The 10 Most Boring Places In Texas For 2023


The most boring places in Texas are Sunnyvale and Heath for 2023 based on Saturday Night Science.

There’s no denying it: there are plenty of places in Texas that are downright beautiful and full of excitement.

Unfortunately, not all towns and cities in Lone Star State are so lucky.

Just like in all U.S. States, there are definitely some boring places within Texas’s’ borders. You know the places where everyone has an AARP card and the most exciting thing they do all day is post a picture of their grandchild on Facebook.

Like Sunnyvale, for instance. In our latest analysis, we found that this city was the most boring city in all of Oklahoma according to Saturday Night Science. But don’t feel bad if you’re a resident of Sunnyvale. There are plenty of other boring, lackluster places in Texas as well.

Here they are. Try not to jump out of your seat with excitement.

Don’t freak out, in fact, believe it not, a boring city is actually one a lot of people would like to call home.

Before you get all upset if your city’s name is on the list, rest assured that we didn’t use personal opinion when it comes to what classifies a city or town as “boring” or “exciting”. We crunched actual numbers to figure out which towns are statistically more boring.

Showing this data to you is the kind of thing that a real estate agent knows, but would never share.

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Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Summary | Table


The 10 Most Boring Places In Texas For 2023

Sunnyvale, TX

Source: Wikipedia User nthomas76207 | CC BY 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10
Population: 7,873
Average Age: 43.1
% Married: 31.0%
More on Sunnyvale: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Heath, TX

Source: Wikipedia User nthomas76207 | CC BY 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10
Population: 9,771
Average Age: 43.2
% Married: 33.0%
More on Heath: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

6
/10
Population: 7,746
Average Age: 46.5
% Married: 29.0%
More on Lucas: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

8
/10
Population: 5,055
Average Age: 40.9
% Married: 30.0%
More on Willow Park: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

8
/10
Population: 7,868
Average Age: 36.0
% Married: 51.0%
More on Mont Belvieu: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10
Population: 5,827
Average Age: 53.7
% Married: 33.0%
More on Bulverde: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Santa Fe, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Nsaum75 | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

5
/10
Population: 12,792
Average Age: 42.7
% Married: 33.0%
More on Santa Fe: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

6
/10
Population: 13,613
Average Age: 41.3
% Married: 39.0%
More on Lumberton: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Helotes, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Larry D. Moore | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10
Population: 9,140
Average Age: 44.6
% Married: 32.0%
More on Helotes: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Floresville, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Billy Hathorn | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

5
/10
Population: 7,440
Average Age: 38.1
% Married: 45.0%
More on Floresville: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Methodology: How we determined the boring cities in the Lone Star State

You would present the following case to your friends if you were argueing with them at a bar about the most boring place to live in Texas. And that’s why we call it Saturday Night Science.

Because our data speaks more truth than feelings.

To figure out how boring a place is, we factored in things we generally think make people exciting, and then we figure out which cities have the least number of those exciting people.

We used the U.S. American Community Census data to gather the information presented here. HSome of the things people tend to think of as making a city’s population boring include:

  • % of Population Over 25 (higher is more boring)
  • % of Married Household (higher is more boring)
  • Average Age (higher is more boring)
  • % of Households With Kids (higher is more boring)
  • Population density (lower is more boring)

Then, our algorithm generates a ranking for each place in these categories. After crunching the numbers, all of the cities ranked from most boring to most exciting.

For this ranking, we used every Texas city with at least 5,000 residents. This keeps us from prejudicing our rankings by including very small pockets of retired people.

Grab your rocker and hold on.

We updated this article for 2023, and it’s our tenth time ranking the most boring cities in Texas.

There You Have It – Now That You’re Asleep

On a ranking like this, there are usually no winners, but since Texas isn’t necessarily the most boring state in the United States, the cities on this ranking can at least take solace that there are, in fact, more boring cities in the country.

If you’re also curious enough, here are the most exciting places in Texas, according to science:

  1. College Station
  2. San Marcos
  3. Prairie View

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Detailed List Of The Most Boring Cities In Texas For 2023

