Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Ennis is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C overall, ranked 320th of 640 in Texas, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is incomes: the median household earns $75K. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 79% of the country. A typical home there costs about $261K, 2.9 years of the Dallas metro’s $90K median household income. Its National Register listings include Ennis High School and G. G. Dunkerly House. Only 61 of Texas’ 1,000 towns score higher on hazard risk. The biggest park or preserve is Bluebonnet Park, at 46 acres.
Where Ennis beats most towns.
Barrington House
Census counts: 1,351 in 1880, 20,159 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 1937 and 2 maps from 1956 on.
40 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Ennis is from typical.
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Who provides power, water and the rest in Ennis, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in Ennis.
Ennis carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of Texas (mostly inland flooding), has more 90° days than nearly all U.S. towns and trades workers with Dallas and other neighbors.
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 93% of Texas towns, with expected losses of about $164 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Ennis’ FEMA risk score is 12 of 100, below both the Texas town median (47 of 100) and the median of U.S. towns (44 of 100). Since 1989, 9 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Ennis.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by Ennis ISD. Two of its 11 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ennis J HLargest public middle schoolGrades 7–8 | Grades 7–8 | 908 | B+ |
| Ennis H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,887 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
23% of Ennis adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance, where Texas’ towns sit at 18% and U.S. towns at 8.1%. 42% of Ennis adults sleep under 7 hours. Ennis beats the Texas average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 10.
| Ennis | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 23% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 74% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 24% | 19% |
| What stands out | Ennis | TX |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.5% | 12.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 7% | 5.7% |
| More uninsured adults | 23.3% | 19.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The Bardwell Dam weather station records that about 103 days a year reach 90°, more than in 95% of U.S. towns. July afternoons average 95.1°, hotter than in 96% of U.S. towns; January nights average 36.5°.
Ennis has mild winters and hot summers. Ennis’ July high is 95°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Ennis | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 95°F | 95°F | 85°F |
| January low | 37°F | 37°F | 22°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Ennis has about as many jobs (10,346) as working residents, but only 2,433 people both live and work here. Jobs based here grew from 7,826 in 2013 to 10,346.
About one in 4 of Ennis’s working residents works in town. Jobs based in Ennis grew to 10,346 in 2023, 2,520 more than in 2013. The average trip to work in Ennis is 28 minutes.
| Ennis | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 24% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 8.6% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 12% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The typical Ennis home is worth about $261,000, down 1.7% in a year, 12% below the Texas typical home. 63% of households own their home in Ennis.
| Ennis | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 63% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,362 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
| Ennis | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.7% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Kachina Prairie Park | 0.7 mi | 32 |
| 2. Veterans Park | 0.7 mi | 19 |
| 3. Lions Park | 0.6 mi | 13 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
1 within 15 miles of the center of Ennis
About 4 of every 100 Ennis residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
40 places in Ennis on the National Register of Historic Places.
17 notable people were born in Ennis.
City in Texas, United States
Ennis () is a city in eastern Ellis County, Texas, United States. Its population was 20,159 according to the 2020 census, with an estimated population of 23,686 in 2023. Ennis is home to the annual National Polka Festival. It is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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3 towns share a border with Ennis.
Garrett and Alma aren’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Ennis with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Ennis grades C overall, better than 28% of U.S. towns and #320 of 640 in Texas. It grades C− for health, B− for safety and B− for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a C−.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C+.
17 notable people were born here, including Chase Craig and Alfred H. Bennett.
