This is per an effeminate guy on You Tube who looked at crime, household income, unemployment, and weather and some other stuff... I dont know man!

So its very science based and must be true.

10. Rio Grande City
9. Freeport
8. Weslaco
7. Tomball
6. Vidor
5. Mercedes
4. Galveston
3. Donna
2. Port Arthur

And... drum roll please. Per the effeminate guy on You Tube, the worst place to live in Texas is...

JACKSONVILLE!

Horray Jacksonville!

Here is the link if you want to see for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrxYKuqaVhI

Arlington did not make the list... So Ratz and Butch, hold your heads high gentleman! As you laugh at the Rio Grande Valley for being so poor and crime ridden!

South Texas, our Hispanic brothers don’t like that [censored]

The Valley and the Gulf Coast

Driven through Jacksonville multiple times. Didn’t look too bad.
Rest of the list looks about right.

Ballinger.

Thought vidor was Louisiana. Lived n Beaumont for a year or so in my late teens.

I've always known that up here in the panhandle is a great place to be.

Obviously never been to west Texas.

I thought Tomball was a rich suburb of Houston. I don’t know how Jacksonville beat out Hearn. Vidor must be on there because of there unpleasant political history.

Surprised Tomball made the list. Doesn’t seem like a bad place to live at all.

Malakoff should be on this list.

Jacksonville has a Baptist Seminary and a jr college that are both owned by the same conservative group of baptist churches. Also, jr college that at one time was under Methodist control.
I can see why some folks would not want to live there.

I played a bar in Malakoff years ago named the Coal Miner's.
At the time I didn't give a second thought to the fact there weren't any coal mines in the area.
That's the extent of my Malakoff knowledge.