Rank City Population Average Age % Married % Kids
1 Sunnyvale, TX 7,873 43.1 31.0% 46.5%
2 Heath, TX 9,771 43.2 33.0% 42.5%
3 Lucas, TX 7,746 46.5 29.0% 38.9%
4 Willow Park, TX 5,055 40.9 30.0% 38.1%
5 Mont Belvieu, TX 7,868 36.0 51.0% 42.1%
6 Bulverde, TX 5,827 53.7 33.0% 18.2%
7 Santa Fe, TX 12,792 42.7 33.0% 29.6%
8 Lumberton, TX 13,613 41.3 39.0% 30.7%
9 Helotes, TX 9,140 44.6 32.0% 37.1%
10 Floresville, TX 7,440 38.1 45.0% 39.8%
11 Aledo, TX 5,053 37.4 41.0% 42.3%
12 Silsbee, TX 6,904 41.7 37.0% 33.0%
13 Granbury, TX 11,218 52.0 31.0% 22.0%
14 Red Oak, TX 14,853 36.2 30.0% 46.9%
15 Lampasas, TX 7,377 39.2 30.0% 40.1%
16 Vidor, TX 9,806 40.7 38.0% 28.4%
17 Lockhart, TX 14,463 38.6 31.0% 33.6%
18 Rockport, TX 10,265 54.6 31.0% 19.3%
19 Monahans, TX 7,595 35.5 37.0% 44.9%
20 Rusk, TX 5,344 39.7 19.0% 41.0%
21 Midlothian, TX 35,460 35.5 35.0% 46.1%
22 Luling, TX 5,455 50.3 31.0% 23.0%
23 White Oak, TX 6,227 35.5 36.0% 35.4%
24 Burnet, TX 6,464 39.9 30.0% 25.1%
25 Parker, TX 5,573 43.8 14.0% 55.2%
26 Woodway, TX 9,399 42.7 37.0% 30.1%
27 Atlanta, TX 5,453 40.1 27.0% 29.0%
28 Sealy, TX 6,837 38.0 27.0% 35.8%
29 Giddings, TX 5,017 40.2 23.0% 38.3%
30 Port Isabel, TX 5,137 39.7 27.0% 33.2%
31 Buda, TX 14,997 36.8 36.0% 46.9%
32 Celina, TX 21,501 36.1 23.0% 53.2%
33 Fair Oaks Ranch, TX 9,917 45.8 28.0% 30.2%
34 Edna, TX 5,985 38.3 35.0% 39.9%
35 Sulphur Springs, TX 16,033 39.4 32.0% 32.2%
36 Taylor, TX 16,449 40.6 30.0% 29.6%
37 La Marque, TX 18,464 39.6 29.0% 33.6%
38 Manvel, TX 11,265 35.7 30.0% 39.9%
39 Lindale, TX 6,174 37.2 33.0% 39.9%
40 Bastrop, TX 9,955 40.7 29.0% 23.7%
41 Rockwall, TX 47,859 38.6 28.0% 43.5%
42 Port Neches, TX 13,635 39.0 40.0% 34.2%
43 Robinson, TX 12,470 34.8 37.0% 44.6%
44 Kennedale, TX 8,590 42.7 26.0% 32.3%
45 Azle, TX 13,409 36.9 30.0% 37.4%
46 Aransas Pass, TX 8,720 41.2 27.0% 28.3%
47 Melissa, TX 15,244 35.3 27.0% 57.3%
48 Burkburnett, TX 10,979 42.5 28.0% 26.1%
49 Center, TX 5,221 38.2 33.0% 38.8%
50 Fredericksburg, TX 11,020 50.7 29.0% 21.8%
51 Big Spring, TX 25,949 36.9 29.0% 37.9%
52 Joshua, TX 8,004 35.4 40.0% 40.8%
53 Ingleside, TX 9,713 36.9 27.0% 37.9%
54 Bowie, TX 5,483 36.4 37.0% 32.4%
55 Hitchcock, TX 7,398 35.2 31.0% 38.8%
56 Alpine, TX 5,997 46.4 29.0% 18.9%
57 Robstown, TX 10,246 42.1 28.0% 26.9%
58 Whitehouse, TX 8,512 35.1 30.0% 45.7%
59 Cuero, TX 8,138 38.4 32.0% 30.9%
60 Denison, TX 24,872 40.1 27.0% 33.6%
61 Boerne, TX 18,475 38.3 26.0% 37.0%
62 Weatherford, TX 32,168 38.0 32.0% 29.8%
63 Lakeway, TX 18,835 50.2 21.0% 33.1%
64 Liberty, TX 8,348 39.0 29.0% 26.7%
65 Dayton, TX 8,839 32.4 30.0% 36.0%
66 Colleyville, TX 25,876 47.3 24.0% 35.7%
67 Henderson, TX 13,338 37.4 24.0% 37.5%
68 Bridgeport, TX 6,044 33.9 29.0% 38.0%
69 Jasper, TX 7,131 37.6 26.0% 37.4%
70 Graham, TX 8,726 36.7 36.0% 37.5%
71 Brady, TX 5,129 38.5 25.0% 28.5%
72 Schertz, TX 42,545 38.2 22.0% 38.6%
73 Marble Falls, TX 7,068 36.8 23.0% 35.5%
74 Alvarado, TX 5,107 32.0 36.0% 50.5%
75 Tomball, TX 12,630 38.2 23.0% 33.3%
76 Granite Shoals, TX 5,161 37.0 25.0% 47.8%
77 Highland Park, TX 8,840 44.4 29.0% 40.0%
78 Fulshear, TX 21,552 38.4 16.0% 60.6%
79 Fairview, TX 10,354 49.6 20.0% 26.1%
80 Southlake, TX 30,779 42.3 20.0% 51.0%
81 Dripping Springs, TX 5,495 36.6 22.0% 47.9%
82 Venus, TX 5,211 32.5 26.0% 52.7%
83 Roanoke, TX 9,565 36.5 20.0% 48.8%
84 Kilgore, TX 13,400 38.2 28.0% 36.8%
85 Burleson, TX 48,970 35.4 34.0% 42.5%
86 El Campo, TX 12,242 35.9 39.0% 41.5%
87 Iowa Park, TX 6,529 40.2 28.0% 30.1%
88 Littlefield, TX 5,939 35.1 34.0% 40.1%
89 New Braunfels, TX 92,993 36.1 30.0% 34.2%
90 Paris, TX 24,574 36.0 25.0% 32.7%
91 Cleveland, TX 7,756 36.5 21.0% 34.3%
92 Terrell, TX 18,001 35.0 23.0% 42.0%
93 Forney, TX 25,269 32.0 37.0% 50.7%
94 Keller, TX 45,320 43.3 21.0% 40.4%
95 Livingston, TX 5,672 36.9 18.0% 36.5%
96 Mcgregor, TX 5,478 32.7 28.0% 34.2%
97 Terrell Hills, TX 5,045 42.0 37.0% 33.9%
98 Cameron, TX 5,356 36.1 30.0% 37.4%
99 Cleburne, TX 31,849 35.2 33.0% 35.4%
100 Friendswood, TX 40,888 38.7 30.0% 37.2%
About Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.

