Data · Texas non-subscribers
Texas employers without workers' compensation coverage, by county
Texas lets most private employers opt out of workers' compensation. Those that do file a notice with the state each year. This is how many filed, and how many have a location in each county, from the Division of Workers' Compensation's own filings. No company names are kept.
What is in this dataset?
Texas does not require most private employers to carry workers' compensation insurance. Employers that opt out file a notice of no coverage (DWC Form-005) with the state each year. This dataset counts those filings from October 2024 to September 2026: for the state, and for each county with at least five non-subscribing employers, the employers with a location in the county, their locations and the filings by year. Counties with fewer than five are combined. Employers are businesses: no company names or addresses are kept. A ZIP code is placed in the county that holds most of its land.
Use it to see where injured workers in Texas may have no workers' compensation to turn to: which counties have the most employers that opted out, as context for personal-injury and workplace-injury marketing in Texas. Agents can look up the state, compare several counties or search by county name.
- Records
- 239
- Look up by
- 1
- state
- Primary-source records
- 239
The letters are explained in what P, S, D and U mean.
Where does the data come from?
The Texas Department of Insurance publishes the non-subscriber employer filings on the Texas Open Data Portal. Only the filing id, five-digit ZIP, city, filing year and record type are requested, grouped on the server, so company names and street addresses are never fetched. ZIP codes are placed in counties with the Census 2020 ZCTA-to-county file (the county with most of the ZIP's land), and a ZIP that is not a ZCTA goes to the county of the same city's other ZIPs when they all fall in one county. A gate re-runs the full aggregation against the live portal.
- Period covered
- October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026
- Places
- States and counties
- How often we refresh it
- Every month
- Records read
- October 30, 2026
Official sources
- Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation, by official API. Public information published by a state agency on the Texas Open Data Portal, which states no license for this data set. Only counts are kept: no company name or address is requested or published.
- U.S. Census Bureau, by bulk download. A work of the U.S. government (17 U.S.C. 105): the 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file.
The sources the records cite most
What does a record look like?
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Texas, filings received 2024-10-01 through 2026-09-30: 17,487 private employers filed a DWC notice that they have no workers' compensation coverage; 17,235 list at least one Texas address, with 88,863 Texas locations in 248 counties.
Status P · checked October 30, 2026 · source: Texas DWC non-subscriber employer information (Texas Open Data Portal)
The full records add the dates, the quoted source text and every field in the CSV and JSON files below.
What each of the 19 main columns means
jurisdiction- TX
level- state, county, small-counties or county-not-recorded
county- Five-digit county FIPS code
countyName- County name
status- P: the state agency's own filings
value- Filings (state), non-subscribing employers (county), employers in small counties, or locations with no county
employers- Employers with at least one Texas location in the county (an employer in two counties counts in both)
locations- Location rows of those employers in the county
employers_2024- Employers whose notice was received in 2024 (October to December)
employers_2025- Employers whose notice was received in 2025
employers_2026- Employers whose notice was received in 2026 (to September)
filings- State record: notices of no coverage (DWC Form-005) in the file
filings_texas- State record: filings with at least one Texas address
filings_no_texas_address- State record: filings with no Texas address
counties- Number of counties with at least one non-subscribing employer (state record) or in the small-counties record
filings_2024- State record: filings received in 2024
filings_2025- State record: filings received in 2025
filings_2026- State record: filings received in 2026
dataThrough- Last filing date in the data
How do I use it in my own tools?
txnonsub_lookup- For the key TX: the state totals and every county with five or more non-subscribing employers, with locations and filings by year.
txnonsub_compare- The Texas record for TX with its counties side by side: employers, locations and filings by year.
txnonsub_search- Records whose text matches the words given, such as a county name ("Harris County") or "small counties".
How to cite this dataset
You can reuse, adapt and republish this data, including commercially, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). The only condition is that you credit Probative and link to the source.
- Version
- 1.0.0, released October 30, 2026
- Every version
- 10.5281/zenodo.23792846 (always points to the newest)
- License
- CC BY 4.0
Download the data
- CSV: tx-nonsubscribers.csv 150 KB · one row per record (columns in README.txt)
- JSON: tx-nonsubscribers.json 347 KB · every record with its sources
Free, no email or login. The files are hosted on this site and Zenodo, a public research archive.
Suggested citation
Probative. (2026). Texas employers without workers' compensation coverage (non-subscribers), by county (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792847
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Source: Probative, Texas employers without workers' compensation coverage (non-subscribers), by county, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792847, licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Not legal advice. These are counts of notices that employers filed with the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation. A non-subscribing employer can be sued for its negligence by an injured worker, but whether any claim exists depends on the facts; claims and deadlines are for your own counsel. The count of employers is a floor: not every non-subscriber files, and a filing covers a year.
What changed recently?
- 2026-10-30 · Texas employers that told the state they have no workers' compensation coverage, counted by county from DWC Form-005 filings received 2024-10 through 2026-09: 17,487 filings. (source)
The full log is in changes.json.
What are the limits?
- Only private employers that opted out and filed a notice are counted. Not every non-subscriber files, so the count is a floor.
- A filing covers a year, and the file holds a rolling window of filings: an employer that filed in both years appears in both. The employer counts by year are not additive.
- An employer with locations in two counties counts in each, so county counts add up to more than the state's employers. Locations add up to the state's Texas locations.
- The county comes from the ZIP code: each ZIP goes to the county that holds most of its land, and a PO box ZIP goes to the county of the same city's other ZIPs when they all fall in one county. Locations whose ZIP cannot be placed are in the state's not-recorded record.
- Counties with fewer than five non-subscribing employers are combined, so a small business is not singled out.
- This says nothing about whether an injured worker has a claim.
- Records older than 60 days since their last check are marked
stalein the files until we re-check them. Every confirmed error we fix is listed in the data corrections log.
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