1. Define the Alpine geography before reading a number
A dashboard can only answer a local question if the question has a defined boundary. Alpine city and Brewster County are not interchangeable, and neither is automatically the same as the service area your firm chooses to market. The Census records Alpine as a municipality in Brewster County and gives the city a 2020–2024 ACS 5-year population estimate of 6,014, with a margin of error of 20. That is useful context for naming the reporting area; it does not establish legal demand or predict calls, cases or revenue. Ask to see how a city target, county target and any wider Texas target would appear separately. Do not let a single combined total hide which geography produced a call or lead.
Recommended approach
Write the geographic definitions into the dashboard review: Alpine city, Brewster County, and any additional areas your firm intentionally serves. Require each ranking, lead and matter view to identify its applicable geography where that information is available.