He believes the key to finding the right place to live comes down to looking at the data, reading about things to do, and, most importantly, checking it out yourself before you move.

If you've been looking for a place to live in the past several years, you've probably stumbled upon his writing already.

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14 thoughts on “The 10 Most Boring Places In Texas For 2023

  1. Guys, you are out of your collective minds. You can’t compare Rockport to these other places because it’s not some ‘bedroom community’–it’s a RESORT area. Many of the residents, me included, are part-timers. We come here to go boating, fishing, shopping, art hunting and eating at our great local restaurants–the ones with freshly caught seafood. We’re not Fair Oaks Ranch, get it? Our favorite pastime is not mowing our front lawns, it’s living the life at the beach! You should probably learn the limitations of statistics.

    1. Try living here full-time and tell me what you think. Ever heard of too much of a good thing? It’s real.

    2. Is it a rich community. Or do y’all rent when you go? No matter….. Do you want to adopt another mom? Lol
      My family never likes fun. Been married 30 years this next June and never had a vacation or a honeymoon.

  2. Who writes this stuff?! Do they actually get paid for this?! This has got to be a click bait article. Hahaha!!!!!!

  3. “We crunched actual numbers to figure out which towns are statistically more boring.” Your numbers are incorrect, so your rankings are not trustworthy.

  4. Rockport is far from boring! Obviously they didn’t drive through Nixon or Smiley. This is a bunch of crap!

  5. I like that Richmond and Rosenberg are like 30 places apart on the list when they are basically the same city.

  6. Rockport has numerous parks, Aransas Pathways birding sites, Tule Hike & Bike Trails, Memorial Park which includes, Pavilion, 4 Soccer Fields, basketball court, Peewee, little league, softball & Senior league baseball fields, picnic areas with bbq pits, kid playground, exercise area, doggy stations, fenced Doggy Parks for big & small dogs, 2 ponds, wildlife, birds, turtles, ducks & fish, Natural wooded mulch trails with plenty of deer roaming in town as well as trails, Aquatic pool, skate park, Bay Education Center, Zachry Taylor Park & Pavilion, Compass Rose Park & Pavilion, Spencer Park, Mathis Park, Magnolia Park, McDonald Park, Observation Decks at Tule East & Tule West next to Walmart & across street from Walmart.

  7. Fredrickburg is the 27th most boring town in Texas?? It’s only the second biggest wine destination in the entire country behind Napa Valley!

    Huntsville being the 10th least boring town in Texas is also a joke

  8. College Station?… I’ve lived here for 40 years. You are delusional if you think College Station is the most exciting place to live in Texas. There is nothing to do here but drink, eat at chain restaurants and go to church. That’s it. This place is the f’n pits. It couldn’t be more culturally stunted if it tried.

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