We used science and data to determine which Texas towns are redneck heaven.

This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as info-tainment. Don’t freak out.


Is there anything really wrong with being called a Texas redneck? Most rednecks would say, “I don’t care what you call me, as long as you call me for supper.”

Rednecks are a part of our culture. They are hailed as being great in our song lyrics. They’re prominently featured in reality television. There are even video games about rednecks.

So, you’d think people who are rednecks would be proud to be called a redneck. Especially down in eastern Texas (where most of the cities ended up being located). Here, you’ve got people who vote one way, who stick to their own, and who would rather rely on each other than on the government.

Wait. What is a redneck anyways? Well, according to the official bible of literature, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a redneck is:

“A white person who lives in a small town or in the country especially in the southern U.S., who typically has a working-class job, and who is seen by others as being uneducated and having opinions and attitudes that are offensive.”

Plus, we thought why not add in a few stereotypes? Cause, you know, rednecks live in mobile home parks and they like to hunt, drink, chew and shoot things. They eat at Waffle House and shop at Bass Pro Shops, Walmart and Dollar General.

Using that criteria, it’s not hard to scrape the internet, run some scientific data on where rednecks might live in Texas, and then put out a list.

Because, the data never lies, does it? So hold our beers and watch while we run some rankings!

After analyzing 370 cities with a population between 2,500 and 10,000, we’ve finally determined these are The Most Redneck Cities in Texas:

Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and how your town ranked.

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What redneck criteria did we use?

In order to rank the most redneck cities in Texas, we had to determine what criteria makes a redneck.

We threw a lot of criteria at this one in order to get the best, most complete results possible. Using Yelp and Google Maps, this is the criteria we used:

The dictionary definition categories

Small towns

Least amount of high school graduates

Lives in the south

And the stereotypical categories

Number of dive bars per city

Number of mobile home parks per capita

Number of tobacco stores per city

Number of guns and ammo stores per city

Walmarts, Waffle Houses, Bass Pro Shops, and Dollar Generals nearby

Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a city’s border, as well as within a short driving distance.

If you’d like to see the complete list of cities, from most to least redneck, we put in a list of the cities in a chart at the bottom. Hope you’re on there if you want to be.


1. Vidor

Barbue Depot, Vidor, TX. Google Maps.

Population: 10,122

Gun stores per capita: 9th in Texas

Bars per capita: 9th in the state

Dollar General rank: 2nd

Walmart rank: 4th

Dayuuuum, Vidor! You have the official bragging rights as being named the most redneck city in the entire state of Texas. You may now brag to your friends and share this endlessly on your Facebook walls.

Lets see why. Out of over 300 cities, Vidor has the 9th most places to buy guns and the 9th highest number of bars, per capita, in the state. That’s a redneck combination for sure.

Plus, there are 4 Dollar Generals in town, a Walmart, and several Waffle Houses in the general area, which is just outside of Beaumont.

And, when you read the forum comments about Vidor, it’s pretty clear that there’s a redneck mentality here. So, our data is apparently pretty accurate.

Did you know Vidor is 97% white? Now, all young redneck pups have a place they can aspire to grow up in one day.

2. Schulenburg

Roy’s Guns, Schulenburg, TX. Google Maps

Population: 2,877

Gun stores per capita and the area: 9th most in Texas

High school graduation rate: 64%

Chew per capita: 11th

Little ole Schulenburg, Texas is a pretty rednecky place. At least that’s what the data says.

You’ve got plenty of opportunities to throw back a cold one in the area here, and it’s centrally located on I-10 in between Houston and San Antonio. So, you can bet lots of rednecks sit back and watch the ‘city folk’ pass through town every day.

Most likely, the rednecks way out in Schulenburg are doing all sorts of redneck stuff all day. Mudding, blowing stuff up. That sort of thing.

3. Cleveland

Buffalo, Too! bar in Cleveland, TX. Google maps

Population: 7,835

High school graduation rate: 58%

Bars per capita and in area: 25th in Texas

Tobacco shops in the area: 40th in the state

Mobile home parks in area: 37th

An hour north of Houston is the small town of Cleveland, Texas. Up here, you have lots of options to get your fishing gear and your chew and smokes. And, it’s a very blue collar population – nearly half of the residents didn’t finish high school.

