Taft SouthwestTX
A town of 1,635.
Is Taft Southwest a good place to live?
Taft Southwest’s best subject grade is a B+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D for health. Taft Southwest has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Taft Southwest has shrunk 11% from 2010 to 2020
1,460 counted in 2010 and 1,296 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Taft Southwest grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Taft Southwest is from typical.
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Moving to Taft Southwest: who provides what
Taft Southwest is unincorporated, so San Patricio 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 Taft Southwest.
A larger share of adults in Taft Southwest have diabetes than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
In Taft Southwest, 73% of adults had a checkup this year. Among 642 Texas towns, just 9 have a lower share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Taft Southwest. Even so, 42% of adults have high blood pressure here, above both the Texas town median (35%) and the median of U.S. towns (35%). Against the Texas average, Taft Southwest comes out ahead on 3 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 19.
| Taft Southwest | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 24% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 13% | 12% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 30% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Taft Southwest | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer binge drinkers | 13.3% | 17% |
| Fewer adults with depression | 17.8% | 21.2% |
| More uninsured adults | 38% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in Taft Southwest fall behind 86% of Texas districts
Public schools: Taft ISD. Its one school is below. Taft Southwest’s only public school teaches 390 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodroe Petty ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 390 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
With only 0.0 jobs per working resident, most people in Taft Southwest work out of town
Half commute less than 14 miles. In Taft Southwest, the average trip to work is 28 minutes, where Texas’ towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. The top destinations are Corpus Christi (33%), Taft (8%) and Portland (8%).
| Taft Southwest | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Natural hazards: high risk in Taft Southwest, mostly hurricanes
FEMA puts 37% of Taft Southwest’s expected hazard losses down to hurricanes, and 29% to inland flooding. On expected storm and flood damage, Taft Southwest sits above 77% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Taft Southwest’s year
The town’s peak summer temperature stands at 93°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
USS Lexington and 4 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Taft Southwest. Close and well known come first.
Big draw11 mi MuseumUSS Lexington
11 mi Zoo & aquariumTexas State Aquarium
31 mi National SeashorePadre Island National Seashore573K visitors a year
11 mi MuseumArt Museum of South Texas
22 mi GardenSouth Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature CenterPhoto credits
USS Lexington: USN, Public domain · Texas State Aquarium: Smcafee87, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Padre Island National Seashore: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain · Art Museum of South Texas: Jim Evans, CC BY-SA 4.0 · South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center: Phil Slattery, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Taft Southwest
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Taft Southwest
About 0 of every 100 Taft Southwest residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
100% of working residents leave Taft Southwest for work
Where Taft Southwest’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Taft Southwest
CDP in Texas, United States
Taft Southwest is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Patricio County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,296 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
Taft Southwest’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Taft Southwest.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taft Southwest | — | — | B+ | — | D | D |
| Taft | #479 | D | B | B | D | D |
Taft Southwest has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Taft Southwest reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Taft Southwest with a neighbor →
Questions about Taft Southwest
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Taft Southwest, 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+.