DeerwoodTX
A town of 2,366.
Is Deerwood a good place to live?
Deerwood’s best subject grade is an A+ for cost of living; its weakest is a C− for walkability. Deerwood’s average trip to work is 43 minutes, where Texas’ towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. No town in Texas scores higher than Deerwood on cost of living. Deerwood's schools rank ahead of 76% of Texas towns. On the outdoors, just 31 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Deerwood has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
100% of working residents leave Deerwood for work
Where Deerwood’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Deerwood grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Deerwood is from typical.
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Moving to Deerwood: who provides what
Deerwood is unincorporated, so Montgomery County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Deerwood.
With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Deerwood’s workers commute out
8.7% of residents live below the poverty line in Deerwood, against 12% in Texas’ towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. The top destinations are Houston (24%), Conroe (20%) and The Woodlands (5%). Half commute less than 31 miles.
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, fewer of Deerwood’s adults had a checkup this year
68% of Deerwood adults had a checkup this year. Deerwood beats the Texas average on 6 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 12. 35% of Deerwood adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Deerwood | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 74% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 18% | 8.1% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 35% | 35% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 30% | 25% |
| What stands out | Deerwood | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 3.2% | 6.1% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4% | 5.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 34.9% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
In Deerwood, expect mild winters and hot summers
Deerwood has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Deerwood is 94°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Deerwood, with tornadoes at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 61% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Daikin Park and 19 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Deerwood. Close and well known come first.
Big draw39 mi Stadium & arenaDaikin Park
39 mi Stadium & arenaToyota Center
39 mi Stadium & arenaShell Energy Stadium
30 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year
14 mi TheatreCynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
16 mi National forestSam Houston National ForestPhoto credits
Daikin Park: Delaywaves, CC BY 3.0 · Toyota Center: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Shell Energy Stadium: HDFC PR, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Big Thicket National Preserve: NPS, Public domain · Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion: WhisperToMe, CC0 · Sam Houston National Forest: U.S. Forest Service, Public domain
Everything we know about Deerwood
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Deerwood
About 3 of every 100 Deerwood residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Questions about Deerwood
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Deerwood, TX expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.