Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 9,597, settled in 1909.
Vidor gives you more for your money than most places: homes are within reach, about $181K for a typical one, or 2.8 years of the Beaumont metro’s $65K median household income. It grades C− overall, 380th among Texas's 640 graded towns. The low prices come with trade-offs. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 87% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top, and residents are less healthy than 77% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Vidor’s January low is 42°F, above both Texas’ towns (37°F) and U.S. towns (22°F).
Where Vidor beats most towns.
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Vidor is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 2,136 in 1950, 9,789 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2004 and 5 maps from 1926 on.
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Vidor. Close and well known come first.
9 mi LandmarkSpindletop
3 mi National PreserveBig Thicket National Preserve228K visitors a year8 mi MuseumSpindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum
7 mi MuseumEdison Museum
7 mi MuseumArt Museum of Southeast Texas
8 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 Vidor, 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 Vidor.
Vidor has a longer frost-free season than nearly all U.S. towns and has homes that are cheap against local pay, but it carries more natural-hazard risk than most of Texas (mostly inland flooding).
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 99% of Texas towns; that rating is what its D for hazard risk is built on. 1,801 flood insurance claims have been filed here, and 340 properties have flooded more than once.
Since 1979, 1,801 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Vidor. Only 7 of the 642 Texas towns we compare have a higher FEMA risk score than Vidor.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by Vidor ISD. Two of its 6 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Vidor H S, with 1,175 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Forest ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–4 | Grades PK–4 | 671 | B− |
| Vidor H SLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,175 | B+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
At 2.8 years of the Beaumont metro’s $65K median household income, the typical home (about $181K) costs less against local pay than in 75% of Texas towns; that ratio is one input to its B+ for cost of living. Values rose 2.6% in the past year while the Texas typical home fell 1.5%.
Vidor’s median rent is $820 a month. The typical Vidor home is worth about $181,000, 39% below the Texas typical home.
| Vidor | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $820 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
26% of Vidor adults have been diagnosed with depression. Vidor beats the Texas average on 5 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 37% of Vidor adults have high blood pressure.
| Vidor | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 26% | 22% | 23% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 42% | 39% | 36% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Vidor | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 13.3% | 19.1% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 13.4% | 16.4% |
| More adults with COPD | 8.9% | 5.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The Beaumont City weather station, 7 miles away, records that the frost-free season runs about 299 days, longer than in 95% of U.S. towns. January nights average 41.8°, milder than in 95% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.9°.
Vidor has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The July high in Vidor is 92°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Vidor has about as many jobs (4,477) as working residents, but only 697 people both live and work here.
Most working residents leave Vidor for work: only 17% work in town. Jobs based in Vidor grew to 4,477 in 2023, 465 more than in 2013. The top destinations are Beaumont (25%), Houston (8%) and Port Arthur (5%).
| Vidor | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 17% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Median household income | $62,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 24 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 11% | 12% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
FBI crime data, 2025 · crimes reported to police
| Vidor | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 1.1% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
2 within 15 miles of the center of Vidor
About 6 of every 100 Vidor residents are enrolled in college, about the same as Texas.
City in Texas, United States
Vidor ( VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Beaumont and Rose City. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur and is part of the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area. Its population was 9,789 at the 2020 census.
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2 towns share a border with Vidor.
| Town | TX rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vidor | #380 | C− | B+ | C+ | C+ | C− |
| Rose City | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Mauriceville | #504 | D | B− | — | B− | C |
Mauriceville reports no FBI crime data of its own. Rose City isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Vidor with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Vidor grades C− overall, better than 21% of U.S. towns and #380 of 640 in Texas. It grades C− for health, C+ for safety and C+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B+.
