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A town of 2,945, settled in 1906.
Mauriceville earns a D, 504th among Texas's 640 graded towns, mostly because of incomes. The median household income is $64K, and 14% of residents live below the poverty line. One bright spot: homes are within reach, about $224K for a typical one, or 3.5 years of the Beaumont metro’s $65K median household income. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 98% of U.S. towns. On hazard risk, just 43 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse.
Where Mauriceville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Mauriceville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,046 in 1990, 2,983 in 2020. The archive holds 1 old photo or paper going back to 2021 and 4 maps from 1926 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Mauriceville. Close and well known come first.
19 mi LandmarkSpindletop
11 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year19 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
17 mi MuseumEdison Museum
17 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast Texas
17 mi MuseumBabe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor CenterSpindletop: 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 · Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
Mauriceville 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Mauriceville.
Mauriceville has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and has home values rising while Texas’s fall, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly hurricanes).
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 95% of Texas towns; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on.
At 80 of 100, Mauriceville’s FEMA risk score is where Texas’ towns sit at 47 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mauriceville ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 507 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Mauriceville has 285 jobs for its 1,315 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Mauriceville for work: only 2% work in town. At 32 minutes, Mauriceville’s 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 Mauriceville grew to 285 in 2023, 25 more than in 2013.
| Mauriceville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 2% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $64,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Values rose 4.2% in the past year while the Texas typical home fell 1.5%.
The typical Mauriceville home is worth about $224,000, 24% below the Texas typical home. The median rent in Mauriceville is $1,031 a month.
| Mauriceville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,031 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 70% | 69% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Mauriceville beats the Texas average on 5 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 6. 42% of Mauriceville adults sleep under 7 hours.
| Mauriceville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 36% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 22% | 23% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 18% | 8.1% |
| What stands out | Mauriceville | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 12.7% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13.2% | 19.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 7.9% | 5.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
January nights average 41.3°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.8°. The Orange 9 N weather station, 8 miles away, records that about 74 days a year reach 90°: more than most of the country, but fewer than 95% of Texas places with climate records.
Mauriceville has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. Mauriceville’s January low is 41°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Mauriceville | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 41°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 92°F | 95°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1 within 15 miles of the center of Mauriceville
About 3 of every 100 Mauriceville residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
CDP in Texas, United States
Mauriceville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Orange County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,983 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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One town shares a border with Mauriceville.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauriceville | #504 | D | B− | — | B− | C |
| Vidor | #380 | C− | B+ | C+ | C+ | C− |
Mauriceville reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Mauriceville with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Mauriceville grades D overall, better than 9% of U.S. towns and #504 of 640 in Texas. It grades C for health and B− for schools. Walkability is its weak spot, with a D−.
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.
