Little CypressTX
In Texas, this town has 1,963 residents.
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.
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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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
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Little Cypress.
Little Cypress has 0.2 jobs per working resident, so most workers leave town for work
13% of residents live below the poverty line in Little Cypress, above both Texas’ towns (12%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). Jobs based in the town fell to 167 in 2023, 380 fewer than in 2013. In Little Cypress, the average trip to work is 29 minutes. The median commute is under 22 miles.
| 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
The largest public high school is Lit Cypr-Mrceville H S, with 1,001 students. Public schools: Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD. Its one school is below.
| 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
Top of a high hazard risk in Little Cypress: hurricanes
In Little Cypress, the risk rating from FEMA is 72 of 100, above both the Texas town median (47 of 100) and the median of U.S. towns (44 of 100). 48% of the town’s expected losses from natural hazards come from hurricanes, followed by inland flooding at 23%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Little Cypress’ year
Little Cypress’ peak summer temperature comes in at 92°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Little Cypress is less healthy than 56% of U.S. towns
Two in five adults sleep under 7 hours in Little Cypress. Against the Texas average, Little Cypress comes out ahead on 9 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 6.
| 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 $318K
The share of households in Little Cypress who live in a home they own: 88%.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Little Cypress
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
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.
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+.
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