Beaumont, TX: 396,827 residents, 139th of 387 US metropolitan areas. A count of the local trades and a read on where advertising is contested and where it is open.
The metropolitan statistical area covers Beaumont and Port Arthur.
A $64,659 median household income puts Beaumont, TX 20 percent below the national figure. Owner-occupied homes carry a median value of $173,600, 48 percent below the national figure; the national comparison point is $332,700. For a business that sells to homeowners, that combination sets the ceiling on what a job is worth.
Of 177,336 people in the labor force, 6.1% are unemployed, about the same as the US share. The median age is 37.7, 1.2 years below the national median, so this is a younger market than the country as a whole. 68.2% of homes are lived in by their owners, 3 points above the US share. A four-year degree or more: 19.5%, 16 points below the US share.
Compared with Texas: income is 18 percent lower than the Texas figure, home values are 39 percent lower than the Texas figure, and business density is 10 percent thinner than the Texas figure.
The establishment count for Beaumont, TX is 7,915. Business density is a first proxy for competition: 19.9 per 1,000 residents, 20 percent below the national figure. The home-services slice is 313 establishments, 4% of the base, about the same as the US share. The single largest category in the table below is restaurants, with 649 locations.
| Category | Locations | Per 100k people | Local ÷ US share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty salons | 38 | 9.6 | 0.48× |
| Personal care services (all) | 75 | 18.9 | 0.49× |
| Landscaping services | 59 | 14.9 | 0.53× |
| General freight trucking | 69 | 17.4 | 0.62× |
| Roofing contractors | 16 | 4 | 0.66× |
| Highway, street and bridge construction | 7 | 1.8 | 0.80× |
| Electrical contractors | 66 | 16.6 | 0.84× |
| Dentists | 108 | 27.2 | 0.84× |
| Other specialty trade contractors (paving, asphalt, fencing) | 36 | 9.1 | 0.89× |
| Concrete foundation and structure contractors | 20 | 5 | 0.90× |
| General automotive repair | 78 | 19.7 | 0.97× |
| Lessors of real estate (all) | 134 | 33.8 | 1.04× |
| Child day care services | 84 | 21.2 | 1.08× |
| Legal services | 187 | 47.1 | 1.09× |
| Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors | 116 | 29.2 | 1.10× |
| Restaurants and other eating places | 649 | 163.5 | 1.11× |
| Automobile dealers | 60 | 15.1 | 1.35× |
| Self-storage facilities | 27 | 6.8 | 1.54× |
| Grocery and convenience retailers | 147 | 37 | 1.55× |
| Physicians' offices | 334 | 84.2 | 1.62× |
Ratio above 1.00: the trade holds a bigger share of the local business base than it does nationally; below 1.00, a smaller one.
The market over-indexes on physicians' offices, grocery stores, self-storage operators and automobile dealers. Physicians' offices stand out with 334 locations, 1.6 times what the national mix would predict. Less common here than nationally: beauty salons, personal care services, landscaping services and general freight trucking. Beauty salons are the thinnest at 38, about half of the national share. Roughly where the national mix would put them: plumbing and HVAC contractors, concrete contractors and specialty trade contractors.
Relative to population the leaders are restaurants (163.5 per 100,000 residents), physicians' offices and legal services. The most numerous of the listed trades: restaurants with 649 establishments, then physicians' offices (334) and legal services (187). The group picture: medical and dental practices above the national pattern at 1.3 times, the home-services trades below it at about 82% of.
physicians' offices, grocery stores and self-storage operators face a full field here. Each new review, each answered call and each page that matches a specific search is a small edge, and the edges add up. Where the base is thin (beauty salons, personal care services and landscaping services), reach beats refinement: cover the service-plus-place searches across the whole area, because there are few competitors to split them with. Income 20 percent below the national figure puts price front and center; ads that state the offer plainly and make calling easy do best. Homeownership of 68.2% is above the national share; more of the households that search for home services are also the ones that decide and pay. Younger residents (median age 1.2 years below the national median) split their attention between search, social feeds and AI assistants, so the presence has to be in all three.
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Beaumont, TX has 396,827 residents (US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimate), ranking 139th of 387 metropolitan areas.
The median household income in Beaumont, TX is $64,659 (ACS 2024 5-year), below the US median of $80,734.
The Census Bureau counts 7,915 employer establishments in Beaumont, TX (County Business Patterns 2023), or 19.9 businesses per 1,000 residents.
The median home value in Beaumont, TX is $173,600, and 68.2% of homes are owner-occupied (ACS 2024 5-year).
Measured against the US business mix (County Business Patterns 2023), physicians' offices, grocery stores and self-storage operators have more establishments per resident than the US average; beauty salons, personal care services and landscaping services have fewer in Beaumont, TX.
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Data: US Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates and County Business Patterns 2023. Updated 2026-09-29.