Texas · Off-grid & homestead potential
Ellis County is a solid bolthole (56/100). Its strengths are almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (40.1″/yr). The trade-offs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 31 mi from the nearest metro.
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Ellis County is a solid bolthole (56/100). Its strengths: almost no federal land or extraction and decent rainfall (40.1″/yr). Watch-outs: elevated natural-hazard exposure and 31 mi from the nearest metro.
Land in Ellis County runs about $5,374 per acre, based on the latest county data.
Ellis County gets about 40.1" of rain a year, with severe drought in roughly 19.9% of years.
The nearest major metro is about 31 miles away, and population density is 238.1 people per square mile.