A higher count of school dropouts (grades 7-12) within certain counties looks to be visually correlated with a higher amount of trafficking. Counties with larger populations, such as Harris, Dallas, Bexar, and Tarrant, tend to show both higher trafficking victim counts and higher dropout counts, suggesting that education-related vulnerability may overlap with trafficking risk in some areas.

This graph compares trafficking rates with poverty rates across the Texas counties with the most trafficking. Some counties, such as Hidalgo and El Paso, show higher poverty rates alongside notably high trafficking rates, while larger metropolitan counties still report high trafficking rates even when poverty rates are lower.