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Dawson County, TX

People
Population12,134B01003
Population, 2020 census12,456P1
Median age34.8B01002
Under 1824.3%B01001
65 and over13.9%B01001
Households4,043B11001
Foreign born8.4%B05002
Money
Median household income$54,360B19013
Median family income$69,367B19113
Per capita income$26,655B19301
Poverty rate19.6%B17001
Unemployment rate6.4%B23025
Civilian labor force4,881B23025
Mean commute (minutes)24.4B08013
Education
Bachelor's degree or higher12.7%B15003
Housing
Housing units4,903B25001
Owner-occupied70.6%B25003
Renters29.4%B25003
Median home value$103,400B25077
Median gross rent$777B25064
Race and ethnicity
White, not Hispanic35.2%B03002
Black6.5%B03002
Hispanic or Latino55.8%B03002
Asian0.5%B03002
American Indian and Alaska Native0.1%B03002

Figures from the 2020-2024 American Community Survey five-year estimates (table codes link to the same table for this area at data.census.gov) and the 2020 census (P1), via IPUMS NHGIS. Estimates for small areas carry wide margins of error; a tract's figures describe its residents, not any one organization.

Against the state: median household income here is 69% of Texas's ($78,476); poverty 19.6% against 13.8%; 0.0% of the state's people live here.

Census tracts

Census Tract 9504.01: 3,962Census Tract 9504.02: 3,656Census Tract 9505: 3,087Census Tract 9506: 1,429LamesaWelchLos YbanezZIP 79331: 96 nonprofits, $36,481,426ZIP 79351: 14 nonprofits, $11,807ZIP 79377: 2 nonprofitsPopulation (ACS 2020-2024)up to 1,4291,429 to 3,0873,087 to 3,656over 3,656nonprofits (circle size: how many)

Click an area for its page. Circles are FURP records at their ZIP code's center point, sized by how many. Download this map's areas with their census figures: CSV (center points) · GeoJSON (outlines), ready for Datawrapper, Mapshaper or Google My Maps. Outlines: Census TIGER/Line 2026, simplified.

Places in the county

FURP records in Dawson County, TX

RecordsHow manyTotalBiggest
Nonprofits112$36,493,233 revenue (latest return)WEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES ($32,549,824)
Nonprofit contractors4$6,819,870 paid by nonprofitsWest Texas Opportunities Inc ($4,467,024)
Form 5500 plan sponsors1517 plansGRIENGSAK CHOWPAKNAM (2)
Open Payments recipients16$3,937 industry paymentsKRYSTAL AVALOS ($1,297)
Patent and trademark owners59 patents and marksBaitanator, Inc (3)
Federal award recipients1,043$177,973,486 federal awardsWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES INC ($84,728,401)
State business registrations16EZ COMMERCE L&D, LLC

Cross-reference: 112 nonprofits for 12,134 residents is 92.3 per 10,000 people; their latest-year revenue of $36,493,233 is $3,008 per resident, 16.6% of all household income here (households at the median income).

Highest-paid people on nonprofit returns here

#NameTitleOrganizationPayYearTimes the median household income
1JENNY L GIBSONEXECUTIVE DIRECTORWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$138,45120242.5x
2KAREN FAULKNERTRANSPORTATION DIRWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$101,60020241.9x
3DONNA BURKETTFISCAL OFFICERWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$100,08220241.8x
4BROOKE ADCOCKEHS DIRECTORWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$98,72020241.8x
5SARAH BARTLETTHS/EHS COORDINATORWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$96,04220241.8x
6KRISTI MILLERD&M COORDINATORWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$92,36520231.7x
7MARIA FLOREZT&N COORDINATORWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$81,51620221.5x
8TERESA POPNOEHR DIRECTORWEST TEXAS OPPORTUNITIES$71,28620211.3x
9TAMMY VIDALExecutive DirecDAWSON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC$58,43220211.1x
10TAMMY WYATTCHIEF PROF OLAMESA BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC$55,93520201.0x

Each person's latest year on a 990 at a nonprofit placed here (reported pay including related organizations and other compensation); people paid under $50,000 are left out. The median household income here is $54,360.

Nonprofits: biggest by revenue (latest return)

Nonprofit contractors: biggest by paid by nonprofits

Form 5500 plan sponsors: biggest by plans

Open Payments recipients: biggest by industry payments

Patent and trademark owners: biggest by patents and marks

Federal award recipients: biggest by federal awards

All 4 tracts

Every tract with its figures is in the CSV and GeoJSON downloads.

TractPopulationMedian household incomePoverty rateMedian age
Census Tract 9504.013,962$54,32330.7%34.0
Census Tract 9504.023,656$51,64513.2%36.8
Census Tract 95053,087$46,37316.1%35.9
Census Tract 95061,429$81,2504.7%32.8

Census figures are from IPUMS NHGIS: the American Community Survey 2020-2024 five-year estimates (ACS table codes shown with each figure) and the 2020 decennial census (Demographic and Housing Characteristics), by state, county, place and census tract. FURP records are placed by ZIP code (the Census Bureau's 2020 ZCTA-to-county and ZCTA-to-tract relationship files: the county or tract holding most of the ZIP's land) and by city name (Census place names, normalized), so a record's tract is its ZIP's main tract, not its street's. Cite: Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, Steven Manson, Grace Cooper, Zachary Krause, Tracy Kugler, Tsu Zhu, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 21.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. 2026. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V21.0