Ranger, Texas electricity: Oncor wires and 1,368 competitive homes

Ranger wires and choice

Oncor outages: oncor.com/outages. Oncor

Ranger's 1,366 placed homes sit in unsplit ZIP codes; a lookup still confirms each address.

Non-choice utilities listed by EIA (2024) for Eastland: 3.

Moving to Ranger

Local numbers for setting up a home in Ranger, each checked on the official source. More contacts, and a printable list, are on Ranger helpful move-in information.

• Water and utility billing: utility billing (start, transfer or stop water service), 254-647-3522.
• Natural gas: Atmos Energy: customer service, 888-286-6700.
• Public schools: Ranger ISD.
• Driver license: Texas DPS Driver License Office: Eastland, 512-424-2600.

Moving to Ranger? Line up electricity before move-in day, not after the first electric bill arrives. Water and gas service with Atmos Energy each need their own start-service steps too.

Set Up Electricity for Your Move

You enter your address on the next screen, and we confirm there whether you can choose an electricity provider at that address.

Weather and electricity in Ranger

Typical weather near Ranger, from the nearest NOAA station with a complete 1991-2020 record: Eastland, about 10 miles from the city center (station elevation 1,438 ft). These are normals for that station, not readings at your address. August is the warmest month on average, with a normal daily high of 96°F; January has the coolest average low, 30°F. Average daily highs reach 90°F or more in June to August. Average lows are at or below freezing in January and December.

For electricity, the normals point to two seasons that can lift a household's usage: cooling-degree days (a measure of how far each day's mean temperature sits above 65°F) peak in July at 555 for the month, and heating-degree days (below 65°F) peak in January at 648. How much that matters to a bill depends on the home, its insulation, its heating fuel and the household, so use your own usage history, not a regional average, when you compare plans.

Historical weather records for Eastland County

The Texas Railroad Commission's county table lists a record low of -8°F (1989) and a record high of 115°F (1943), and a regional estimate of 30 consecutive hours as a typical longest freezing or frozen-precipitation period for Eastland County. These are historical county extremes, not Ranger's monthly averages and not a forecast; the normals above describe ordinary months.

Reference only: the U.S. Energy Information Administration's 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey puts the average Texas household at about 13,440 kWh a year (about 1,120 kWh a month if spread evenly). That is a statewide average for 2020, not Ranger, and not an estimate for your home. EIA source.

Sources: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, station USC00412715; Texas Railroad Commission, Historical Weather Data by County (2022).

Ranger electricity, in numbers and sources

• Land: 7.0 sq mi (water 0.1); 334 residents and 148 households per sq mi; 2.26 people per Ranger household. [Gazetteer; PEP; ACS]
• Heating fuel, Ranger homes (ACS 2020-2024): electricity 44.5% (±7), utility gas 50.8%, propane 4.6%; Eastland County overall: 52.8% electric. [ACS]
• Of Ranger homes paying a power bill, 28.3% report $250 or more a month and 23.8% under $100 (Eastland County: 33.5% at $250+). [ACS]
• Housing stock: 66.8% detached houses, 7.4% in 5+ unit buildings, 17.6% mobile homes; median year built 1959, 2.1% built 2010 or later. [ACS]
• Ranger-addressed home meters on Oct. 5, 2026: 1,368 active, 389 inactive, 375 de-energized, so 35.8% were not in use (ERCOT). [ERCOT]
• ACS 2020-2024: 20.6% of Ranger housing units vacant (±8). Vacant homes keep meters that are not counted as households. [ACS]
• 1,368 home meters use the Ranger postal name, against 1,035 households inside city limits (1.32 per household): the mailing area runs well past the boundary. [ERCOT; ACS]
• 76470 carries every one of Ranger's placed homes; ratio across the whole ZIP 1.05, from 1,368 home meters in all and 1,308 households. [ERCOT; ACS]

Ranger homes: heating fuel, bills, housing

ACS 2020-2024, the city (Census boundary). Bill rows are shares of homes that pay an electric bill.

Ranger meters and households

ERCOT report 203, Oct. 5, 2026 (Ranger postal city) and Census. CSV · Method

Ranger plan prices, October 19, 2026

Median fixed-rate Power to Choose listings. Oncor (170 listings): 14.1¢ / 13.4¢ / 13.2¢ per kWh at 500 / 1,000 / 2,000 kWh, delivery 6.8673¢ + $4.06/mo included. Not a quote.

Ranger ZIP codes, row by row

Not every address in these ZIP codes has retail choice; check your exact address.

Ranger split ZIP codes: none.

Towns around Ranger

Ranger businesses

579 Ranger-addressed business meters; 1 large-class meters across its main ZIP codes (ERCOT). Request a business rate review.

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Ranger questions

Near Ranger

Wires and county: Oncor · Eastland. Nearby pages: Breckenridge (24 mi) · Cisco (19 mi) · De Leon (26 mi) · Dublin (33 mi) · Eastland (9 mi) · Stephenville (32 mi)

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Sources

• ERCOT TDSP ESIID Extract (report 203): full extract as of Oct 5, 2026; daily files Oct 7-18, 2026
• Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B25040, B25132, B25024, B25034, B25035, B25018, B19013, B25003, B25002, B25004 (90% margins of error)
• Census Vintage 2025 city and town population estimates
• Census 2020 ZCTA-to-place and ZCTA-to-county relationship files
• EIA-861 (2024) utility service territories by county
• PUCT Power to Choose residential offer export, Oct 19, 2026, 7:59 AM CT
• PUCT: Choosing an Electric Plan
• PUCT broker directory (BR260201)
• Oncor Electric Delivery
• Oncor delivery tariff (effective October 4, 2026)
• Census Bureau 2025 Gazetteer Files, Texas places (land and water area)

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