MikesTX
A town of 1,688.
Is Mikes a good place to live?
The best of Mikes’ subject grades is an A+ for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for walkability. Mikes’ January low is 49°F, above both Texas’ towns (37°F) and U.S. towns (22°F). On walkability, just 1 of Texas’ 999 towns do worse. Residents are less healthy than 93% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. On the outdoors, just 34 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Mikes has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Mikes for work
Where Mikes’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Mikes grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Mikes is from typical.
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Moving to Mikes: who provides what
Mikes is unincorporated, so Starr 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 Mikes.
Mikes stands out in Texas and nationally: a larger share of its adults worry about having enough food
49% of Mikes adults worry about having enough food, above both the Texas town median (20%) and the median of U.S. towns (14%). 38% of Mikes adults say their health is fair or poor. Mikes beats the Texas average on 1 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 17.
| Mikes | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 24% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 45% | 30% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 49% | 20% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 18% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Mikes | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 3.4% | 6.1% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 49.3% | 19.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Mikes’ workers commute out
Most working residents leave Mikes for work: only 0% work in town. The average trip to work in Mikes is 18 minutes. The top destinations are Rio Grande City (17%), McAllen (10%) and Edinburg (6%).
| Mikes | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 18 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 20% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.3% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Mikes, a typical July afternoon runs hotter than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
Mikes’ July high is 99°F. Mikes has warm winters and hot summers, with very little rain.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Moderate risk in Mikes, with cold waves at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 57% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Mikes
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Mikes; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Mikes residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Mikes’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Mikes.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikes | — | — | A+ | — | C | D |
| La Paloma Ranchettes | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Mikes has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Mikes reports no FBI crime data of its own. La Paloma Ranchettes isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Mikes with a neighbor →
Questions about Mikes
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Mikes, 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 A+.