Alvin, Texas.
Typical home $291,359 (-1.0% in a year), asking rent $1,758 (+1.5%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$741 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,883 -1%
- $294,242$291,359 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,954 +16%
- $250,405$291,359 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.
- Alvin$1,529
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Alvin, TX fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Alvin, TX rose 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Alvin runs $486/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $718 in Feb 2025.
That is $2,244 a month against $1,758 rent: a $1,529 mortgage payment, plus $403 property tax and $312 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Alvin
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,244
- Renting$1,758
- Mortgage only$1,529
Property tax · $403/mo 1.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brazoria County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $312/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas
Alvin is a city of 27,098 people in Brazoria County. Half its households earn more than $71,477 a year and half less, against $97,993 across Brazoria County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Alvin was 4.7% in August 2026, and Brazoria County had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Alvin is a city in Brazoria County with a fairly young population, and incomes that run below the county's. More of its homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though it has more renters than the county as a whole. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Alvin are Alvin Community College, a Kroger supermarket and Laurel Court, a nursing care facility. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many towns, and the commute to work is a fairly long one for most people.
Things to do. Galveston Island, a beach, is a longer drive away, as is Space Center Houston, a museum about the space program. The Houston Zoo is also a longer drive away, and so is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, an art museum.
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- 10,456households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazoria County had 124,808 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 74°. About 55 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alvin weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alvin
- Alvin Community CollegeTwo-year college668
- Phoenix MillworkMillwork installation132
- Laurel Court623110 nursing care facilities129
- Kroger Texas LP Houston KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores127
- Hawkins Lease ServiceConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline125
- The Lev at WinchesterSkilled nursing facilities101
- T & L Lease ServiceCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction91
- H-E-BRetail80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,226 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of AlvinRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of AlvinRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Alvin’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 Brazoria County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Alvin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alvin$291,359
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Alvin listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Alvin32.30%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Alvin40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alvin226
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alvin46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Alvin$299,414
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Alvin97.55%
Zip codes with a Alvin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alvin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.