Four CornersTX
The town has 11,692 residents and lies in Texas.
Is Four Corners a good place to live?
Cost of living is its weak spot — the typical home is worth about $277K, 3.4 years of the Houston metro’s $82K median household income. Overall, Four Corners earns a C−: better than 24% of U.S. towns, and 349th of 640 in Texas. Its strongest is schools: its schools rank ahead of 67% of Texas towns. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for health and B for incomes. It also trails on hazard risk: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 84% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Four Corners’ average commute is 39 minutes, where Texas’ towns sit at 25 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes.
Figures: schools, state test and graduation results · home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · FEMA National Risk Index.
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.
Expected losses in Four Corners break down as 60% from inland flooding and 15% from tornadoes. The national flood insurance program has paid 35 claims in the town since 1981. Also worth knowing: households in the town have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2017.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Four Corners earns a B+ for schools
Public schools: Fort Bend ISD. Two of the 4 schools are below, and why each made the list. 3 public schools serve Four Corners, with 1,875 students in all.
| 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.
Only 1% of working residents stay in Four Corners for work; the rest commute out. This Texas town had 823 jobs in 2023, up 317 from 2013. Half the trips to work are shorter than 14 miles. The top destinations are Houston (55%), Sugar Land (9%) and Austin (2%).
| Four Corners | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 39 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| 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
Four Corners: mild winters and hot summers
January nights average 43.7°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 93.8°.
Four Corners’ typical July afternoon high is 94°F. Snow almost never falls.
| 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
Ages in Four Corners track Texas closely
By age, Four Corners looks like Texas: each broad group is within 4 points. In Four Corners, 36% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Four Corners’ midpoint age stands at 35.5 years.
| 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
For adults in Four Corners, the share who worry about having enough food is 24%. Of 31 CDC measures, Four Corners beats the Texas average on 5 and trails it on 6. Two figures for adults in the town: 13% binge drink, 42% sleep under 7 hours.
| 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 $291K
96.4% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 51.7% across Texas.
Among households in the town, 74% are owner-occupiers. Four Corners’ typical rent comes in at $1,519 a month.
| Four Corners | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,519 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 74% | 69% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · 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.