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Home repair companies in Matagorda County, TX
Competitor counts, household spending and official business counts for home repair companies in Matagorda County, TX, set against other counties and the U.S.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 57 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #706 of 2,057 scored counties
#47 of 140 scored counties in Texas
- Listings
- 17
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 12
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $39.8M
- On home repairs, maintenance and insurance · $2,576 a household
- Spending per listing
- $2.3M
- 4% below the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 11.0
- 11% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 36,463
- +0.5% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 17 home repair companies in Matagorda County. None of them are chain locations, against 4% across the U.S. That comes to 11.0 for every 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 12.4.
Households in Matagorda County spend about $39.8M a year on home repairs, maintenance and insurance, or $2,576 per household, 15% below the U.S. average. That is about $2.3M of household spending for each company on map listings, 4% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Matagorda County was 12 in 2023. That is one for every 1,287 households, against one for every 587 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $15K has gone to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in Matagorda County.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Matagorda County grew 0.5%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). For home repair companies, Matagorda County has a Groundwork market score of 57 (upper middle): #706 of 2,057 scored counties and #47 of 140 scored counties in Texas.
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 home repairs, maintenance and insurance by the home repair companies 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 | 11.0 | 15.2 | 12.4 |
| Spending per listing | $2.3M | $2M | $2.4M |
| Households per official establishment | 1,287 | 627 | 587 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +16.3% | +9.6% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +0.5% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on home repairs, maintenance and insurance | $2,576 | $3,015 | $3,018 |
| Median household income | $58,628 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 57 | 55 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13 → 12
- Employees, 2023
- 44
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.9M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 170 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 16The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $15K
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Chambers County, TX | 95 | 14 | 8.1 | $4.1M | +22.6% | #1 of 2,057 |
| 2Travis County, TX | 79 | 688 | 11.8 | $2.9M | +7.2% | #59 of 2,057 |
| 3Atascosa County, TX | 77 | 10 | 6.0 | $4.5M | +8.7% | #80 of 2,057 |
| 4Denton County, TX | 76 | 535 | 14.8 | $2.4M | +16.9% | #94 of 2,057 |
| 5Fort Bend County, TX | 76 | 454 | 15.5 | $2.3M | +17.4% | #95 of 2,057 |
| 6Coryell County, TX | 75 | 21 | 7.8 | $3.5M | +3.0% | #101 of 2,057 |
| 7Caldwell County, TX | 73 | 13 | 7.8 | $3.5M | +20.0% | #139 of 2,057 |
| 8San Jacinto County, TX | 73 | 9 | 8.3 | $3.2M | +7.1% | #142 of 2,057 |
| 9San Patricio County, TX | 73 | 24 | 9.5 | $2.9M | +4.7% | #146 of 2,057 |
| 10Panola County, TX | 71 | 7 | 7.9 | $3.5M | +2.3% | #179 of 2,057 |
| 47Matagorda County, TX | 57 | 17 | 11.0 | $2.3M | +0.5% | #706 of 2,057 |
Other business types in Matagorda County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Clothing and laundry
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Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many home repair companies are in Matagorda County, TX?
There are 17 home repair companies on map listings in Matagorda County as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and gutter companies. Official counts show 12 businesses with payroll classed as plumbing, HVAC, electrical and roofing contractors in 2023.
How much do households in Matagorda County, TX spend on home repairs, maintenance and insurance?
About $39.8M a year, or $2,576 per household. That is 15% below the U.S. average (an index of 85, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 17 home repair companies on map listings, it comes to $2.3M per company. 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 home repair companies?
Matagorda County has 11.0 home repair companies per 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 12.4. Spending per company is $2.3M, 4% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the national ratio of home repair companies to household spending, Matagorda County would have about 16, against 17 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,287 households, against one for every 587 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 57 for home repair companies (upper middle), #706 of 2,057 scored counties.
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