The 10 Whitest Cities In Texas For 2024


The whitest cities in Texas are Gun Barrel City and Bowie for 2024 based on Saturday Night Science.

Whitest cities in Texas research summary. We analyzed Texas’s most recent Census data to determine the whitest cities in Texas based on the percentage of White residents. Here are the results of our analysis:

  • The whitest city in Texas is Gun Barrel City based on the most recent Census data.

  • Gun Barrel City is 94.67% White.

  • The least White city in Texas is Elsa.

  • Elsa is 0.42% White.

  • Texas is 40.1% White.

  • Texas is the 47th Whitest state in the United States.

Cities With Highest White Population In Texas Map


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


Today, we are looking at the whitest places in Texas. We won’t measure the number of Whole Foods or Pottery Barns per capita. Instead, we’ll focus on the Census data’s report of race by place in Texas. In particular, we ranked each place in Texas by the percentage of white people.

So where are the whitest cities you can live in Texas?

After analyzing cities with populations greater than 5,000, we came up with this list as the whitest cities in Texas for 2024.

Here are the 10 whites places in Texas for 2024:

  1. Gun Barrel City
  2. Bowie
  3. Lumberton
  4. Highland Park
  5. Joshua
  6. Heath
  7. Iowa Park
  8. Vidor
  9. Granbury
  10. Bridge City

What is the whitest city in Texas for 2024? According to the most recent census data Gun Barrel City ranks as the whitest. If you’re wondering, Elsa is the least white city of all those we measured.

Read on below to see where your hometown ranked and why. Or check out the whitest states in America and the most diverse states in America.

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The 10 Whitest Cities In Texas For 2024

Source: Public Domain
Overall SnackAbility

5
/10

Population: 6,247
% White: 94.67%
More on Gun Barrel City: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Bowie, TX

Source: Wikipedia User No machine-readable author provided. Billy Hathorn assumed (based on copyright claims). | CC BY-SA 3.0
Overall SnackAbility

5
/10

Population: 5,483
% White: 90.15%
More on Bowie: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

6
/10

Population: 13,613
% White: 89.66%
More on Lumberton: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Highland Park, TX

Source: Wikipedia User The original uploader was Ansem27 at English Wikipedia | GFDL
Overall SnackAbility

7.5
/10

Population: 8,840
% White: 89.39%
More on Highland Park: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Overall SnackAbility

8
/10

Population: 8,004
% White: 87.74%
More on Joshua: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Heath, TX

Source: Wikipedia User nthomas76207 | CC BY 2.0
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10

Population: 9,771
% White: 87.68%
More on Heath: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Iowa Park, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Billy Hathorn at en.wikipedia | GFDL
Overall SnackAbility

8
/10

Population: 6,529
% White: 86.92%
More on Iowa Park: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Vidor, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Larry D. Moore | CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10

Population: 9,806
% White: 86.64%
More on Vidor: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Granbury, TX

Source: Wikipedia User Slegby | GFDL
Overall SnackAbility

6
/10

Population: 11,218
% White: 85.07%
More on Granbury: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Source: Public Domain
Overall SnackAbility

8.5
/10

Population: 9,461
% White: 84.28%
More on Bridge City: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Methodology: How we determined the whitest places in Texas for 2024

To rank the whitest places in Texas, we used Saturday Night Science to look at Census demographic data.

We had to look at the number of white people living in each city in Texas on a per capita basis. In other words, the percentage of white people living in each city in Texas.

We looked at table B03002: Hispanic OR LATINO ORIGIN BY RACE. Here are the category names as defined by the Census:

  • Hispanic or Latino
  • White alone*
  • Black or African American alone*
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone*
  • Asian alone*
  • Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone*
  • Some other race alone*
  • Two or more races*
* Not Hispanic or latino

Our particular column of interest here was the number of people who identified as White alone.

We limited our analysis to town with a population greater than 5,000 people. That left us with 324 cities.

We then calculated the percentage of residents that are White. The percentages ranked from 94.7% to 0.4%.

Finally, we ranked each city based on the percentage of White population, with a higher score being more White than a lower score. Gun Barrel City took the distinction of being the most White, while Elsa was the least White city.

We updated this article for 2024. This report represents our tenth time ranking the whitest cities in Texas.

Read on for more information on how the cities in Texas ranked by population of White residents or, for a more general take on diversity in America, head over to our ranking of the most diverse cities in America.

Summary: White Populations Across Texas

We measured the locations with the highest percentage of white people in Texas. According to the most recent data, this list provides accurate information on the whitest places in Texas.

The most White cities in Texas are Gun Barrel City, Bowie, Lumberton, Highland Park, Joshua, Heath, Iowa Park, Vidor, Granbury, and Bridge City.

