Health care · Small-town market · Texas
Optometrists and eye clinics in the Mineral Wells, TX area
How the Mineral Wells, TX area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for optometrists and eye clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $11.7M
- On medical and dental services · $1,038 a household
- Spending per listing
- $11.7M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.9
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 30,791
- +8.2% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 optometrist or eye clinic in the Mineral Wells area. That is 0.9 per 10,000 households.
At $1,038 per household (19% below the U.S. average), households in the Mineral Wells area spend about $11.7M a year on medical and dental services. That is about $11.7M of household spending for each practice on map listings. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which optometrists and eye clinics share with other businesses in the trade.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of optometrists in the Mineral Wells area: counts under 3 aren’t published.
Population estimates put the population change in the Mineral Wells area from 2020 to 2025 at +8.2%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 1 optometrist or eye clinic on map listings, the Mineral Wells area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Mineral Wells area compares
The same measures for Texas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the optometrists and eye clinics 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 | Mineral Wells area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.9 | 4.5 | 4.1 |
| Spending per listing | $11.7M | $2.6M | $3.1M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 5,202 | 5,742 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +2.7% | +0.2% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +8.2% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,038 | $1,164 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $67,674 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 35 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 4The 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 offices of optometrists in the Mineral Wells 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 Mineral Wells area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 30,791+8.2% since 2020
- Households
- 11,234
- Median age
- 42.1
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 953 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 31
- Median household income
- $67,674+34.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,412
- Median home value
- $198,000
- Jobs located here
- 7,485
- Daytime population
- 26,246Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Huntsville, TX | 70 | 7 | 2.7 | $3.5M | +9.5% | #59 of 400 |
| 2Paris, TX | 68 | 7 | 2.8 | $3.6M | +2.6% | #67 of 400 |
| 3Jacksonville, TX | 67 | 5 | 2.7 | $3.7M | +5.4% | #74 of 400 |
| 4Athens, TX | 64 | 11 | 3.3 | $3.2M | +7.5% | #95 of 400 |
| 5Palestine, TX | 62 | 5 | 2.8 | $3.5M | +3.2% | #111 of 400 |
| 6Lufkin, TX | 59 | 9 | 2.8 | $3.6M | +1.9% | #126 of 400 |
| 7Gainesville, TX | 57 | 7 | 4.2 | $2.7M | +6.5% | #147 of 400 |
| 8Mount Pleasant, TX | 54 | 8 | 3.8 | $2.6M | +2.5% | #175 of 400 |
| 9Granbury, TX | 50 | 13 | 5.1 | $2.3M | +13.6% | #213 of 400 |
| 10Bay City, TX | 48 | 5 | 3.2 | $3.1M | +0.5% | #223 of 400 |
| Mineral Wells, TX | Not scored | 1 | 0.9 | $11.7M | +8.2% |
Other business types in the Mineral Wells area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
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Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many optometrists and eye clinics are in the Mineral Wells, TX area?
There is 1 optometrist or eye clinic on map listings in the Mineral Wells area as of September 2026. The listings count optometrists and eye clinics. No official count is published for offices of optometrists in the Mineral Wells area: counts under 3 are left out.
How much do households in the Mineral Wells, TX area spend on medical and dental services?
About $11.7M a year, or $1,038 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 optometrist or eye clinic on map listings, it comes to $11.7M per practice. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only optometrists and eye clinics. It is estimated from the incomes of the 11,234 households in the Mineral Wells area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Mineral Wells, TX area compare with the U.S. for optometrists and eye clinics?
The Mineral Wells area has 1 optometrist or eye clinic on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of optometrists and eye clinics to household spending, the Mineral Wells area would have about 4, against 1 on map listings.
How fast is the Mineral Wells, TX area growing?
Population estimates put the Mineral Wells area at 30,791 people in 2025, up 8.2% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 11,234 households. The median household income in the Mineral Wells area is $67,674 a year, 16% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 34.9% from the 2015–2019 survey, 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 Mineral Wells area has no market score for optometrists and eye clinics: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
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