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Auto repair shops in the Rio Grande City-Roma, TX area
How the Rio Grande City-Roma, TX area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for auto repair shops: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 37 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #407 of 538 scored small-town markets
#28 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas
- Listings
- 59
- 4 chain locations (7%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $15.2M
- On vehicle maintenance and repairs · $791 a household
- Spending per listing
- $257K
- 42% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 30.8
- 43% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 66,319
- +0.7% since 2020
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What this means
The Rio Grande City-Roma area scores 37 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for auto repair shops, ranking #407 of 538 scored small-town markets and #28 of 41 scored small-town markets based in Texas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of small-town markets.
Household spending on vehicle maintenance and repairs in the Rio Grande City-Roma area comes to about $15.2M a year: $791 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. Spread across 59 auto repair shops, that is $257K per shop, 42% below the U.S. figure of $445K. The spending figure covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, not only auto repair shops.
The Rio Grande City-Roma area has 59 auto repair shops on map listings as of September 2026. Of those, 4 are chain locations, or 7%, against 16% across the U.S. That is 30.8 per 10,000 households, 43% above the U.S. rate of 21.5.
Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in the Rio Grande City-Roma area in 2023. That is one for every 6,386 households, against one for every 955 across the U.S. Population estimates show the Rio Grande City-Roma area grew 0.7% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Rio Grande City-Roma area compares
The same measures for Texas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all vehicle maintenance and repairs by the auto repair shops counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Rio Grande City-Roma area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 30.8 | 26.1 | 21.5 |
| Spending per listing | $257K | $352K | $445K |
| Households per official establishment | 6,386 | 1,058 | 955 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +10.9% | +2.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.7% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on vehicle maintenance and repairs | $791 | $918 | $958 |
| Median household income | $37,639 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 37 | 46 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 3
- Employees, 2023
- 8
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $244K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 179Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 594 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 34The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in the Rio Grande City-Roma area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Rio Grande City-Roma area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 66,319+0.7% since 2020
- Households
- 19,157
- Median age
- 30.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,223 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 54
- Median household income
- $37,639+23.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $58,715
- Median home value
- $95,100
- Jobs located here
- 11,587
- Daytime population
- 54,236Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Texas market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Texas for auto repair shops, numbered among those based in Texas, with the Rio Grande City-Roma area marked.
Top small-town markets in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacksonville, TX | 65 | 42 | 23.1 | $400K | +5.4% | #118 of 538 |
| 2Huntsville, TX | 62 | 50 | 19.2 | $417K | +9.5% | #151 of 538 |
| 3El Campo, TX | 58 | 38 | 23.9 | $402K | +1.2% | #187 of 538 |
| 4Granbury, TX | 58 | 69 | 27.0 | $374K | +13.6% | #188 of 538 |
| 5Mineral Wells, TX | 57 | 30 | 26.7 | $353K | +8.2% | #201 of 538 |
| 6Athens, TX | 56 | 97 | 28.9 | $327K | +7.5% | #213 of 538 |
| 7Bay City, TX | 55 | 30 | 19.4 | $441K | +0.5% | #222 of 538 |
| 8Fredericksburg, TX | 54 | 30 | 26.1 | $382K | +6.6% | #239 of 538 |
| 9Corsicana, TX | 53 | 52 | 27.3 | $354K | +8.2% | #254 of 538 |
| 10Raymondville, TX | 52 | 9 | 15.8 | $537K | −0.8% | #258 of 538 |
| 28Rio Grande City-Roma, TX | 37 | 59 | 30.8 | $257K | +0.7% | #407 of 538 |
Other business types in the Rio Grande City-Roma area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many auto repair shops are in the Rio Grande City-Roma, TX area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 59 auto repair shops in the Rio Grande City-Roma area. 4 of them (7%) are chain locations. The listings count general, specialty, body and glass repair shops. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as mechanical, body and glass repair in 2023. Another 179 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in the Rio Grande City-Roma, TX area spend on vehicle maintenance and repairs?
About $15.2M a year, or $791 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 59 auto repair shops on map listings, it comes to $257K per shop. That spending covers all vehicle maintenance and repairs, which auto repair shops share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 19,157 households in the Rio Grande City-Roma area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Rio Grande City-Roma, TX area compare with the U.S. for auto repair shops?
The Rio Grande City-Roma area has 30.8 auto repair shops per 10,000 households, 43% above the U.S. rate of 21.5. Spending per shop is $257K, 42% below the U.S. figure of $445K. At the U.S. ratio of auto repair shops to household spending, the Rio Grande City-Roma area would have about 34, against 59 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 6,386 households, against one for every 955 across the U.S.
How fast is the Rio Grande City-Roma, TX area growing?
Population estimates put the Rio Grande City-Roma area at 66,319 people in 2025, up 0.7% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 19,157 households. Median household income in the Rio Grande City-Roma area is $37,639, 53% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 23.9%, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Rio Grande City-Roma area scores 37 for auto repair shops (lower middle), #407 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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