Zip lookup · TX

77659
Sour Lake, Texas.

Sour Lake, Hardin County, TX · Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro · population 5,650

What it costs per month · 77659 $1,410/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+83%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $6,351 +2%
$262,256$268,607 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $26,855 +11%
$241,751$268,607 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 77659 $1,410 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 77659$1,410
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.

Typical home values in zip 77659 rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Sour Lake, TX — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $1,375 as of Aug 2026
Typical home value $268,607 as of Sep 2026
+2.4%year on year

Asking rent — 77659

Against the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro and the national benchmark.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Typical home value — 77659

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 77659 $268,607 Beaumont $186,305 United States $366,157
$150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 77659$268,607
  • Beaumont$186,305
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

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9.9 77519 Batson 716 — $187,422
11.4 77585 Saratoga 1,112 — $157,943
12.2 77713 Beaumont 15,541 $1,367 $265,328
14.2 77564 Hull 1,806 — $210,785
14.9 77625 Kountze 9,049 — $219,370
15.3 77657 Lumberton 22,258 $1,978 $277,623
16.4 77706 Beaumont 30,393 $1,419 $242,834
16.8 77708 Beaumont 12,065 — $175,707
17.0 77707 Beaumont 18,323 $1,686 $186,847
18.9 77702 Beaumont 3,121 $1,100 $139,876
19.0 77575 Liberty 16,613 $1,988 $217,083
19.5 77374 Thicket 244 — $189,210
19.6 77703 Beaumont 11,004 $1,237 $83,119

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.