LopezvilleTX
2,227 people call this town in Texas home.
Is Lopezville a good place to live?
Lopezville’s best subject grade is a B+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D for health. 30% of residents live below the poverty line in Lopezville, where Texas’ towns sit at 12% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. Only 9 of the 643 Texas towns we compare have a lower share of working residents who work in town than Lopezville. Lopezville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Lopezville has shrunk 45% from 2010 to 2020
4,333 counted in 2010 and 2,367 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Lopezville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Lopezville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Lopezville: who provides what
Lopezville is unincorporated, so Hidalgo 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 Lopezville.
Lopezville is less healthy than nine in ten U.S. towns
41% of Lopezville adults get no exercise outside work. CDC measures, 31 in all: Lopezville beats Texas on 1 and trails on 18.
| Lopezville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 24% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 13% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 30% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Lopezville | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4% | 6.1% |
| More uninsured adults | 41.2% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lopezville has 0.1 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
The top destinations are McAllen (24%), Edinburg (18%) and Pharr (16%). In Lopezville, the middle household income is $38,000. The median commute is under 6 miles.
| Lopezville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $38,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Lopezville’s year
July afternoons reach 97°, January nights drop to 50° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Lopezville has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from hurricanes
In Lopezville, the FEMA risk score is 61 of 100. Expected losses in Lopezville break down as 49% from hurricanes and 22% from cold waves.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Open space protected for good: 1.9% of Lopezville
0.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. One park or preserve covers 5 acres in Lopezville.
| Lopezville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.9% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lopezville Park | — | 5 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Bert Ogden Arena and 5 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lopezville. Close and well known come first.
in town Stadium & arenaBert Ogden Arena3 mi Stadium & arenaRobert and Janet Vackar Stadium
10 mi Stadium & arenaPayne Arena4 mi MuseumMuseum of South Texas History
6 mi GardenMcAllen Botanical Gardens
11 mi TheatreBorder TheaterPhoto credits
Bert Ogden Arena: Wikidude10000, CC0 · Payne Arena: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · McAllen Botanical Gardens: Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University, United States, CC BY 3.0 us · Border Theater: Andres Gonzalez, CC BY-SA 4.0
Everything we know about Lopezville
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Lopezville
About 2 of every 100 Lopezville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
100% of working residents leave Lopezville for work
Where Lopezville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Lopezville’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Lopezville.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lopezville | — | — | B+ | — | B− | D |
| Pharr | #492 | D | C | C+ | B− | D |
| Edinburg | #560 | D | D | C | B− | C |
| Murillo | #573 | D | C+ | — | B− | D |
| San Juan | #498 | D | C+ | C+ | B− | D |
Lopezville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Lopezville and Murillo report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lopezville with a neighbor →
Questions about Lopezville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lopezville, TX expensive?
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 B+.