What is the Munimetric score for Texas?

Munimetric assigns a state-level average MISI score based on the individual scores of all covered community water systems in Texas. The state average, band distribution, and market-level rankings are shown on this page. Higher MISI values indicate greater structural stress.

Which water systems in Texas face the most infrastructure stress?

The state page ranks the highest-stress systems in Texas by MISI score. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk, not a single compliance event. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. Workflow actions remain reserved for account access.

How does Texas compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?

Texas is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. Munimetric tracks nationwide coverage across 9,000+ scored service markets.

Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Texas water systems?

Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family score. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.

Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Texas water systems?

Munimetric summarizes stored PFAS monitoring context where public contaminant-monitoring records are available. Missing PFAS summaries remain missing records, not non-detections, and this public-record layer does not change the MISI score by itself.

What compliance signals are active in Texas?

Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, population decline, income erosion, data staleness, and parent-government fiscal stress across Texas water systems.

Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Texas?

Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions that provide context around system reliability over time.

How many covered systems in Texas have recent recorded drinking-water violations?

Stored public records show 546 covered systems with recent drinking-water violations, with 3,623 recorded violations across 987 covered systems in the recent 3 years window.

How does Munimetric summarize PFAS public-record context in Texas?

Stored contaminant-monitoring summaries are present for 937 covered systems; 879 systems have PFAS detection context in this state summary.

How does Munimetric summarize lead & copper context in Texas?

Stored lead & copper summaries are present for 973 covered systems; 290 systems have violation or action-level context in this state summary.

What source-water types are represented across covered Texas systems?

Stored identity records group covered Texas systems by source-water type: Surface water: 609, Groundwater: 378.

Where can I find official drinking-water records for Texas?

The Official records drawer lists State drinking-water program, Public drinking-water profile, Contaminant monitoring records links where currently available for Texas.

Is this a real-time statewide tap-water condition rating?

No. This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Munimetric summarizes stored public-record context for research and navigation, and this layer does not change MISI.

States / Texas

Texas

Name: Texas Drinking Water Infrastructure Stress Data
Creator: Munimetric
License: https://munimetric.com/terms

Statewide Munimetric profile for Texas, covering drinking-water market scores, signal activity, infrastructure stress context, and population insights across 987 scored service markets serving approximately 29.5 million people. This state profile highlights what is happening and why it matters using water-system, fiscal, capital, and signal context.

Texas has an average MISI infrastructure stress score of 25.5/100 in the Watch band as of 2026-08-24. Public records summarize recent drinking-water violations, PFAS monitoring records, lead and copper context, and source-water mix across 987 covered systems. This state view helps route system-name searches into scored service-market profiles and statewide water-record context. Updated May 2026.

National context

States sized by scored-market count. Color reflects average stress band.

987Markets scored

25.5Headline composite

~29.5MPop. served

4314Active signals

Band distribution (MISI)

State headline composite

Component of current headline composite

Infrastructure Stress22.3 / 100

Physical, compliance, and capital-execution pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Socioeconomic Stress3.1 / 100

Affordability, demand-base, and parent-government fiscal pressure reflected in the blended headline composite.

Observability Stress0.1 / 100

Staleness, disclosure freshness, and reporting-visibility effects reflected in the blended headline composite.

25.5 headline compositeTexas state composite987 markets~29.5M people served

State interpretation guide

How to read Texas headline composite

Plain-language summary

Texas currently shows an average MISI headline composite of 25.5 versus a national average of 24.4. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.

Why this page stands out

987 scored systems are included in this state view, with explicit confidence and source-backed context.
State posture is benchmarked against national averages, not evaluated in isolation.
Top system links below connect state-level findings directly to profile-level diagnostics.

What to do next

Review the executive context to understand the state-level pressure pattern.
Open top system profiles to inspect what is actually driving stress at market level.
Use saved monitoring after research access is enabled to follow high-stress systems over time.

Priority Texas paths

Public record layer

Statewide Water Quality Context

Stored public-record context for recent drinking-water violations, contaminant monitoring, and source-water mix across covered systems. This is not a tap-water safety determination and does not change the MISI score.

Systems with recent violations

546 of 987Systems with recent public violation rows.

Source-water mix987 systems

Surface water609
Groundwater378
Purchased water0
Mixed source0
Not stored0

Latest identity snapshot: Jun 30, 2026

Coverage

Violation, enforcement, and compliance-burden counts use the recent 3 years window for dated stored records.
Drinking-water identity snapshots are stored for 974 of 987 included scored systems.
PFAS monitoring summary records are stored for 937 of 987 included systems; missing records are not treated as non-detections.
Lead and copper summary records are stored for 973 of 987 included systems; missing records are not treated as absence of lead/copper context.