Cleveland rednecks have their very own Cleveland RV and Mobile Home Park, which is just the place you want to be when they sit around and talk about when rut’s gonna hit.

Located nearby is the Sam Houston National Forest, where rednecks fish all day and shoot at deer, rabbit, squirrel, coon, wild hogs, ducks and dove.

Sounds like redneck heaven, doesn’t it?

4. Trinity

South Oaks Mobile Home Park, Trinity, TX. Google maps.

Population: 2,693

Chew factor: 9th in Texas

Fishing/bait shops per capita: 19th in the state

Mobile home park rank: 13th

Little Trinity, a city in eastern Texas, is a blue collar place with the 9th highest concentration of tobacco stores in the area, and the 19th most places to get your bait and tackle.

Rednecks here have it made: They are smack dab in the middle between Lake Trinity and the Davy Crockett National Forest.

There are only two stoplights in this speck of a redneck town. That means when Trinity rednecks get too liquored up, they can probably ride the mower into Dollar General without getting busted.

5. Giddings

Tejas Trading Post, Giddings, TX. Google Maps

Population: 4,905

Walmart rank: 30th in Texas

High school graduation rate: 61%

Waffle House rank: 18th in the state

Guns and ammo rank: 35th

Giddings is a smallish town about an hour east of Austin on Route 290. Here, you’ve got one of the highest concentrations of rednecks. There are plenty of places to buy guns and ammo, and a Walmart all to themselves. Bonus: Rednecks here have a Buc-ee’s, too.

This Google Maps comment about the Giddings Buc-ee’s just about sums up how redneck it is here:

“I went in pee and my car got scratch by some punk guy. White guy with hat and tight jeans. U can go f urself. I will shoot u if i c u again.”

She probably didn’t mean it, since the Giddings’ Town Motto is: ‘Giddings Texas: Experience Hometown Hospitality’.

6. Hillsboro

Downtown Hillsboro, TX. Google maps

Population: 8,488

Bars per capita: 32nd in the state

High school graduation rate: 60%

Mobile home parks: 21st in TX

Here in Hillsboro, rednecks have many options for trailer park or mobile home park living. Nothing says love like sharing a bottle of hooch at a community swimming pool while the little ones are splashing in their camo bathing suits.

There’s a Walmart and Tractor Supply in the same parking lot. So while dad works on getting the truck hitch fixed, mom can shop for an outfit for the church carnival next weekend.

7. Jersey Village

There are lots of rednecks dressed as working people in the Jersey Village, TX gun store. Freedom Munitions Facebook page

Population: 7,862

High school graduation rate: 53%

Guns and ammo rank: 31st in TX

Fishing/bait shops per capita: 6th most

Walmart rank:1st in Texas

There are 9…yes 9 Walmarts within a short driving distance of Jersey Village, a small city outside of Houston. What does a redneck do when one Walmart is out of bullets? They go to the other Walmart.

Most population appears to be working-class rednecks with paychecks who have lots of options to buy ammo and bait, then fire up the truck to make the evening trek out to the lake.

8. Seminole

Seminole, TX. Google Maps

Population: 5,910

Guns and ammo per capita: 21st in Texas

Bars per capita: 19th in TX

Walmarts per capita: 9th

There’s simply a higher number of places for the rednecks in Seminole to get their ammo, bait, cold beer and chew. Fun fact: Seminole is the only city in western Texas to make this list.

It’s also the home to country singers Larry Gatlin and Tanya Tucker. Most people would consider their style of country and western pretty redneck.

9. Hallsville

Bruce’s Bar-B-Q Kountry, Hallsville, TX. Google maps

Population: 3,898

Chew factor: 15th in the state

Dollar store rank: 3rd in Texas

Bait shops in area: 9th in Texas

A whopping 90% of the people who live in Hallsville are white. And while they don’t have a Walmart of their very own, there are 5 within a 30 minute drive. The city is just about as far in eastern Texas you can get before you’re in Louisiana.

