A city of 113,279, settled in 1835. Home to 16 places on the National Register of Historic Places.
The 3 things Beaumont does most differently from other towns.
1913 · Beaumont is overrun with little newsies…
Robert Crippen12 postcards, papers and photographs from public archives, and 16 places on the National Register.
1917
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Ordered by what stands out in Beaumont. Another town gets a different order.
Beaumont beats the Texas average on 1 of 26 CDC measures and trails it on 12.
| What stands out | Beaumont | TX |
|---|---|---|
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 77.5% | 74.1% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 18.8% | 12.5% |
22 miles of trails across 27 parks and preserves.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Cattail Marsh | 5.3 mi | 782 |
| 2. Tyrrell Park | 4.7 mi | 468 |
| 3. Babe Zaharias Park | 1.3 mi | 30 |
45% of Beaumont’s working residents work right in town. The top destinations are Houston (11%), Port Arthur (5%) and Nederland (2%). Half commute less than 10 miles.
Beaumont reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 97% report less.
The public schools Beaumont’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 92% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
| School | Grades | Students | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pietzsch/Mac Arthur El | PK–8 | 1,134 | D− |
| Regina Howell El | PK–5 | 742 | B |
| Guess El | PK–5 | 722 | C+ |
| Caldwood El | PK–5 | 694 | D |
| Bob Hope School Beaumont | PK–8 | 536 | D− |
| Dr. Mae E Jones-Clark El | PK–5 | 530 | D− |
The typical Beaumont home is worth about $175,000, up 3.2% in a year, 42% below the Texas typical home.
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 79% of U.S. communities.
Beaumont has warm winters and hot summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 92°, a January night drops to 42°, and snow is almost unheard of.
2 colleges in town.
16 places in Beaumont on the National Register of Historic Places.
63 notable people were born in Beaumont.
City in the State of Texas
Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about 85 miles (137 km) east of Houston (city center to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 census, Its metropolitan area was the 10th largest in Texas in 2020, and 130th in the United States. The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; he also …
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