Open data · Press kit · Plan year 2026

Data & press: take the numbers with you

Everything on this page is free to republish with attribution — built for journalists, researchers, and anyone who wants the receipts behind our Texas insurance terrain study.

The county map

What the cheapest available plan costs a 40-year-old in each of the 254 counties. Embed it, print it, or drop it into an article — the attribution line is baked in.

Choropleth map of Texas: lowest available monthly marketplace premium for a 40-year-old by county, plan year 2026, ranging $320 to $581

Download: SVG (vector, 97 KB) · PNG (1200px). Hover any county in the SVG for its figures.

The dataset

One CSV row per county: plan count, insurer count, and minimum/median monthly premiums at ages 21, 40 and 60 (plus median Silver at 40). Companion file: the official rating-area-to-county mapping as JSON.

tx_health_marketplace_by_county_2026.csv — 254 rows
tx_health_rating_areas.json — 27 rating areas, per 28 Tex. Admin. Code §3.504

License & how to cite

Our derived figures are free to use, share, and republish, commercially or not, with attribution: "RateTerrain analysis of CMS Exchange Public Use Files" and a link to rateterrain.com. The underlying CMS files are U.S. federal public data. Premiums are full filed prices before any premium tax credit.

For journalists

Need a custom cut — one metro, one age band, year-over-year once 2027 files land in late October? Write us; same-day turnaround for working press. Figures update with each federal data refresh (current build: imported 2026-07-28).