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Texas›Hardin County

Pinewood EstatesTX

A town of 1,516.

Is Pinewood Estates a good place to live?

Pinewood Estates’ best subject grade is an A for incomes; its weakest is a D− for walkability. Pinewood Estates’ median household income is $158,000, above both the Texas town median ($69,000) and the median of U.S. towns ($80,000). On walkability, just 47 of Texas’ 999 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 78% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. The biggest park or preserve is Big Thicket National Preserve, at 406 acres. Pinewood Estates has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.

A commuter town

99% of working residents leave Pinewood Estates for work

Where Pinewood Estates’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.

31% → Beaumont Beaumont 31% 12% → Sour Lake Sour Lake 12% 7% → Houston Houston 7% 4% → Port Arthur Port Arthur 4% 3% → Lumberton Lumberton 3% 1% → Baytown Baytown 1% Pinewood Estates · 1% stay
55jobs based in Pinewood Estates
1%of working residents work in town
15 mimedian commute distance

Census LEHD 2023

How Pinewood Estates grades

Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Pinewood Estates is from typical.

How grading works

Character Graded, but not part of the overall grade.
Described, not graded Taste, not quality: snow or an older crowd is neither good nor bad.

How TownRatings grades towns →

Nearby attractions

Big Thicket National Preserve and 11 more within 40 miles

Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Pinewood Estates. Close and well known come first.

All 15 attractions →
Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Big Thicket National Preserve: NPS, Public domain · Spindletop: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum: i_am_jim, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Edison Museum: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Art Museum of Southeast Texas: R. Rothenberger, CC BY 3.0

Getting set up

Moving to Pinewood Estates: who provides what

Pinewood Estates is unincorporated, so Hardin County and regional agencies provide most services.

PowerEntergy Texas13.9¢/kWh · EIA 2025HIFLD · EIA
WaterHardin County Wcid 1 water system1 health-based violation in 5 years · EPAEPA
Internet2 providers99% of addresses get 100/20 MbpsFCC
Trash & county servicesHardin CountyHardin County provides services here
SchoolsHardin-Jefferson Independent School DistrictWhich school depends on your addressNCES
Register to voteIn personTexas has no online registration; you can register in person until 30 days before Election Day or by mail (postmarked 30 days before).vote.gov
Who runs elections hereHardin County Early Voting ClerkHardin County; contacts on the Handbook page.FVAP, Jan 2024
ZIP code7765977659 100%Census 2020

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 Pinewood Estates.

Who lives here

Fewer young adults than Texas overall

Adults 18 to 34 are 3% of residents (24% statewide); children under 18 are 39% of residents (25% statewide). 43% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Pinewood Estates, against 23% in Texas’ towns and 29% across U.S. towns. 14% of Pinewood Estates residents are 65 or older.

37.9median age · TX 35.6
Pinewood EstatesTexas townsU.S. towns
Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+43%23%29%
Aged 65 or older14%14%18%
Median age37.9 years35.9 years40.5 years
Pinewood EstatesTexasUnited States

Ages · share of residents

Education · adults 25 and older

No diploma0%
High school23%
Some college19%
Associate’s16%
Bachelor’s19%
Graduate24%

Women and men · all residents

Somewhere between 25% and 66% women

The Census survey reached too few of Pinewood Estates’ residents to say more: its margin here is ±20.4 points. Across Texas, 50.1% of residents are women.

Ages and education in Pinewood Estates
Pinewood EstatesTXU.S.
Under 1015.2%13.3%11.6%
10 to 1723.5%11.7%10.3%
18 to 243%9.7%9.1%
25 to 340%14.5%13.7%
35 to 4422.3%14.1%13.2%
45 to 549.2%12.3%12.2%
55 to 6412.7%11.1%12.7%
65 to 745.7%8.2%10.2%
75 and older8.4%5.2%7%
No diploma0%14%10.4%
High school22.9%24.3%26%
Some college18.7%20.1%19.1%
Associate’s15.6%7.7%8.8%
Bachelor’s18.8%21.5%21.6%
Graduate24.1%12.3%14.1%

U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 1,500, single groups can be off by several points

Work & commuteJobs & income grade A

Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, fewer of Pinewood Estates’ residents live below the poverty line

1.1% of residents live below the poverty line in Pinewood Estates. Most working residents leave Pinewood Estates for work: only 1% work in town. Pinewood Estates’ average trip to work is 33 minutes.

1%work in town
Pinewood EstatesTexas townsU.S. towns
Below the poverty line1.1%12%9.6%
Average trip to work33 minutes25 minutes25 minutes
Working residents who work in town0.7%8.3%8%

Where working residents work

In Pinewood Estates1%
Beaumont31%
Sour Lake12%
Houston7%
Port Arthur4%
15 mi
median commute distance
55
jobs based in Pinewood Estates
A commuter town
jobs vs. working residents
D−
Walkability grade: more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns

Census LEHD 2023 · ACS

78risk score of 100
FEMA risk score
78High riskLowerHigher
Inland floodingHurricanesTornadoes
1
federal disasters paid out here

FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA

Climate

Mild winters and hot summers in Pinewood Estates

Pinewood Estates has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Pinewood Estates is 93°F.

93°summer high

Typical low → high °F

Winter43–64°
Spring58–79°
Summer72–92°
Fall59–80°
Dec 2
typical first frost
Feb 18
typical last frost
+1.1°
vs. the 20th-century average
93°
typical summer high

NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020

HealthB

Pinewood Estates is healthier than 57% of U.S. towns

Pinewood Estates beats the Texas average on 8 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 5.

57%healthier than U.S. townsBHealth Grade
Pinewood EstatesTexas townsU.S. towns
No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES)11%18%8.1%
Food insecurity (CDC PLACES)12%20%14%
Obesity (CDC PLACES)32%37%35%
Binge drink (CDC PLACES)18%17%16%
31 measures vs. Texas
8 better18 too close to call5 worse
What stands outPinewood EstatesTX
Fewer uninsured adults11.2%19.1%
Fewer adults facing food insecurity12.1%19.3%
More adults who have had cancer9%6.1%
Altus Lumberton Hospital
8.6 mi away · emergency room
3 of 3
care shortages: primary care, dental, mental health

CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA

OutdoorsD

Pinewood Estates has set aside 3.5% of its land for conservation

0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.

3.5%conserved
3.5%
conserved · 294 of 8,454 acres
0.0 mi
of trails · 0 per sq mi
Biggest places to walkTrailsAcres
1. Big Thicket National Preserve—406

Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US

HousingCost of living grade C−

More of Pinewood Estates’ households own their home than in the typical Texas or U.S. town

Only 5 of the 643 Texas towns we compare have a higher share of households owning their home than Pinewood Estates.

$285Kmedian sale price
1
homes sold in May

Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center

Keep exploring

Everything we know about Pinewood Estates

16pages on Pinewood Estates
After high school

Colleges nearby

None within 15 miles of Pinewood Estates; the nearest are

About Pinewood Estates

Census-designated place in Texas, United States

Pinewood Estates is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hardin County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,641 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.

From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)

Area
13 sq mi
Elevation
26 ft
Area code
409

Questions about Pinewood Estates

Short answers, built from the data on this page.

Is Pinewood Estates, TX expensive?

Yes. The typical home is worth about $341,000, 15% above 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 C−.