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Jim Wells County, TX

Banking market profile · FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 30, 2025

Jim Wells County, Texas, a core county of the Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX market, holds $570M in deposits across 7 insured institutions and 8 branches. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association is the largest deposit holder at 33.6% share. The top three institutions hold 78.9% of deposits, which places the county in the concentrated band. Deposits have grown 14.7% since 2020 while the branch count fell by 1. It produces $1.6B of output, ranking #1,012 of the 1,523 counties within a CSA or MSA by economic output.

2024 Real GDP
$1.6B
#1,012 of 1,523
Total Deposits
$570M
#1,165 of 1,523
Population
38,804
#1,042 of 1,523
GDP per Capita
$41,890
#844 of 1,523
Insured Institutions
7
#967 of 1,523
Deposits per Branch
$71M
#1,055 of 1,523
Deposits per Capita
$14,676
#1,210 of 1,523
Branches per 100k Pop.
20.6
#963 of 1,523
Median Institution Size
$59M
Median deposits of the institutions operating in the county. #1,323 of 1,523. A smaller figure signals a market served mainly by community-scale banks.
Community & Regional Bank Share
66.4%
of market deposits held by banks with $100M to $50B in assets. #737 of 1,523. A higher share points to a market where small to mid-size institutions, the kind that compete on relationships and local decision-making, hold more ground.
Top-3 Deposit Share: concentrated
78.9%
The combined deposit share of the three largest institutions in the county. A lower share means deposits are spread across more institutions.

Deposit trend

Total county deposits, 2020 to 2025+14.7% over 5 years
$496M
2020
$519M
2021
$544M
2022
$571M
2023
$552M
2024
$570M
2025

Branches: 9 in 2020 to 8 in 2025. Institutions: 8 to 7. Top-three share: 76.4% to 78.9%.

Leading institutions by deposits

InstitutionDepositsShareBranches5‑yr
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association$191M33.6%1-6%
First Community Bank$173M30.3%2+69%
Prosperity Bank$86M15.1%1+17%
ValueBank Texas$59M10.4%1-5%
Texas Champion Bank$36M6.4%1+69%
International Bank of Commerce$17M3.0%1+33%
First National Bank Texas$7M1.2%1+16%

The 7 insured institutions with a branch presence in this county, as of June 30, 2025. Five-year change compares the same institution’s county deposits in 2020 and 2025. Institutions are tracked by FDIC certificate number, and where an institution acquired another bank, the acquired bank’s prior deposits are folded into the baseline so the change reflects the combined, continuing franchise rather than reading as new. Even so, a large gain can reflect acquisition rather than organic growth; “no 2020 presence” means neither the institution nor a bank it later absorbed reported deposits in this county that year.

Part of the Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice market

Jim Wells County is one of 6 counties that make up the Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice, TX market, a Combined Statistical Area (ranked #102 of 293 U.S. markets by economic output). It produces 5.7% of the market’s output and holds 6.2% of its deposits.

MeasureJim Wells CountyShare of Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice market
2024 GDP$1.6B5.7%
Deposits$570M6.2%
Population38,8047.4%

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Recruiting in Jim Wells County

Deposits are held closely by the largest banks, which often means the bankers worth recruiting are inside a small number of institutions. Who holds the deposits, and how contested the market is, shapes both the runway for growth and the competition you would be recruiting against. We recruit commercial relationship managers, banking teams, and market leaders for banks building in markets like Jim Wells County, on a retained basis.

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