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Webb County

Leading80.0↑ improvingComposite · JPAS72Completeness MediumCounty · Texas

Population 281,224 · Census Bureau Vintage-2025 estimate

Last scored Oct 28, 2026 · Data may be stale

Composite · JPAS tier readings

Power

Power73sourced

Power reads 73 of 100, sourced evidence. Power measures grid capacity, interconnection-queue depth, generation mix, retail price and substation density. Interconnection-queue depth is an estimated roll-up (EST); queue vintage PJM 2026-04-28, CAISO 2025-02-12.

Politics

Regulatory100sourced

Regulatory reads 100 of 100, sourced evidence. Regulatory measures air-quality designation under the Clean Air Act and commercial permitting activity. Regulatory is evidenced by air-quality designation and permitting activity; a county absent from EPA's nonattainment list reads as attainment. Attainment here is by absence of an EPA designation; EPA's county list is complete, so absence reads as attainment.

Community81sourced

Community reads 81 of 100, sourced evidence. Community measures enacted moratoria, pending legislation and farmland share as signals of local consent.

Incentives100estimated

Incentives reads 100 of 100, estimated evidence. Incentives measures state program baselines and disclosed awards for data-center and industrial projects.

Resources

Water60sourced

Water reads 60 of 100, sourced evidence. Water measures drinking-water system health, basin stress, streamflow and groundwater conditions.

Real estate / site44sourced

Real estate / site reads 44 of 100, sourced evidence. Real estate / site measures developable land share, convertible sites, substation hosting and permit velocity.

Environmental17sourced

Environmental reads 17 of 100, sourced evidence. Environmental measures FEMA hazard risk across riverine, coastal, wind, wildfire and related perils.

Labor76sourced

Labor reads 76 of 100, sourced evidence. Labor measures electrician depth, wages, unemployment and prevailing-wage floors in the county labor market.

Connectivity

Connectivity is not yet activated as a brief section; the Network tier reading is shown.

Network94sourced

Network reads 94 of 100, sourced evidence. Network measures broadband availability, fiber and middle-mile programs, and exchange-point proximity.

Density · JDS

Density · Minimal · 18 of 100

Data-center density is absent in this county (JDS Minimal, 18 of 100). County grain: computed from facilities, construction and permitted projects resolved to this county.

Trajectory · JTS

  • ModeledJTS-01 Trajectory rate of change — flat — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-02 Inflection points — flat — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • ModeledJTS-03 Trajectory volatility — flat — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-04 Momentum — rising — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-05 Forecast confidence decay — flat — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.

Windows held: 2026. Direction and evidence label only; horizons extend only as data lands.

Water & Cooling Readiness

Water System Capacity & Utilization5.0/5 · DirectSRC
Water Service Provider Coverage & Type—DirectSRC
Basin Water Stress Index2/5 · Elevated stressNo dataINF
Regulatory Compliance & Violation History4/5 · FavorableDirectSRC
Reclaimed / Non-Potable Water Availability—No dataSRC
Streamflow Condition & Trend2/5 · Elevated stressState-inheritedEST
Groundwater Drawdown Trend3/5 · NormalState-inheritedEST

Water posture inferred from statewide data; no jurisdiction-level water measurement is available.

Gauge data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

How Webb County leans — five dimensions, one composite

JPS Score Breakdown · Jurisdiction Posture Score

Regulatory
4.0
Permitting
3.0
Power Grid
4.0
Community Response
5.0
Incentives
5.0

Infrastructure Map

Faraday's Read

Webb County currently carries a Leading posture tier with a strong composite score of 87.5, placing it among the better-positioned jurisdictions in the dataset, though no breakdown by individual dimension is available to explain what drives that standing. The attribute evidence base is broadest and most reliable in environmental, power, water, network, and labor categories, each backed by sourced-level confidence (0.85) across multiple attributes, suggesting a reasonably well-documented picture of site fundamentals in those areas. Incentives and regulatory attributes, by contrast, rest on a single estimated-confidence data point each, so the data here is thin and any read on incentive or regulatory posture should be treated as tentative at best. Overall evidence quality is rated Good (74.17) with Medium completeness (60), indicating the record is solid but not fully built out. There are no known operational facilities recorded in the jurisdiction, and the forecast direction is listed as stable, though that signal itself carries no scored confidence.

Gilbert Faraday · Jul 17, 2026

Recent Signals

No signal events in the past 30 days for this jurisdiction.

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