Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 18,108, settled in 1897. 51% more nonprofits per person than the typical Texas town.
Trash & recyclingNederland grades C+ overall, 234th among Texas's 640 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. Its schools rank ahead of 75% of Texas towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 77% of U.S. communities, with hurricanes at the top. Nederland’s January low is 43°F, above both Texas’ towns (37°F) and U.S. towns (22°F). The biggest park or preserve is C Doornbos Park, at 21 acres. Nederland is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 73% of U.S. towns.
Where Nederland beats most towns.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Helena Park El | PK–5 | 760 |
| Hillcrest El | PK–5 | 717 |
| Langham El | PK–5 | 553 |
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Nederland is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 3,805 in 1950, 18,856 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2008 and 4 maps from 1943 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Nederland. Close and well known come first.
6 mi LandmarkSpindletop
10 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year6 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
10 mi MuseumEdison Museum
10 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast Texas
11 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
Who provides power, water and the rest in Nederland, and how to reach them.
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 Nederland.
Nederland 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).
Below: Three of its 9 schools, each with why it was picked. Nederland ISD runs its public schools. Public school enrollment locally: 3,255 students across 5 schools.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helena Park ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 760 | A |
| Nederland H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,500 | A− |
| Wilson MiddleTop results in townGrades 6–8 | Grades 6–8 | 678 | A |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 91% of Texas towns, with expected losses of about $595 per resident a year; that rating is what its C− for hazard risk is built on. 979 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 117 properties have flooded more than once.
Nederland has had 979 paid flood insurance claims since 1979. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 45% come from hurricanes and 19% from inland flooding. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Nederland after 11 declared disasters, most recently in 2024.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Values rose 2.6% in the past year while the Texas typical home fell 1.5%.
Home values are up 2.6% over the year to September 2026. For Nederland, the median rent is $1,400 a month. A home in Nederland typically sold within 15 days of listing.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
January nights average 42.9°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.8°.
For Nederland, the midsummer high is 92°F. Snowfall is close to zero.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
The average commute for its 7,752 working residents takes 18.9 minutes, against 26.7 across Texas.
Employers in Nederland added 824 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 6,401. Commuting out is the norm locally: 15% of working residents work locally. Also worth knowing: the typical journey to work locally is 19 minutes. For half of commuters, work is under 10 miles away.
| Nederland | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 19 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 15% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 8.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Here, 24% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree, against 34% in Texas as a whole. No age group stands out against Texas: all are within 4 points. 18,108 people lived in Nederland by the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate, 3.9% fewer than in 2020.
| Nederland | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 25% | 26% | 22% |
| Median age | 36.2 years | 35.8 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 16% | 14% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 24% | 23% | 29% |
51% women, 49% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±2.2 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women. Median age: women 38.0, men 34.7.
| Nederland | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 15.4% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.9% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.2% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.4% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.7% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 11% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 11% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 9% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7.4% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 6.9% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 31% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 22.5% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 15.5% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 17.1% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 7.2% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
Census population estimates, 2025 · U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
The rate of reported violence for Nederland comes to 2.4 per 1,000 residents. The property crime rate for Nederland comes to 10.7 per 1,000 residents.
| Nederland | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 2.4 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 10.7 per 1,000 residents | 10.7 | 9.9 |
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
In Nederland, 14% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance. This Texas town does better than the Texas average on 7 of 31 CDC measures and worse on 3. Nearly three quarters of adults locally had a checkup this year; 35% sleep under 7 hours.
| Nederland | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 74% | 74% | 79% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 39% | 36% |
| What stands out | Nederland | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 13.6% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 14.7% | 19.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 7.9% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Count the trails in 2 parks and preserves and they come to 0.9 miles. Nederland’s density of trails is 0.2 miles per square mile.
| Nederland | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.9% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. C Doornbos Park | 0.8 mi | 21 |
| 2. Tex Ritter Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
3 within 15 miles of the center of Nederland
About 4 of every 100 Nederland residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
9 notable people were born in Nederland.
City in Texas, United States
Nederland ( NEE-dər-lənd) is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,856 at the 2020 census. The city was settled in 1897 along what became Boston Avenue and was incorporated in 1940. It was settled by Dutch immigrants on land sold by the Kansas City Southern Railway. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area. Nederland is also a part of an area known as "the Golden Triangle", which comprises Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange. The city is adjacent to the Jack Brooks Regional Airport.
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4 towns share a border with Nederland.
Port Arthur next door grades lower for schools (D to Nederland’s A−) and higher for cost of living (B to C−).
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nederland | #234 | C+ | C− | C+ | A− | B− |
| Central Gardens | #193 | B− | B− | — | A− | B− |
| Beauxart Gardens | — | — | A− | — | A− | A− |
| Port Arthur | #632 | D− | B | D | D | D− |
| Port Neches | #216 | C+ | C | B− | B | B+ |
Beauxart Gardens has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Central Gardens and Beauxart Gardens report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Nederland with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Nederland grades C+ overall, better than 42% of U.S. towns and #234 of 640 in Texas. It grades B− for health, C+ for safety and A− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a C−.
Yes. That is 3.5 years of the area's median household income ($64,659 across the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.
9 notable people were born here, including Kendrick Perkins and Davy Arnaud.
