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Get results in days, not monthsResults in days, not monthsStand on the southwest corner of Interstate 35 and Loop 1604 and the city's business life is laid out in front of you. Live Oak Town Center covers about 111 acres there, planned for more than 800,000 square feet of shopping, dining and entertainment, with IKEA, which opened on February 13, 2019 as the fifth store in Texas, and Floor and Decor as anchors. Across the loop sit the Alterman campus and the RBFCU headquarters buildings, and a hospital stands along the I-35 medical district. Only 15,726 people live within the city limits, so most of the faces in those parking lots belong to visitors.
That changes what a search plan has to do around Live Oak Town Center and Methodist Hospital Northeast. GetPhound builds pages, Google Maps listings and clear business facts for companies that need to be found by people who are driving in, not just by the neighbors next door. Reporting comes monthly, billing is month to month, and there is no setup fee.
Facts and figures
City Search Competition Index
55.2/ 100
Rank 89 of 203 in Texas
From the Census ACS 2018-2022, 2023 population estimates and County Business Patterns 2022. Each bar compares Live Oak with the other 202 Texas cities in this set, not with the country. How the score is built: methodology. Updated October 2026.
Who is buying
Retail trade is the largest employer of residents here by a wide margin, with 1,417 workers (17.8%), followed by health care and social assistance (1,108, 13.9%), education (743, 9.3%), construction (577, 7.2%), public administration (566, 7.1%) and administrative and support services (471, 5.9%). That mix is common in a shopping city: many residents work in stores and clinics, and many customers come from outside the city limits.
Methodist Hospital Northeast, part of the Methodist Healthcare System since 1995, is described as one of the city's largest employers. Alterman, one of the larger electrical contractors in Texas, moved its headquarters here in 2024, and the RBFCU headquarters buildings sit across the road. Floor and Decor is another named anchor. Judson ISD covers the larger part of the city. A business that sells to employees, patients and visiting shoppers can use the same landmarks in its pages.
The field is crowded and county-wide. Bexar County has 1,589 physicians' offices (1.89 times the typical county), 1,041 law offices (1.73 times), 828 dentists (1.43 times) and 803 real estate agents and brokers (1.55 times). A professional practice in Live Oak therefore competes with practices all over San Antonio for the same searches, which makes a distinct page for each service and a well-kept profile more valuable than a general home page.
Workforce profile
The work people do affects when they search and how much they can spend. Here are the six industries that employ the most Live Oak residents, based on the American Community Survey.
| Industry | Employed residents | Share of employed |
|---|---|---|
| Retail trade | 1,417 | 17.8% |
| Health care and social assistance | 1,108 | 13.9% |
| Education | 743 | 9.3% |
| Construction | 577 | 7.2% |
| Public administration | 566 | 7.1% |
| Administrative and support services | 471 | 5.9% |
From the Census ACS 5-year estimates (2018-2022), employed civilians 16 and older. A resident may work outside the city, so this is about people who live here.
The competing field
The Census reports business counts by county, never by city. Each row below describes Bexar County in full, with Live Oak inside it. A ratio over 1.0x means more of that business per resident than in the typical U.S. county.
| Business type | Count in Bexar County | Per 10,000 people | Compared with a typical U.S. county |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physicians offices | 1,589 | 7.6 | 1.89x |
| Law offices | 1,041 | 5 | 1.73x |
| Real estate agents and brokers | 803 | 3.8 | 1.55x |
| Dentists | 828 | 4 | 1.43x |
| Full-service restaurants | 1,478 | 7.1 | 1.05x |
Source: Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Only businesses with employees are counted, and the totals are for the whole county.
Who is searching
Residents here barely commute. Only 6.7% of workers travel 45 minutes or more, against 15.6% in the typical Texas city in our set, and 13.6% work from home against 9.5%. People who live in the city tend to be close to everything, so a business reached from the neighborhood competes on convenience and reviews. A business reached from outside the city competes on whether a stranger can find the entrance, the hours and the right exit.
The city sits where two highways meet, and a high share of daily traffic passes through without living here. For a retailer, that means a map listing that says which side of Loop 1604 the store is on, which cross street to use and what is next door. Pat Booker Road, State Highway 218, connects I-35 to Randolph Air Force Base, and Village Oaks Shopping Center on that road gives a second shopping cluster with its own set of directions.
The household profile is young and fairly typical for the metro. The median age is 33.7 against 35.2 for the typical city, median household income is $74,326 against $76,686, and 42.5% of households rent against 38%. Median rent is $1,362 and the median home value $212,800. Under-18s are 23.4% of residents, so family services, tutoring, dentistry and pediatrics all find a local audience.
Two details trip up local searches. Two school districts, Judson ISD and North East ISD, split the city, and two ZIP codes, 78148 and 78233, do the same, so neighbors may describe the same block in different ways. Spanish is spoken at home by 20.4% of residents against 17.9% typically, so a business that serves families should consider a Spanish version of its main service page.
What the plan covers
Exit, cross street, landmark
Each service page says which exit or road to use, names the closest landmark such as Live Oak Town Center or the loop, and shows parking and hours. A visitor from across San Antonio should be able to decide in one glance.
For businesses beside the retail
Restaurants, salons, repair counters and quick-service businesses near IKEA and Dick's House of Sport get listings and pages that describe themselves as a short stop on the same trip. Reviews that mention the visit type help show up when someone searches while shopping.
Near the hospital
Specialists, imaging, labs and therapy practices close to Methodist Hospital Northeast describe their services, accepted insurance and distance from the hospital in plain terms. Because Bexar County is crowded with physicians' offices, specific page titles beat a generic medical-practice page.
