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Funeral homes in Matagorda County, TX
How Matagorda County, TX compares with other counties and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 30 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #1,214 of 1,472 scored counties
#89 of 97 scored counties in Texas
- Listings
- 6
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 3
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $1.9M
- On funerals · $122 a household
- Spending per listing
- $314K
- 54% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 3.9
- 86% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 36,463
- +0.5% since 2020
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What this means
For funeral homes, Matagorda County has a Groundwork market score of 30 (lower middle): #1,214 of 1,472 scored counties and #89 of 97 scored counties in Texas. That puts it in the bottom quarter of counties.
Map listings as of September 2026 show 6 funeral homes in Matagorda County. None of them are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. That is 3.9 per 10,000 households, 86% above the U.S. rate of 2.1.
Household spending on funerals in Matagorda County comes to about $1.9M a year: $122 per household, 14% below the U.S. average. Spread across 6 funeral homes, that is $314K per home, 54% below the U.S. figure of $679K.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in Matagorda County was 3 in 2023. That is one for every 5,146 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Population estimates show Matagorda County grew 0.5% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How Matagorda County 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 | Matagorda County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 3.9 | 1.7 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $314K | $693K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 5,146 | 11,194 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −1.3% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.5% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $122 | $121 | $143 |
| Median household income | $58,628 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 30 | 61 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4 → 3
- Employees, 2023
- 14
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $744K
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 60 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 3The 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 Matagorda County, 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 Matagorda County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 36,463+0.5% since 2020
- Households
- 15,439
- Median age
- 37.9
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 68%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,093 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 33
- Median household income
- $58,628+19.9% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $78,037
- Median home value
- $172,900
- Jobs located here
- 10,447
- Daytime population
- 29,261Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wood County, TX | 87 | 5 | 2.7 | $752K | +10.3% | #36 of 1,472 |
| 2Comal County, TX | 84 | 7 | 1.0 | $1.4M | +27.9% | #43 of 1,472 |
| 3Parker County, TX | 82 | 9 | 1.6 | $915K | +23.5% | #51 of 1,472 |
| 4Williamson County, TX | 80 | 16 | 0.6 | $1.8M | +22.3% | #64 of 1,472 |
| 5Fort Bend County, TX | 80 | 23 | 0.8 | $1.5M | +17.4% | #66 of 1,472 |
| 6Denton County, TX | 79 | 20 | 0.6 | $1.9M | +16.9% | #72 of 1,472 |
| 7Collin County, TX | 79 | 30 | 0.7 | $1.5M | +20.6% | #74 of 1,472 |
| 8Smith County, TX | 77 | 16 | 1.9 | $848K | +7.8% | #112 of 1,472 |
| 9Kendall County, TX | 77 | 6 | 3.4 | $519K | +19.6% | #114 of 1,472 |
| 10Hays County, TX | 75 | 9 | 0.9 | $1.1M | +24.8% | #135 of 1,472 |
| 89Matagorda County, TX | 30 | 6 | 3.9 | $314K | +0.5% | #1,214 of 1,472 |
Other business types in Matagorda County
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 Matagorda County, TX?
There are 6 funeral homes on map listings in Matagorda County as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 3 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in Matagorda County, TX spend on funerals?
About $1.9M a year, or $122 per household. That is 14% below the U.S. average (an index of 86, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 6 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $314K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 15,439 households in Matagorda County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Matagorda County, TX compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
Matagorda County has 3.9 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 86% above the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $314K, 54% below the U.S. figure of $679K. At the national ratio of funeral homes to household spending, Matagorda County would have about 3, against 6 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 5,146 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is Matagorda County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Matagorda County at 36,463 people in 2025, up 0.5% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 15,439 households. Median household income in Matagorda County is $58,628, 27% below the U.S. median of $80,734. Against the 2015–2019 survey, the median rose 19.9%, 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. 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. Matagorda County scores 30 for funeral homes (lower middle), #1,214 of 1,472 scored counties.
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