberty City’s, it is healthier than 78%, so its B isn’t only a matter of income.
Among adults in Liberty City, 11% worry about having enough food and 18% binge drink. On the CDC’s 31 measures, Liberty City is ahead of Texas on 8 and behind on 5. The share of adults in Liberty City who have been diagnosed with depression: 26%.
| Liberty City | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 22% | 23% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 20% | 14% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 30% | 25% |
| What stands out | Liberty City | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.3% | 19.3% |
| Fewer uninsured adults | 11.7% | 19.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.7% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Liberty City
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Liberty City
About 7 of every 100 Liberty City residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
92% of working residents leave Liberty City for work
Where Liberty City’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Liberty City
Neighborhood of Kilgore, United States
Liberty City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Gregg County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,721 at the 2020 census, an increase over the figure of 2,351 tabulated in 2010.
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- Area
- 6.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 390 ft
- Area code
- 903
Questions about Liberty City
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Liberty City, TX a good place to live?
Liberty City grades C+ overall, better than 35% of U.S. towns and #280 of 640 in Texas. It grades B for health and A− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Liberty City, TX expensive?
That is 3.8 years of the area's median household income ($66,647 across the Longview, 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+.