Water quality questionsDefinitions and public-record context

How many covered systems in Texas have recent recorded drinking-water violations?: Stored public records show 546 covered systems with recent drinking-water violations, with 3,623 recorded violations across 987 covered systems in the recent 3 years window.
How does Munimetric summarize PFAS public-record context in Texas?: Stored contaminant-monitoring summaries are present for 937 covered systems; 879 systems have PFAS detection context in this state summary.
How does Munimetric summarize lead & copper context in Texas?: Stored lead & copper summaries are present for 973 covered systems; 290 systems have violation or action-level context in this state summary.
What source-water types are represented across covered Texas systems?: Stored identity records group covered Texas systems by source-water type: Surface water: 609, Groundwater: 378.
Where can I find official drinking-water records for Texas?: The Official records drawer lists State drinking-water program, Public drinking-water profile, Contaminant monitoring records links where currently available for Texas.
Is this a real-time statewide tap-water condition rating?: No. This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. Munimetric summarizes stored public-record context for research and navigation, and this layer does not change MISI.

Official records

State drinking-water programTexas Commission on Environmental Quality: State drinking-water program home page.
Public drinking-water profileEPA ECHO: Federal drinking-water dashboard and public-record search entry point.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: Federal contaminant-monitoring program reference and public data entry point.

Methodology/source notes

Methodology/source notesDisplayed from stored public drinking-water records and official program references. This layer does not change MISI.
Enforcement historyEPA ECHO / SDWIS: Violation and enforcement counts are aggregated from stored public compliance records across covered systems.
Contaminant monitoring recordsEPA UCMR: PFAS context uses stored contaminant-monitoring summaries where available; missing records are not treated as non-detections.

Top recent compliance-burden systemsRecent 3 years

System	Population	Source water	Recent violations	Recent enforcement	Public-record flags
City Of WhartonTX2410005	8,756	Groundwater	110	59	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
City Of Leon ValleyTX0150178	7,794	Groundwater	85	18	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records
City Of GladewaterTX0920001	6,441	Surface water	73	183	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, lead/copper context
City Of Brady Water SystemTX1540001	5,371	Groundwater	68	241	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context
City Of La GrullaTX2140006	9,500	Surface water	65	138	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context
Tri County SudTX0730004	5,353	Groundwater	60	177	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, PFAS detections in stored records
City Of RomaTX2140007	19,464	Surface water	47	157	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, recent monitoring/reporting failures, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context
Oak Trail ShoresTX1110004	5,676	Surface water	44	120	recent violations recorded, recent enforcement history, PFAS detections in stored records, lead/copper context

This is not a real-time tap-water condition determination. For current advisories or health guidance, consult the utility or state drinking-water program.

Executive context

What This Page Shows

987 of the community drinking-water systems in Texas are currently scored. Analytics below are calculated from this covered subset only. Covered systems serve approximately 29.5M people.

What the Data Suggests

Texas has 987 scored service markets in the Munimetric coverage set, covering roughly 29.5 million residents in total. At the latest reading, the state-level average lands at 25.5 out of 100, indicating early but meaningful signs of structural stress in aggregate. A relatively small share — roughly 5% — currently sit in elevated-stress bands.

Across state markets, Operational Stress stands out as the dominant contributor to headline stress (13.4 points average), with Capex Pressure a distant second at 8.9. That pattern suggests a particular kind of pressure — concentrated rather than broadly distributed.

4314 active signals are recorded across state markets. The most prevalent is Climate Hazard Exposure, affecting 933 markets.

State-level average stress has been relatively steady between recent observation periods, suggesting the current picture reflects persistent conditions rather than a sudden shift.

This summary is based on structured, source-backed public data and is intended for research and monitoring only. It is not investment advice, a credit opinion, or municipal advisory guidance.

Recent Movement

Latest average MISI is 25.5 as of Aug 24, 2026. Movement since Aug 23, 2026 is flat.

Compact summary from 100 stored state observations.

State Family Contribution Summary

Operational Stress13.4 / 20.0

Capex Pressure8.9 / 20.0

Revenue Fragility2.5 / 20.0

Governance Risk0.5 / 20.0

Rate Constraint0.2 / 20.0

Signals

Signal Frequency

Signal	Severity	Markets affected	% of scored
Climate Hazard Exposure	high	933	95%
PFAS Contamination Risk	high	879	89%
Compliance Escalation	high	666	67%
Current Drought Severity	high	559	57%
High-AGI Out-Migration	high	473	48%
Lead & Copper Rule Risk	high	290	29%
Monitoring / Reporting Failures	medium	150	15%
Parent-Government Fiscal Stress	high	108	11%
Infrastructure Capital Gap	high	86	9%
Population Served Decline	high	78	8%
Housing Market Weakness	medium	44	4%
Income Erosion	high	28	3%
Utility Data Staleness	high	20	2%

