FannettTX
A town of 1,654, settled in 1903.
Is Fannett a good place to live?
Fannett’s best subject grade is a B for incomes; its weakest is a D for hazard risk. On hazard risk, just 18 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 70 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Fannett has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
98% of working residents leave Fannett for work
Where Fannett’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Fannett grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Fannett is from typical.
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Spindletop and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fannett. Close and well known come first.
12 mi LandmarkSpindletop
16 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year12 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
14 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast Texas
14 mi MuseumEdison Museum
14 mi MuseumBabe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor CenterPhoto credits
Spindletop: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Big Thicket National Preserve: NPS, Public domain · Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Art Museum of Southeast Texas: R. Rothenberger, CC BY 3.0 · Edison Museum: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
Moving to Fannett: who provides what
Fannett is unincorporated, so Jefferson 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 Fannett.
The FEMA risk score in Fannett is higher than in most of Texas or the rest of the country
Fannett’s FEMA risk score is 86 of 100, above both the Texas town median (47 of 100) and the median of U.S. towns (44 of 100).
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On state tests, Fannett’s schools beat 57% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Hamshire-Fannett ISD. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamshire-Fannett ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–3 | Grades PK–3 | 628 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Most of Fannett’s workers commute out: the town has 0.7 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Fannett for work: only 2% work in town. Since 2013, Fannett has lost 353 jobs, to 742 in 2023. The top destinations are Beaumont (27%), Port Arthur (9%) and Houston (7%).
| Fannett | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 1.6% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 9.7% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Fannett, expect mild winters and hot summers
Fannett has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. Fannett’s July high is 92°F, where Texas’ towns sit at 95°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Fannett trails 57% of U.S. towns
Fannett beats the Texas average on 8 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 12% of Fannett adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Fannett | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 74% | 79% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 39% | 36% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 35% | 35% |
| What stands out | Fannett | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 12.3% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 12.3% | 16.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.4% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Fannett sells for about $634K
89% of households own their home in Fannett.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Fannett
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Fannett
About 5 of every 100 Fannett residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Fannett
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Fannett is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,363 at the 2020 census. It is about 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Beaumont and is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area.
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Questions about Fannett
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fannett, TX expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $231,000, 22% 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 C−.