Little CypressTX
A town of 1,963.
Is Little Cypress a good place to live?
Little Cypress’ best subject grade is a B+ for cost of living; its weakest is a D for walkability. Only 59 of Texas’ 1,000 towns score lower on hazard risk. Only 12 of Texas’ 1,000 towns score lower on the outdoors. Little Cypress has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Little Cypress for work
Where Little Cypress’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Little Cypress grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Little Cypress is from typical.
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Moving to Little Cypress: who provides what
Little Cypress is unincorporated, so Orange 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 Little Cypress.
Little Cypress has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Little Cypress for work: only 1% work in town. At 29 minutes, Little Cypress’ average trip to work is above both the Texas town median (25 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). Jobs based in Little Cypress fell to 167 in 2023, 380 fewer than in 2013.
| Little Cypress | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.8% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $91,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 13% | 12% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Public schools in Little Cypress fall behind 55% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD. Its one school is below. The largest public high school is Lit Cypr-Mrceville H S, with 1,001 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lit Cypr-Mrceville H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,001 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Hurricanes leads a high hazard risk in Little Cypress
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 72% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Little Cypress has mild winters and hot summers
Little Cypress has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. At 92°F, Little Cypress’ July high is against 95°F in Texas’ towns and 85°F across U.S. towns.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Little Cypress is less healthy than 56% of U.S. towns
Little Cypress beats the Texas average on 9 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 39% of adults have high blood pressure in Little Cypress.
| Little Cypress | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 35% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 39% | 36% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 22% | 23% |
| What stands out | Little Cypress | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 10.8% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 11.9% | 16.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Little Cypress sell for about $200K
88% of Little Cypress households own their home.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Spindletop and 11 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Little Cypress. Close and well known come first.
22 mi LandmarkSpindletop
17 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year22 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum6 mi MuseumStark Museum of Art
21 mi MuseumEdison Museum
22 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast TexasPhoto 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 · Edison Museum: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Art Museum of Southeast Texas: R. Rothenberger, CC BY 3.0
Everything we know about Little Cypress
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Little Cypress
About 1 of every 100 Little Cypress residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Little Cypress
Unincorporated community in Texas, US
Little Cypress is a large unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in the northern area of Orange in Orange County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Little Cypress had a population of 1,968. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The settlement was probably named for nearby Little Cypress Bayou and began sometime after the Civil War, when the first school was built.
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- Area
- 3.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 20 ft
Little Cypress’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Little Cypress.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Cypress | — | — | B+ | — | B− | C+ |
| Orange | #610 | D− | C+ | C | C− | D |
Little Cypress has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Little Cypress reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Little Cypress with a neighbor →
Questions about Little Cypress
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Little Cypress, TX expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $184,000, 38% 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 B+.