78148 and 78233
With two ZIP codes and Judson ISD splitting the city with another district, we build pages that name both and that match each business's real postal address. A family searching by ZIP code sees a page that speaks to it.
Along Loop 1604
Catering, printing, cleaning, security and IT businesses near the Alterman campus and the RBFCU buildings get pages aimed at office buyers, with weekday hours, delivery areas and lead times stated clearly.
Which store near IKEA
Many visitors ask an assistant for a pharmacy, a bakery or a plumber near IKEA. We organize hours, services and addresses so the same facts appear everywhere, which gives AI tools something accurate to quote. Nobody can promise a mention.
The ideas below follow from what the numbers and the local sources show: a crossroads at Loop 1604, a retail base of 1,417 workers and a hospital district, with few residents compared with the number of visits.
Where it happens
With 4.757 square miles to cover, most searches name a store or a road, such as Pat Booker Road. The places below are the landmarks that a page or listing can use to place a business for someone who has never been here.
| Part of town | Why it matters in search |
|---|---|
| Live Oak Town Center | A mixed-use center on about 111 acres at the southwest corner of I-35 and Loop 1604, so nearby restaurants and services can describe themselves as a short stop from the shops. |
| IKEA | A store that opened on February 13, 2019, and a landmark in directions, which makes it useful as a reference point for neighboring businesses (geography only, never an affiliation). |
| Dick's House of Sport | A 100,000-square-foot store reported as a Town Center anchor, with training space, climbing walls and batting cages that bring families and teams into the area. |
| Alterman campus | An electrical contractor's 190,000-square-foot headquarters at 7805 North Loop 1604 East, which puts hundreds of daytime workers near lunch, printing and office-service searches. |
| Methodist Hospital Northeast | The hospital in the I-35 medical district, a source of searches for specialists, labs, pharmacies and imaging, with a medical office building at Plaza II being added in 2025. |
| Pat Booker Road | State Highway 218, running from I-35 toward Randolph Air Force Base, where Village Oaks Shopping Center at 8344 Pat Booker Road gives a second cluster of businesses. |
| Gateway Plaza | A retail site at the northwest corner of Loop 1604 and I-35 that the city markets for retail, office, hotel and medical uses, so its listings and addresses may change as it fills. |
| Judson Road | A road where the city has offered development land near Retama Hollow, a reminder that new addresses are still arriving on the east side. |
Names come from public city, county and regional sources. Boundaries are informal, and searchers use whatever local name they know.
Texas cities that look alike
Peers are chosen on eight measures: population, income, age, renting, density, Spanish at home, seasonal housing and older residents. Click a name to read that city's page.
| City | Competition index | Population | Median income | Median age | Renter share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Oak, TX (this city) | 55.2 | 15,726 | $74,326 | 33.7 | 42.5% |
| Universal City, TX | 54.8 | 19,798 | $71,287 | 37.2 | 44.3% |
| Seabrook, TX | 64.3 | 13,558 | $96,223 | 34.8 | 40.9% |
| Stafford, TX | 44.3 | 17,240 | $87,245 | 32.6 | 54.2% |
| White Settlement, TX | 53.9 | 18,106 | $52,999 | 35.8 | 39.9% |
| Harker Heights, TX | 30.5 | 33,036 | $72,258 | 34.5 | 43.9% |
From Census ACS 2018-2022. All cities are compared on the same eight measures.
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FAQ
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A page and a profile that name Loop 1604 and a nearby landmark can start to show for narrow searches within weeks. Broader searches, such as a service across Bexar County, take months. Nobody can give a date, and monthly reports show impressions, calls and direction requests so the trend is easy to read.
Yes, because visitors who are shopping usually search by phone and tap the first pin that looks open. A correct category, real hours, photos of the entrance and recent reviews help a business appear for searches that include IKEA, the Town Center or Loop 1604.
We do. Companies on Pat Booker Road often draw customers from neighboring cities, and each place has its own page: Universal City, Selma and Converse. A separate page for each place reads as local to people and to search engines.
The listing must match your real postal address, so keep the ZIP code exactly as it is. On the page we add the city name and a sentence about the nearest road, such as Pat Booker Road or Gateway Plaza, which helps people who search for Live Oak rather than a ZIP code. Two ZIP codes serve the city, and the right one is the one your mail uses.
State your specialties, the insurance you accept, how far you are from the hospital and how to book, and avoid claims about outcomes. Patients compare several practices, and with 1,589 physicians' offices in Bexar County a clear page with specific services is easier to choose than a generic one.
As geography, yes: a sentence such as a short drive from Live Oak Town Center helps visitors find you. Never suggest a partnership or endorsement, and keep the wording factual. Search engines read those landmarks as location signals, and people use them in directions.
Often, yes. Construction employs 577 residents here, with an electrical contractor's headquarters in town, and homeowners search for repairs by city and by service. Pages for each service with photos of real jobs, a complete profile and reviews that name the work give a small contractor a way to appear next to the larger companies from across the county.
The same way, with one twist: ask visitors to say what they bought or what service they received and where they came from. Reviews that mention a visit from another part of Bexar County show search engines that the business serves the wider region, not only the 15,726 residents of the city.
The area around Live Oak
The nearest cities, by distance between city centers:
For the county as a whole, our Bexar County page is the better starting point.
Let us know
Describe what you sell and whether your doors face I-35, Loop 1604 or Pat Booker Road. We will send back a plain read on how both visitors and residents search for it. Call 610-825-4363 or email hello@getphound.com.