InezTX
A town of 2,031, settled in 1884.
Is Inez a good place to live?
The best of Inez’s subject grades are a B+ for cost of living and health; the weakest is a D− for walkability. On walkability, just 30 of Texas’ 999 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 85% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Inez has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Inez stand out
Where Inez beats most towns.
Inez has grown 26% from 2010 to 2020
2,098 counted in 2010 and 2,641 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Inez grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Inez is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Inez: who provides what
Inez is unincorporated, so Victoria 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 Inez.
Inez stands out in Texas and nationally, with the FEMA risk score higher than most
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Inez’s schools rank behind 62% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Industrial ISD. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial El WestLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 290 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Most of Inez’s workers commute out: the town has 0.1 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Inez for work: only 1% work in town. 5.7% of residents live below the poverty line in Inez, where Texas’ towns sit at 12% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Jobs based in Inez grew to 138 in 2023, 26 more than in 2013.
| Inez | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 5.7% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $83,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Inez is healthier than 66% of U.S. towns
Inez beats the Texas average on 11 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 19% of adults binge drink in Inez, above both Texas’ towns (17%) and U.S. towns (16%). 12% of Inez adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Inez | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 16% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 20% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 24% | 19% |
| What stands out | Inez | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 10.9% | 19.3% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.3% | 16.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 8.3% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Fewer young adults than Texas overall
Adults 18 to 34 are 16% of residents (24% statewide); people 65 and older are 22% of residents (13% statewide). Inez’s median age is 46.5 years. 34% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 34% across Texas.
| Inez | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 46.5 years | 35.9 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 22% | 14% | 18% |
| Under 18 | 20% | 26% | 22% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 34% | 23% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
Somewhere between 34% and 59% women
The Census survey reached too few of Inez’s residents to say more: its margin here is ±12.6 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Inez | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 9.8% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.6% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.7% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.2% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 18.8% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.1% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9.4% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 12.4% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 3.7% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 33.3% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 25.4% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 3.5% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 25.7% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 8.5% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,000, single groups can be off by several points
Inez has mild winters and hot summers
Inez has warm winters and hot summers. The July high in Inez is 94°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Inez are worth about $348K, by Zillow’s estimate
The typical Inez home is worth about $348,000, down 0.6% in a year, 17% above the Texas typical home. 81% of households own their home in Inez.
| Inez | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 81% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $847 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Inez
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Inez
About 1 of every 100 Inez residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
99% of working residents leave Inez for work
Where Inez’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Inez
CDP in Texas, United States
Inez ( EYE-nez) is a census-designated place (CDP), on Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59, fifteen miles northeast of Victoria, near the Jackson County, Texas line in Victoria County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Inez had a population of 2,641. It is included in the Victoria, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The name is that of a daughter of a railroad developer.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 60 sq mi
- Elevation
- 66 ft
- ZIP code
- 77968
- Area code
- 361
Questions about Inez
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Inez, TX expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.