Southwest SandhillTX
With 1,143 residents, it is a town in Texas.
Is Southwest Sandhill a good place to live?
The best of Southwest Sandhill’s subject grades is an A+ for cost of living; the weakest is a C− for health. Only 25 of Texas’ 998 towns score higher on cost of living. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 81% of U.S. towns. Southwest Sandhill has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Southwest Sandhill stand out
Where Southwest Sandhill beats most towns.
1,143 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Southwest Sandhill grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Southwest Sandhill is from typical.
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Moving to Southwest Sandhill: who provides what
Southwest Sandhill is unincorporated, so Ward 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 Southwest Sandhill.
Southwest Sandhill has 1.5 jobs for every working resident, and 983 people commute in
Southwest Sandhill’s average trip to work comes in at 17 minutes. Just 7% of the town’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 220, to 1,031. Half of commuters travel less than 35 miles.
| Southwest Sandhill | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 17 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Public schools in Southwest Sandhill fall behind 52% of Texas districts
Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transformative Leadership Academy PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 106 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
On CDC estimates, Southwest Sandhill is less healthy than 83% of U.S. towns
16% of Southwest Sandhill adults report frequent physical distress. Among adults 18 to 64 locally, 24% have no health insurance, against 18% in Texas’ towns and 8.1% across U.S. towns. In Southwest Sandhill, 27% of adults say their health is fair or poor, and 73% had a checkup this year.
| Southwest Sandhill | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 30% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 27% | 24% | 19% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 74% | 79% |
| What stands out | Southwest Sandhill | TX |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.7% | 12.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 7.5% | 5.7% |
| More smokers | 16.3% | 12.5% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Southwest Sandhill has a low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
FEMA puts just over half of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 9% to hail. Southwest Sandhill’s FEMA risk score is 24 of 100, where Texas’ towns sit at 47 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100. Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 76% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Expect mild winters and hot summers in Southwest Sandhill
In Southwest Sandhill, the midsummer high is 98°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
0% of Southwest Sandhill is conserved land
3.8 miles of trail. Southwest Sandhill’s concentration of trails stands at 0.5 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Southwest Sandhill
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Southwest Sandhill; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Southwest Sandhill residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Every workday, about 983 people come to Southwest Sandhill for work
Where Southwest Sandhill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Southwest Sandhill
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Southwest Sandhill is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Ward County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Southwest Sandhill had a population of 1,666. It is in the northeastern part of the county, bordered to the north by Thorntonville and Monahans. Interstate 20 passes through the northern part of the CDP, leading northeast 37 miles (60 km) to Odessa and west-southwest 36 miles (58 km) to Pecos. Texas State Highway 18 runs along the eastern side of the CDP, leading north through Monahans 25 miles (40 km) to Kermit and south 47 miles (76 km) to Fort Stockton .
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- Area
- 7.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 2,598 ft
Questions about Southwest Sandhill
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Southwest Sandhill, 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+.