Four CornersTX
A town of 11,692.
Is Four Corners a good place to live?
Four Corners grades C− overall, 349th of 640 graded towns in Texas, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. On the other side, homes are expensive, about $277K for a typical one and 3.4 times the Houston metro’s $82K median household income. It also does better than most on schools: its schools outperform 67% of the state's. Four Corners’ average trip to work is 39 minutes, where Texas’ towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Only 54 of Texas’ 1,000 towns score lower on hazard risk.
99% of working residents leave Four Corners for work
Where Four Corners’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Four Corners grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Four Corners is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Reliant Stadium and 47 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Four Corners. Close and well known come first.
Big draw15 mi Stadium & arenaReliant Stadium
Big draw19 mi Stadium & arenaDaikin Park
17 mi MuseumRothko Chapel
19 mi Stadium & arenaToyota Center
19 mi Stadium & arenaShell Energy Stadium
19 mi Stadium & arenaTDECU StadiumPhoto credits
Reliant Stadium: User eschipul on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Daikin Park: Delaywaves, CC BY 3.0 · Rothko Chapel: Unknown, Public domain · Toyota Center: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Shell Energy Stadium: HDFC PR, CC BY-SA 4.0 · TDECU Stadium: Brian Reading, CC BY-SA 4.0
Moving to Four Corners: who provides what
Four Corners is unincorporated, so Fort Bend 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 Four Corners.
Four Corners has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly inland flooding) and has little public open land.
Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, the FEMA risk score in Four Corners is higher
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 98% of Texas towns, with expected losses of about $218 per resident a year; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Four Corners is 84 of 100. Since 1981, 35 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Four Corners.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four Corners earns a B+ for schools
Its public schools are run by Fort Bend ISD. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hodges Bend MiddleLargest public middle schoolGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 765 | C− |
| Fellowship Christian Academy PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 141 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
More than half of Four Corners’ working residents commute to Houston
Four Corners has 823 jobs for its 5,218 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 38.6 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
Most working residents leave Four Corners for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs based in Four Corners grew to 823 in 2023, 317 more than in 2013. 8.3% of residents live below the poverty line in Four Corners.
| Four Corners | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Work from home | 14% | 9.6% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 8.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Four Corners
January nights average 43.7°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 93.8°.
Four Corners has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. Four Corners’ January low is 44°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Four Corners | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 44°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 94°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
An age mix much like Texas’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the Texas average. 36% of Four Corners adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more.
| Four Corners | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 36% | 23% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 12% | 14% | 18% |
| Median age | 35.5 years | 35.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Under 18 | 25% | 26% | 22% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
57% women, 43% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±7.8 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women. Among residents 35 to 44, 66% are men (TX 51%).
| Four Corners | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.2% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 13.4% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 12.1% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 12.3% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 12.9% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.7% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 8.6% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 3.8% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 20% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.8% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 17.3% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 4% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.3% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 12.6% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
Four Corners stands out in Texas and nationally: a smaller share of its adults have been diagnosed with depression
Among 641 Texas towns, just 1 have a lower share of adults who have been diagnosed with depression than Four Corners. Four Corners beats the Texas average on 5 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 6.
| Four Corners | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 22% | 23% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 17% | 16% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 36% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 20% | 14% |
| What stands out | Four Corners | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4% | 6.1% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 12.8% | 17% |
| More adults facing food insecurity | 23.9% | 19.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Four Corners sell for about $315K
96.4% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 51.7% across Texas.
The median sale price was $315,000 in May 2026.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
0% of Four Corners is conserved land
Just 0 of its 1,540 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Four Corners itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
0.1 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sugar Grove Community Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Four Corners
Colleges nearby
7 within 15 miles of the center of Four Corners
About 10 of every 100 Four Corners residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
Four Corners’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Four Corners.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four Corners | #349 | C− | D | — | B+ | B− |
| Houston | #606 | D− | C− | D− | C− | C+ |
| Mission Bend | #419 | C− | C− | — | B− | C+ |
Four Corners and Mission Bend report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Four Corners with a neighbor →
Questions about Four Corners
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Four Corners, TX a good place to live?
Four Corners grades C− overall, better than 24% of U.S. towns and #349 of 640 in Texas. It grades B− for health and B+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Four Corners, TX expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $277,000, 7% 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 D.