Alfred is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) northeast of Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas, United States.

Alfred is on State Highway 359, twelve miles (19 km) northeast of Alice in northeastern Jim Wells County.

The community was founded in 1888, when the site was in Nueces County, and was originally named Driscoll.

Since there could not be two post offices with the same name, N. T. Wright, the postmaster of old Driscoll, agreed to change the name of his post office to Alfred, in honor of his father, Alfred Wright, the first postmaster of the community.

In 1912 a school district was formed there, and in 1914 the town had a population of fifty, a general store, and six cattle breeders.