If you’re curious enough, here are the least White places in Texas:

  1. Elsa
  2. Alton
  3. Hidalgo

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White Population By City In Texas

Rank City Population White Population % White
1 Gun Barrel City 6,247 5,914 94.67%
2 Bowie 5,483 4,943 90.15%
3 Lumberton 13,613 12,205 89.66%
4 Highland Park 8,840 7,902 89.39%
5 Joshua 8,004 7,023 87.74%
6 Heath 9,771 8,567 87.68%
7 Iowa Park 6,529 5,675 86.92%
8 Vidor 9,806 8,496 86.64%
9 Granbury 11,218 9,543 85.07%
10 Bridge City 9,461 7,974 84.28%
11 Port Neches 13,635 11,465 84.09%
12 University Park 25,179 20,945 83.18%
13 Woodway 9,399 7,656 81.46%
14 Highland Village 15,883 12,884 81.12%
15 Nederland 18,569 14,780 79.6%
16 Trophy Club 13,251 10,472 79.03%
17 Keller 45,320 35,545 78.43%
18 Lakeway 18,835 14,755 78.34%
19 Fredericksburg 11,020 8,632 78.33%
20 Weatherford 32,168 25,121 78.09%
21 Azle 13,409 10,421 77.72%
22 Burnet 6,464 5,008 77.48%
23 Whitehouse 8,512 6,581 77.31%
24 Colleyville 25,876 19,989 77.25%
25 Burkburnett 10,979 8,448 76.95%
26 Fairview 10,354 7,801 75.34%
27 Denison 24,872 18,555 74.6%
28 West University Place 14,963 11,128 74.37%
29 Fair Oaks Ranch 9,917 7,343 74.04%
30 Canyon 15,089 11,136 73.8%
31 Stephenville 21,020 15,313 72.85%
32 Graham 8,726 6,261 71.75%
33 Sanger 9,041 6,472 71.59%
34 Rockport 10,265 7,306 71.17%
35 Santa Fe 12,792 9,086 71.03%
36 Lago Vista 9,001 6,381 70.89%
37 Friendswood 40,888 28,922 70.73%
38 Alamo Heights 7,417 5,235 70.58%
39 Burleson 48,970 34,130 69.7%
40 Southlake 30,779 21,426 69.61%
41 Corinth 22,502 15,560 69.15%
42 Seabrook 13,558 9,325 68.78%
43 Rockwall 47,859 32,816 68.57%
44 Midlothian 35,460 24,196 68.23%
45 Prosper 31,507 21,475 68.16%
46 Flower Mound 76,630 51,961 67.81%
47 Georgetown 71,788 48,662 67.79%
48 Carthage 6,549 4,343 66.32%
49 Hewitt 16,034 10,631 66.3%
50 Robinson 12,470 8,265 66.28%
51 North Richland Hills 70,114 46,209 65.91%
52 Benbrook 24,366 16,003 65.68%
53 Marble Falls 7,068 4,638 65.62%
54 Richland Hills 8,513 5,567 65.39%
55 Sulphur Springs 16,033 10,480 65.37%
56 White Oak 6,227 4,032 64.75%
57 Tomball 12,630 8,153 64.55%
58 Boerne 18,475 11,878 64.29%
59 Grapevine 50,763 32,515 64.05%
60 Kerrville 24,333 15,550 63.9%
61 Buda 14,997 9,570 63.81%
62 Bellaire 17,163 10,863 63.29%
63 Lampasas 7,377 4,666 63.25%
64 League City 113,469 70,952 62.53%
65 Mineral Wells 15,049 9,268 61.59%
66 College Station 120,451 73,709 61.19%
67 Borger 12,505 7,644 61.13%
68 Bonham 10,485 6,364 60.7%
69 Celina 21,501 13,048 60.69%
70 Brownwood 18,820 11,398 60.56%
71 Forney 25,269 15,279 60.47%
72 Sherman 44,052 26,626 60.44%
73 Gladewater 6,166 3,712 60.2%
74 Anna 18,585 11,123 59.85%
75 Keene 6,451 3,860 59.84%
76 Lake Jackson 27,954 16,701 59.74%
77 Bedford 49,455 29,497 59.64%
78 Lake Dallas 7,682 4,564 59.41%
79 Paris 24,574 14,597 59.4%
80 Pampa 16,861 9,965 59.1%
81 Royse City 15,051 8,889 59.06%
82 Cedar Park 76,344 45,059 59.02%
83 Wichita Falls 102,482 60,333 58.87%
84 Cleburne 31,849 18,634 58.51%
85 New Braunfels 92,993 54,150 58.23%
86 Wake Village 5,909 3,439 58.2%
87 Watauga 23,509 13,650 58.06%
88 Dayton 8,839 5,132 58.06%
89 Kennedale 8,590 4,981 57.99%
90 Bastrop 9,955 5,769 57.95%
91 Greenville 28,923 16,753 57.92%
92 Belton 23,137 13,399 57.91%
93 Groves 17,110 9,794 57.24%
94 Denton 142,262 81,000 56.94%
95 Abilene 126,356 71,935 56.93%
96 Decatur 6,781 3,856 56.86%
97 Silsbee 6,904 3,925 56.85%
98 Gainesville 17,459 9,901 56.71%
99 Roanoke 9,565 5,420 56.66%
100 Liberty 8,348 4,713 56.46%
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.

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