Rice TractsTX
A town of 1,384.
Is Rice Tracts a good place to live?
The best of Rice Tracts’ subject grades is an A for incomes; the weakest is a D− for walkability. Rice Tracts’ January low is 51°F, where Texas’ towns sit at 37°F and U.S. towns at 22°F. Only 20 of Texas’ 999 towns score lower on walkability. CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 96% of the country. Rice Tracts has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
1,384 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Rice Tracts grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Rice Tracts is from typical.
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Moving to Rice Tracts: who provides what
Rice Tracts is unincorporated, so Cameron 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 Rice Tracts.
Rice Tracts stands out in Texas and nationally: a larger share of its adults have diabetes
22% of Rice Tracts adults have diabetes, above both the Texas town median (13%) and the median of U.S. towns (12%). 44% of adults have obesity in Rice Tracts. Rice Tracts beats the Texas average on 1 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 20.
| Rice Tracts | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 24% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 13% | 12% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 15% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 30% | 25% |
| What stands out | Rice Tracts | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5% | 6.1% |
| More uninsured adults | 41.3% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Most of Rice Tracts’ workers commute out: the town has 0.2 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Rice Tracts for work: only 0% work in town. Rice Tracts’ median household income is $133,000. Jobs based in Rice Tracts grew to 52 in 2023, 44 more than in 2013.
| Rice Tracts | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $133,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 5.7% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Rice Tracts faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by hurricanes
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 74% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Rice Tracts has mild winters and hot summers
Rice Tracts has warm winters and hot summers. The July high in Rice Tracts is 96°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More children than Texas overall
Children under 18 are 30% of residents (25% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 19% of residents (24% statewide). 32% of Rice Tracts adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 43% and 76% women
The Census survey reached too few of Rice Tracts’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±16.7 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Rice Tracts | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.5% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 19.6% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 5.4% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 13.9% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 7.8% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 18.6% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 14.1% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 0.9% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 9.1% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 29.5% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 28.3% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 2.4% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 7.5% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 15.9% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 16.5% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,400, single groups can be off by several points
Rice Tracts has set aside 0.8% of its land for conservation
0.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Rice Tracts | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | — | 9 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A larger share of households own their home in Rice Tracts than in most of Texas or the rest of the country
Among 643 Texas towns, just 4 have a higher share of households owning their home than Rice Tracts.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Starbase and 9 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Rice Tracts. Close and well known come first.
Big draw28 mi Park & preserveStarbase
15 mi LandmarkFort Brown
13 mi Zoo & aquariumGladys Porter Zoo35 mi Stadium & arenaRobert and Janet Vackar Stadium
36 mi Stadium & arenaBert Ogden Arena
9 mi National Historical ParkPalo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park169K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Starbase: Jared Krahn, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fort Brown: Pi3.124, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Gladys Porter Zoo: Jc161991, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bert Ogden Arena: Wikidude10000, CC0 · Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park: Schmorleitz, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Rice Tracts
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Rice Tracts
About 13 of every 100 Rice Tracts residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
100% of working residents leave Rice Tracts for work
Where Rice Tracts’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Rice Tracts
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Rice Tracts is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Rice Tracts had a population of 733. It is in the southern part of the county, bordered to the north and northeast by Brownsville, to the southeast, south, and southwest by Encantada-Ranchito-El Calaboz, and to the northwest by Palmer. It is 6 miles (10 km) south of San Benito and 15 miles (24 km) northwest of downtown Brownsville. The Resaca del Rancho Viejo, a southeastward-flowing tributary of the Rio Grande, winds through the northern half of the community.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 46 ft
Questions about Rice Tracts
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rice Tracts, TX expensive?
The typical home is worth about $241,000, 19% below the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.