Funeral services · Metro area · Texas
Funeral homes in the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area
How the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 62 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #114 of 377 scored metro areas
#6 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas
- Listings
- 28
- 3 chain locations (11%)
- Official establishments
- 12
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $20.1M
- On funerals · $145 a household
- Spending per listing
- $719K
- 6% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 2.0
- 5% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 433,946
- +3.0% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 28 funeral homes in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area. Of those, 3 are chain locations, or 11%, against 10% across the U.S. That comes to 2.0 for every 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Household spending on funerals in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area comes to about $20.1M a year: $145 per household, 2% above the U.S. average. That works out to $719K per home, 6% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
In 2023, official counts showed 12 businesses with payroll in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area classed as funeral homes and funeral services. That is one for every 11,536 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
Population estimates put the population change in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area from 2020 to 2025 at +3.0%, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). For funeral homes, the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area has a Groundwork market score of 62 (upper middle): #114 of 377 scored metro areas and #6 of 26 scored metro areas based in Texas.
How the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area compares
The same measures for Texas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes 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 | Brownsville-Harlingen metro area | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $719K | $693K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 11,536 | 11,194 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −1.3% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.0% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $145 | $121 | $143 |
| Median household income | $52,601 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 62 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12
- Employees, 2023
- 118
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $4.2M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 283 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 30The 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 funeral homes and funeral services in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro 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 Brownsville-Harlingen metro area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 433,946+3.0% since 2020
- Households
- 138,433
- Median age
- 33.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 65%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 892 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 478
- Median household income
- $52,601+35.7% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $71,931
- Median home value
- $136,500
- Jobs located here
- 146,355
- Daytime population
- 405,619Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top metro areas in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | 74 | 85 | 0.9 | $1.1M | +14.0% | #51 of 377 |
| 2San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 73 | 115 | 1.2 | $1.1M | +9.5% | #59 of 377 |
| 3Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 68 | 352 | 1.2 | $924K | +10.6% | #80 of 377 |
| 4Tyler, TX | 68 | 16 | 1.9 | $848K | +7.8% | #81 of 377 |
| 5Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | 65 | 357 | 1.3 | $842K | +10.3% | #94 of 377 |
| 6Brownsville-Harlingen, TX | 62 | 28 | 2.0 | $719K | +3.0% | #114 of 377 |
| 7El Paso, TX | 61 | 32 | 1.1 | $1.2M | +1.3% | #115 of 377 |
| 8Killeen-Temple, TX | 55 | 32 | 1.8 | $629K | +7.2% | #148 of 377 |
| 9Sherman-Denison, TX | 54 | 18 | 3.3 | $465K | +12.8% | #154 of 377 |
| 10McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX | 52 | 56 | 2.1 | $648K | +5.6% | #163 of 377 |
Other business types in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area?
The Brownsville-Harlingen metro area has 28 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. 3 of them (11%) are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 12 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area spend on funerals?
About $20.1M a year, or $145 per household. That is 2% above the U.S. average (an index of 102, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $719K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 138,433 households in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Brownsville-Harlingen metro area has 2.0 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 5% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $719K, 6% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area would have about 30, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 11,536 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area growing?
Population estimates put the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area at 433,946 people in 2025, up 3.0% since 2020, in step with the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 138,433 households. Median household income in the Brownsville-Harlingen metro area is $52,601, 35% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 35.7%, 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. 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 Brownsville-Harlingen metro area scores 62 for funeral homes (upper middle), #114 of 377 scored metro areas.
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