Texas Drug Overdose Hotspots — Census Tract Level (2025)
1349 overdose zones across Texas from the CDC Mapping Injury, Overdose & Violence dashboard. Each point represents a group of census tracts with drug overdose deaths. Circle size and color scale with the overdose death rate per 100,000. The highest rates cluster in urban cores — Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso — and along the I-35 corridor. Source: CDC NCHS via data.cdc.gov (data as of March 2026, trailing 12 months through Aug 2025).
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| Name | Filled | Example |
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| name | 100% | Tarrant — Zone 0283 |
| count | 100% | 1-9 |
| title | 100% | Tarrant County |
| county | 100% | Tarrant |
| tracts | 100% | 4 |
| content | 100% | ## Overdose Zone TX-0099-0283 **Rate: 27.1 per 100,000** (t |
| data_display | 100% | 27/100K |
| rate_per_100k | 100% | 27.1 |