VidorTX
A town of 9,708. A typical home worth about $186K.
What makes Vidor stand out
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The data
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A typical Vidor home is worth about $186K
The typical Vidor home is worth about $186,000, up 1.8% in a year, 38% below the Texas typical home.
Typical home value
About one in six working residents works right in Vidor
Most working residents leave Vidor for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Beaumont (25%), Houston (8%) and Port Arthur (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.
Where working residents work
Vidor’s public schools outperform 46% of Texas districts
The public schools Vidor’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 54% of Texas’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
| School | Grades | Students | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Forest El | PK–4 | 671 | B− |
| Vidor El | PK–4 | 528 | B+ |
| Vidor Middle | 5–6 | 653 | B− |
| Vidor J H | 7–8 | 612 | B |
| Vidor Jjaep | 8 | 1 | Not graded |
| Vidor H S | 9–12 | 1,175 | B+ |
Healthier than 23% of U.S. towns
Vidor beats the Texas average on 5 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 10.
| 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% |
Very high risk, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 87% of U.S. communities.
Older than Texas overall, and fewer college graduates
People 65 and older are 18% of residents (13% statewide); children under 18 are 21% of residents (25% statewide). 11% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 34% across Texas.
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
| Vidor | TX | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10.3% | 13.3% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 10.6% | 11.7% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 7.9% | 9.7% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 14.8% | 14.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 11.8% | 14.1% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.8% | 12.3% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.8% | 11.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.2% | 8.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 7% | 5.2% | 7% |
| No diploma | 11.1% | 14% | 10.4% |
| High school | 38.7% | 24.3% | 26% |
| Some college | 29% | 20.1% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 10.5% | 7.7% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 6.9% | 21.5% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 3.7% | 12.3% | 14.1% |
Mild winters, hot summers
Vidor has warm winters and warm summers, with plenty of rain. A typical July afternoon reaches 92°, a January night drops to 42°, and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
Less crime per resident than 39% of U.S. towns
Vidor reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 61% report less.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents
Property crime per 1,000 residents
1.1% of Vidor is conserved land
1.2 miles of trails across 0 parks and preserves.
About Vidor
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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- Population
- 9,789
- Area
- 11 sq mi
- Elevation
- 23 ft
- ZIP code
- 77662, 77670
- Area code
- 409
Vidor’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Vidor.