According to Wikipedia, the town of Hallsville has ‘really grown’ lately, and it now boasts five traffic lights, two dollar stores and several fast food restaurants.

If that’s not a redneck description of a town, what is?

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Daddy Sam’s BBQ & Catfish, Carthage, TX. Google Maps

Population: 6,816

Mobile home parks in area: 11th most in Texas

Bars per capita and in area: 35th most in the state

Chew factor: 10

The numbers indicate that there is a heavy concentration of rednecks in Carthage, TX, whose city motto is “Country At Its Best.” Carthage is near the Louisiana state line.

They have plenty of options to throw back a few Busch Lights, and there are a high number of places they can get their chew. Carthage’s ‘chew factor’ is a 10.

Nearby is Martin Lake and Lake Murvaul, plus a bunch of other smaller fishing holes that may or may not be ‘private.’

But that never stopped a redneck determined to catch dinner.

There You Have It

According to the official dictionary definition of a redneck, and based on stereotypes that the internet says are true, using science to determine the most redneck cities in a state can’t be too far off. If you’re analyzing smaller cities in Texas with blue collar workers, where people have lots of options for drinking, smoking, hunting and Walmarting, this is an accurate list.

We published a story on the 10 worst cities to live in Texas that might be more ‘stimulating’ reading for your day. Click here to read it.

City Population Rank Vidor 10122 1 Schulenburg 2877 2 Cleveland 7835 3 Trinity 2693 4 Giddings 4905 5 Hillsboro 8488 6 Jersey Village 8109 7 Seminole 5910 8 Hallsville 3638 9 Carthage 6816 10 Olivarez 3914 11 Jersey Village 7630 12 Palmview 5538 13 Nolanville 4227 14 Shepherd 2711 15 Laguna Heights 2715 16 Lyford 2638 17 Springtown 2655 17 Seminole 6504 18 George West 2544 18 Port Aransas 3568 21 Wimberley 2649 22 Anson 2520 22 Stamford 3114 22 Lost Creek 4382 25 Malakoff 2791 25 Pantego 2783 27 Lakehills 5637 28 Bowie 5256 29 Ozona 3065 30 Spearman 3418 30 North Alamo 3679 32 Hornsby Bend 6768 32 Canutillo 7159 34 Commerce 8153 35 Refugio 2883 36 Hudson 4794 37 Silsbee 6655 38 South Padre Island 2845 39 Luling 5518 40 West Columbia 3919 41 Grand Saline 3143 42 Marfa 2567 42 Alvarado 3807 44 Nixon 2568 45 Blue Mound 2673 46 Venus 2963 47 Crystal City 7206 48 West Lake Hills 3134 49 Center 5255 50 Midway North 5219 51 Prosper 9974 51 Big Lake 3196 53 Scissors 2741 54 Columbus 3722 55 Everman 6161 56 Marble Falls 6092 57 Bacliff 7603 58 Prairie View 5586 59 Crane 3479 60 West Livingston 8203 61 Doffing 5041 62 Hickory Creek 3273 63 Muleshoe 5602 64 Premont 2678 65 Rio Bravo 4904 66 Sanger 6967 67 Fort Bliss 8234 68 Chula Vista (Maverick County) 3901 69 Roanoke 6072 70 Crockett 6906 71 Anna 8096 72 Fair Oaks Ranch 6092 73 Encantada-Ranchito-El Calaboz 2685 74 Wills Point 3528 75 Hamilton 3074 76 Pittsburg 4510 77 Ballinger 3778 78 Floresville 6633 89 Cienegas Terrace 3194 80 Sansom Park 4694 81 Cameron 5553 82 Dimmitt 4349 82 Homestead Meadows North 4607 83 Joshua 5954 83 Richland Hills 7868 83 Needville 2820 83 Odem 2593 83 La Paloma 2762 83 Sweeny 3728 89 Junction 3085 90 Whitehouse 7708 90 Ovilla 3500 90 Haskell 3309 94 Castroville 2712 95 Hallettsville 2570 96 Ingleside 9584 97 Brady 5533 98 Lamesa 9430 99 Palmview South 5886 100

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