WinnieTX
A town of 3,290, settled in 1895.
Is Winnie a good place to live?
Winnie gives you more for your money than most places: a typical home costs about $239K, 2.9 years of the Houston metro’s $82K median household income. It grades B overall, 106th of 640 graded towns in Texas. On the plus side, it is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns. Winnie’s median age is 27.1 years, where Texas’ towns sit at 35.9 years and U.S. towns at 40.5 years. The biggest park or preserve is Winnie-Stowell Park, at 30 acres.
What makes Winnie stand out
Where Winnie beats most towns.
94% of working residents leave Winnie for work
Where Winnie’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Winnie grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Winnie is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Winnie: who provides what
Winnie is unincorporated, so Chambers 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 Winnie.
Winnie trades lower home prices for longer drives to work, has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and has added a third more jobs in ten years.
Winnie has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs based here grew from 611 in 2013 to 796.
Most working residents leave Winnie for work: only 6% work in town. 4.4% of residents live below the poverty line in Winnie. Jobs based in Winnie grew to 796 in 2023, 185 more than in 2013.
| Winnie | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 4.4% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $81,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 6.4% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Health in Winnie trails 73% of U.S. towns
Winnie beats the Texas average on 0 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 19% of Winnie adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance.
| Winnie | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 74% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 24% | 19% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 18% | 17% |
| What stands out | Winnie | TX |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 8.1% | 5.7% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 16.7% | 12.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 7.9% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Winnie has mild winters and hot summers
January nights average 43.6°, milder than in 96% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 91.8°.
Winnie has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. The January low in Winnie is 44°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Winnie | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 44°F | 37°F | 22°F |
| July high | 92°F | 95°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Winnie earns an A− for cost of living
Homes are within reach (about $239K for the typical one, A− for cost of living), but half of working residents commute more than 36 miles.
The typical Winnie home is worth about $239,000, about the same as a year ago, 19% below the Texas typical home. Winnie’s median rent is $1,417 a month.
| Winnie | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 51% | 69% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,417 a month | $1,206 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Winnie faces a high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 64% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
| Winnie | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.1 miles per square mile | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.3% | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Winnie-Stowell Park | 0.2 mi | 30 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Everything we know about Winnie
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Winnie; the nearest are
About 1 of every 100 Winnie residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Winnie
CDP in Texas, United States
Winnie is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chambers County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,162 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 4.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 26 ft
- ZIP code
- 77665
- Area code
- 409
Winnie’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Winnie.
Stowell has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Winnie and Stowell report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Winnie with a neighbor →
Questions about Winnie
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Winnie, TX a good place to live?
By most measures, yes. Winnie grades B overall, better than 64% of U.S. towns and #106 of 640 in Texas. It grades C for health and B for schools.
Is Winnie, TX expensive?
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 A−.