Anahuac, Texas.
Typical home $264,804 (+1.6% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$628 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,067 +2%
- $260,737$264,804 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,397 +12%
- $236,407$264,804 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.
- Anahuac$1,390
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Anahuac, TX rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas
Anahuac is a city of 1,980 people in Chambers County. Half its households earn more than $77,500 a year and half less, against $109,804 across Chambers County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Chambers County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Anahuac is a small Texas city in Chambers County, and a young one by the numbers, with a median age well below what older homeowners might expect. Incomes here run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than most would guess for a place on the Gulf Coast. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and little or no snow, while August is hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Chambers County, the largest workplaces include Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region Operations, Barbers Hill ISD and Walmart. The county has added jobs over the past year, though unemployment has stayed about where it was a year earlier. Few people work from home, and most commutes take a little under an hour for the round trip.
Things to do. Water is the main draw. Lake Anahuac and Taylor Lake are both in or beside town, and Lake Charlotte is a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Double Bayou, a waterway, and the El Orcoquisac Archeological District, a historic fort site.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chambers County had 23,244 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anahuac weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chambers County
- Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region OperationsFractionating natural gas liquids1,243
- Barbers Hill ISDSchool district1,220FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,219
- Gulf Coast A CRH CompanyRoad construction630
- JSW Steel USAPlate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills598
- Targa DownstreamFractionating natural gas liquids493
- FlexSteelPipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing341
- S&B Engineers and ConstructorsPetrochemical plant construction330
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,115 people in all across the county; Anahuac has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anahuac’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Chambers County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Anahuac home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anahuac$264,804
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Anahuac listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Anahuac19.90%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Anahuac45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Anahuac9
Zip codes with a Anahuac address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anahuac — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.