Markets

Top Markets

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	City of Cotulla	52.4	Fragile	6K	8
2	City of Carrizo Springs	50.1	Fragile	6K	7
3	City of Midland Water Purification Plant	49.8	Fragile	157K	8
4	Union Wsc	47.7	Fragile	6K	9
5	City of Port Lavaca	47.4	Fragile	12K	6
6	Gbra Calhoun County Rural Water System	47.4	Fragile	4K	6
7	City of Weslaco	47.4	Fragile	40K	8
8	Tryon Road Sud	46.9	Fragile	11K	8
9	City of Corpus Christi	46.7	Fragile	318K	8
10	Fritch Municipal Water Supply	46.7	Fragile	6K	8
11	City of Childress	46.5	Fragile	6K	8
12	Corpus Christi Naval Air Station	46.4	Fragile	7K	9
13	City of Eastland	45.9	Fragile	4K	6
14	City of Raymondville	45.5	Fragile	11K	8
15	Fort Bliss Main Post Area	45.2	Fragile	28K	6
16	Perryton Municipal Water System	45.1	Fragile	8K	7
17	San Diego Mud 1	45.0	Fragile	6K	8
18	City of Wilmer	44.8	Fragile	7K	8
19	City of Mercedes	44.4	Fragile	16K	9
20	Town of Sunnyvale	44.1	Fragile	9K	7

Comparison

State Comparison

National average: 24.4

Rank	State	Avg Score	Band	Markets	Delta vs State
20	Utah	26.6	Watch	106	+1.2
21	District of Columbia	26.5	Stable	4	+1.0
22	Texas	25.5	Watch	987	+0.0
23	Mississippi	25.3	Watch	208	-0.2
24	Colorado	25.1	Watch	174	-0.3

Analytical posture

State Stress Analytics

Score Distribution

Distribution of scored market scores with the state average overlay.

987 markets plotted.

Stress vs Population

Each point is a scored market; tooltip reveals market-level context.

963 markets plotted.

Population View

People served by community water systems in Texas, colored by stress band.

~29.5M people served by 987 systems in Texas

Stable

Watch

Fragile

High Stress

Critical

987 scored systems · colored by stress band

Peer Constellation

Select a market to see its nearest peers by score similarity.

Center market:

24 nearest peers by score distance.

Score Trend

Latest

25.5

Trend

+19.8

Observations

100

Extended layers

Advanced State Context

Priority views, detailed registers, and methodology supporting the analytical core above.

Markets & signals

Priority Views

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	City of Cotulla	52.4	Fragile	6K	8
2	City of Carrizo Springs	50.1	Fragile	6K	7
3	City of Midland Water Purification Plant	49.8	Fragile	157K	8
4	Union Wsc	47.7	Fragile	6K	9
5	City of Port Lavaca	47.4	Fragile	12K	6
6	Gbra Calhoun County Rural Water System	47.4	Fragile	4K	6
7	City of Weslaco	47.4	Fragile	40K	8
8	Tryon Road Sud	46.9	Fragile	11K	8
9	City of Corpus Christi	46.7	Fragile	318K	8
10	Fritch Municipal Water Supply	46.7	Fragile	6K	8
11	City of Childress	46.5	Fragile	6K	8
12	Corpus Christi Naval Air Station	46.4	Fragile	7K	9
13	City of Eastland	45.9	Fragile	4K	6
14	City of Raymondville	45.5	Fragile	11K	8
15	Fort Bliss Main Post Area	45.2	Fragile	28K	6
16	Perryton Municipal Water System	45.1	Fragile	8K	7
17	San Diego Mud 1	45.0	Fragile	6K	8
18	City of Wilmer	44.8	Fragile	7K	8
19	City of Mercedes	44.4	Fragile	16K	9
20	Town of Sunnyvale	44.1	Fragile	9K	7

