Pinewood EstatesTX
This town in Texas has a population 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’ middle 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.
99% of working residents leave Pinewood Estates for work
Where Pinewood Estates’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
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.
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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.
in town National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year
18 mi LandmarkSpindletop17 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
13 mi MuseumBabe Didrikson Zaharias Museum & Visitor Center
15 mi MuseumEdison Museum
15 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast TexasPhoto 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
Moving to Pinewood Estates: who provides what
Pinewood Estates is unincorporated, so Hardin 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Pinewood Estates.
Fewer young adults than Texas overall
Pinewood Estates: 43% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more. Adults 18 to 34 are 3% of residents (24% statewide); children under 18 are 39% of residents (25% statewide). The midpoint age in the town is 37.9 years.
| Pinewood Estates | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 43% | 23% | 29% |
| Aged 65 or older | 14% | 14% | 18% |
| Median age | 37.9 years | 35.9 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
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.
| Pinewood Estates | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 15.2% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 23.5% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 3% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 0% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 22.3% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 9.2% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 12.7% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 5.7% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 8.4% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 0% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 22.9% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 18.7% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 15.6% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.8% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 24.1% | 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
Compared with most of Texas and the rest of the country, fewer of Pinewood Estates’ residents live below the poverty line
The average trip to work for Pinewood Estates comes to 33 minutes. Most working residents leave Pinewood Estates for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Beaumont (31%), Sour Lake (12%) and Houston (7%). Half the trips to work are shorter than 15 miles.
| Pinewood Estates | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 1.1% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
High risk in Pinewood Estates, with inland flooding at the top
Federal disaster aid has reached households in Pinewood Estates once, in 2017. FEMA puts 55% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 15% to hurricanes.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Pinewood Estates has mild winters and hot summers
Pinewood Estates’ peak summer temperature is 93°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Pinewood Estates is healthier than 57% of U.S. towns
Among adults 18 to 64 in Pinewood Estates, 11% have no health insurance. This Texas town does better than the Texas average on 8 of 31 CDC measures and worse on 5. Two figures for adults in the town: 32% have obesity, 18% binge drink.
| Pinewood Estates | Texas towns | U.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% |
| What stands out | Pinewood Estates | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 11.2% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.1% | 19.3% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Big Thicket National Preserve | — | 406 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
More of Pinewood Estates’ households are owner-occupiers than in the typical Texas or U.S. town
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Pinewood Estates
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Pinewood Estates; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Pinewood Estates residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
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.
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- 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−.