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A town of 2,945, settled in 1906.
Mauriceville grades low on several counts. A typical home there costs about $224K, 3.5 years of the Beaumont metro’s $65K median household income. Overall, Mauriceville earns a D: better than nearly a tenth of U.S. towns, and 504th of 640 in Texas. Its weakest is walkability. 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. On the outdoors, just 3 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · USGS PAD-US.
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 MuseumBabe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center13 mi MuseumStark Museum of ArtSpindletop: 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 · 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.
Households in Mauriceville have drawn federal disaster aid in 8 declared disasters, most recently in 2024. In Mauriceville, the FEMA hazard score is 80 of 100, where Texas’ towns sit at 47 of 100 and U.S. towns at 44 of 100. Of the losses FEMA expects in the town, 36% come from hurricanes and 33% from inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Public schools: Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD.
| 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.
Mauriceville had 285 jobs in 2023, up 25 from 2013. In Mauriceville, the typical journey to work is 32 minutes. For half of commuters, work is under 19 miles away. Among working residents in the town, 2% work locally.
| 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% |
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 12% | 9.6% |
| 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%.
Homes in Mauriceville are typically worth about $224,000, 24% below the Texas typical home. In Mauriceville, the going rate for rent is $1,031 a month, against $1,208 a month in Texas’ towns and $1,185 a month across U.S. towns.
| 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
For adults in Mauriceville, the share who have obesity is 38%. Against the Texas average, Mauriceville comes out ahead on 5 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 6. In Mauriceville, 18% of adults binge drink, and 26% have been diagnosed with depression.
| 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.
The January low in Mauriceville is 41°F. Snow almost never falls.
| 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−.
