HRC’s annual Municipal Equality Index shows 5 Texas cities got top scores From Staff Reports The Human Rights Campaign has released its 2022 Municipal Equality Index, and 25 Texas cities have made the list, although only 10 of the 25 scored better than 50 percent.
Of those 10, eight were among the state’s 10 largest cities. Texas cities receiving a top score of 100 were Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Austin and San Antonio.
Houston, the largest city in Texas, scored 73, while Denton came in at 94. Also scoring about 50 percent were Plano at 64, Irving at 59, Corpus Christi at 58 and Waco at 56.
Both Brownsville at Mesquite scored a 46, followed by Amarillo at 43, Grand Prairie at 38 and Lubbock and McKinney at 36. Killen scored 29, followed by Pasadena at 26, Garland at 24, and College Station, Laredo and Round Rock each with 22.