State Profile

Texas

Population (2023): 30,503 million

Texas is a high performer for emergency preparedness, but its health outcomes are generally worse than other states. The state placed in the high performance tier for public health emergency preparedness in TFAH’s 2024 Ready or Not: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report. Deaths within the state due to drug misuse, alcohol, or suicide outpace the country as a whole. Based on 2022 data, the percentage of adults with obesity and diabetes rank higher than the U.S. median. In addition, the rates of hypertension rank similarly to the U.S. median.