Vidor, Texas.
Typical home $181,301 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $1,430 . Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$302 (+46%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,494 +3%
- $176,807$181,301 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,066 -7%
- $194,367$181,301 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Vidor$952
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vidor, TX rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vidor, Orange County, Texas
Vidor is a city of 9,789 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $62,192 a year and half less, against $72,104 across Orange County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Vidor is a small city in Orange County, home to a settled, mostly older-leaning community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical home value and rent are modest compared with many parts of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. The largest workplaces in Vidor include Vidor ISD, Optimus Steel and Walmart. Orange County has seen job numbers grow, though unemployment there is slightly higher than a year ago. Most people drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Big Thicket National Preserve, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers a quiet change from town. Pine Island Bayou, a river, is also a short drive away. For an indoor outing, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is a short drive away, and Sabine Lake is a longer drive for time on the water.
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- 3,937households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 25,398 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 75°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaumont City weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vidor
- Vidor ISDSchool district699FTE
- Optimus SteelMini-mills, steel375
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters333
- Vidor Health and RehabilitationNursing homes106
- Oakwood Manor623110 nursing care facilities103
- The STI Group Fab, VidorFabricated structural metal manufacturing82
- Orange County Building MaterialsBuilding materials supply dealers49
- Market BasketGrocery stores48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,134 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vidor’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Orange County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Vidor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vidor$181,301
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Vidor listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Vidor25.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vidor94
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vidor21
Zip codes with a Vidor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vidor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.