DeerwoodTX
The town has 2,366 residents and lies in Texas.
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 mean commuting time 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
The top destinations are Houston (24%), Conroe (20%) and The Woodlands (5%). 8.7% of residents live below the poverty line in Deerwood. Half the trips to work are shorter 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
The share of adults in Deerwood who have been diagnosed with depression: 19%. On the CDC’s 31 measures, Deerwood is ahead of Texas on 6 and behind on 12. Among adults here, 28% have high blood pressure and 35% get no exercise outside work.
| 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
Deerwood has mild winters and hot summers
The typical July afternoon high for Deerwood comes to 94°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
High risk in Deerwood, with tornadoes at the top
Deerwood’s risk rating from FEMA comes in at 61 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects here, 36% come from tornadoes and 31% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Homes in Deerwood sell for about $310K
Deerwood: 80% of households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
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. The typical home is worth about $69,000, 77% below the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A+.