Detailed records

Registers

#	Market	Score	Band	Population	Signals
1	City of Cotulla	52.4	Fragile	6K	8
2	City of Carrizo Springs	50.1	Fragile	6K	7
3	City of Midland Water Purification Plant	49.8	Fragile	157K	8
4	Union Wsc	47.7	Fragile	6K	9
5	City of Port Lavaca	47.4	Fragile	12K	6
6	Gbra Calhoun County Rural Water System	47.4	Fragile	4K	6
7	City of Weslaco	47.4	Fragile	40K	8
8	Tryon Road Sud	46.9	Fragile	11K	8
9	City of Corpus Christi	46.7	Fragile	318K	8
10	Fritch Municipal Water Supply	46.7	Fragile	6K	8
11	City of Childress	46.5	Fragile	6K	8
12	Corpus Christi Naval Air Station	46.4	Fragile	7K	9
13	City of Eastland	45.9	Fragile	4K	6
14	City of Raymondville	45.5	Fragile	11K	8
15	Fort Bliss Main Post Area	45.2	Fragile	28K	6
16	Perryton Municipal Water System	45.1	Fragile	8K	7
17	San Diego Mud 1	45.0	Fragile	6K	8
18	City of Wilmer	44.8	Fragile	7K	8
19	City of Mercedes	44.4	Fragile	16K	9
20	Town of Sunnyvale	44.1	Fragile	9K	7

Munimetric tracks infrastructure stress across 987 community drinking-water systems in Texas, covering compliance conditions, capital needs, revenue and rate pressure, and governance risk. Use this page to research which systems face the highest structural stress and how Texas compares nationally.

Which water systems in Texas face the most infrastructure stress?: The highest-stress systems in Texas are ranked by MISI score above. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk—not a single compliance event. In v0.1.2, the headline composite remains a blended structural stress measure rather than a pure physical-condition index. A frozen national reference and a 50 percent single-factor cap reduce the dominance of near-universal and very rare factors, while the component bars continue to separate infrastructure, socioeconomic, and observability readings.
How does Texas compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?: Texas is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. The state comparison table above shows where Texas ranks nationally and how its average score compares.
Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Texas water systems?: Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.
What compliance signals are active in Texas?: Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, data staleness, and financial stress indicators across Texas systems. The signal frequency table above summarizes which signals are most prevalent statewide.
Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Texas?: Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions—compliance posture, infrastructure stress, and governance risk—that provide broader context around system reliability.

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Water Infrastructure in Texas

Munimetric tracks infrastructure stress across 987 community drinking-water systems in Texas. Each system receives a Munimetric Infrastructure Stress Index (MISI) score from 0 to 100, calculated across five risk families: Operational Stress, Capex Pressure, Revenue Fragility, Rate Constraint, and Governance Risk. Higher scores indicate more structural stress. Scores are source-backed and deterministic, drawing from EPA SDWA compliance records, American Community Survey demographic and economic data, FEMA National Risk Index hazard profiles, and state financial disclosures.

State-level monitoring shows which systems face the highest structural stress, how Texas compares against other states nationally, and which monitoring signals are most active across the state. Each individual system profile includes compliance history, score family drivers, peer rankings within population-based cohorts where safeguards pass, and public source context. Full provenance cards and source workbench views remain workflow-gated. Munimetric covers community water systems across all 50 states and territories. This is structural risk research—not a water quality rating, advisory feed, or credit rating. Updated May 2026.

The statewide public-record layer adds drinking-water violation categories, PFAS monitoring summaries where stored, lead and copper context, source-water mix, and official record links across covered systems. These records help explain water-system context alongside infrastructure stress without turning Munimetric into a tap-water safety determination.

What is the Munimetric score for Texas?: Munimetric assigns a state-level average MISI score based on the individual scores of all covered community water systems in Texas. The state average, band distribution, and market-level rankings are shown on this page. Higher MISI values indicate greater structural stress.
Which water systems in Texas face the most infrastructure stress?: The state page ranks the highest-stress systems in Texas by MISI score. Stress reflects operational burden, capital gaps, revenue fragility, rate affordability constraints, and governance risk, not a single compliance event. The headline remains a blended structural stress composite rather than a pure physical-condition index. Workflow actions remain reserved for account access.
How does Texas compare to other states for drinking water infrastructure risk?: Texas is compared against all 50 states and territories using average MISI score, market count, and band distribution. Munimetric tracks nationwide coverage across 9,000+ scored service markets.
Are there lead pipe or corrosion-related concerns in Texas water systems?: Where lead and copper rule compliance data is available from EPA SDWA records, Munimetric factors it into the Operational Stress family score. Specific lead service line inventories vary by system. Individual system profiles contain the most detailed compliance context available.
Does Munimetric include PFAS monitoring context for Texas water systems?: Munimetric summarizes stored PFAS monitoring context where public contaminant-monitoring records are available. Missing PFAS summaries remain missing records, not non-detections, and this public-record layer does not change the MISI score by itself.
What compliance signals are active in Texas?: Munimetric tracks signals such as compliance escalation, monitoring and reporting failures, population decline, income erosion, data staleness, and parent-government fiscal stress across Texas water systems.
Does Munimetric track boil water advisories in Texas?: Munimetric does not track real-time boil water advisories. For current advisories, contact your local water utility or state drinking water program. Munimetric monitors structural conditions that provide context around system reliability over time.