Seven PointsTX
A town of 1,530.
Is Seven Points a good place to live?
Seven Points’ best subject grade is an A for cost of living; its weakest is a D− for incomes. 27% of residents live below the poverty line in Seven Points, against 12% in Texas’ towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Only 42 of Texas’ 990 towns score lower on incomes. Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 80% of U.S. towns. Seven Points's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 80% of U.S. towns. Seven Points has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
How Seven Points grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Seven Points is from typical.
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Moving to Seven Points: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Seven Points, 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Seven Points.
Health in Seven Points trails 74% of U.S. towns
Seven Points beats the Texas average on 2 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 11. 40% of adults have high blood pressure in Seven Points, where Texas’ towns sit at 35% and U.S. towns at 35%. 16% of adults report frequent physical distress in Seven Points.
| Seven Points | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 40% | 35% | 35% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 16% | 15% | 14% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 14% | 13% | 12% |
| What stands out | Seven Points | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 14.7% | 19.1% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 79.2% | 74.1% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 5.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Seven Points has mild winters and hot summers
Seven Points has mild winters and hot summers. Seven Points’ July high is 95°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Seven Points reports more crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns
The property crime rate in Seven Points is 15.5 per 1,000 residents.
| Seven Points | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 15.5 per 1,000 residents | 10.7 | 9.9 |
| Violent crimes per 1,000 (2025) | 1.9 per 1,000 residents | 1.9 | 1.6 |
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
Low risk in Seven Points, with cold waves at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 66% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A job hub: Seven Points has 1.1 jobs for every working resident and draws in 410 commuters
Most working residents leave Seven Points for work: only 3% work in town. Since 2013, Seven Points has added 116 jobs, to 423 in 2023. The top destinations are Mabank (9%), Dallas (7%) and Gun Barrel City (5%).
| Seven Points | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 35 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 3.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
| Seven Points | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.4% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Optimist Park | — | 6 |
| 2. Seven Points City Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Seven Points sells for about $365K at the median
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Seven Points
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Seven Points; the nearest are
About 5 of every 100 Seven Points residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
About Seven Points
City in Texas, United States
Seven Points is a city in Henderson and Kaufman Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Its population was 1,370 at the 2020 census, down from 1,455 at the 2010 census. The city is named for an intersection where seven roads converge. These are not Old West wagon trails, but the town did not exist until nearby Cedar Creek Reservoir was built in the 1960s and was not incorporated until the 1970s. The seven roads consist of two state highways (three directions), a farm-to-market road, and three county roads.
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- Area
- 2.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 384 ft
- Area code
- 903
Seven Points’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Seven Points.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Points | — | — | A | C+ | B− | C |
| Tool | — | — | C | B+ | A− | C− |
| Gun Barrel City | #395 | C− | B− | C | B+ | C− |
Seven Points and Tool have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Compare Seven Points with a neighbor →
Questions about Seven Points
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Seven Points, TX expensive?
Not for the area. The typical home is worth about $91,000, 69% below 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 A.