Arcola, Texas.
Typical home $304,264 (-1.5% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$755 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,624 -1%
- $308,888$304,264 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,966 +8%
- $281,298$304,264 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.
- Arcola$1,597
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 44 years.
Typical home values in Arcola, TX fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arcola, Fort Bend County, Texas
Arcola is a city of 2,034 people in Fort Bend County. Unemployment in Fort Bend County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fort Bend County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arcola is a small city in Fort Bend County, in the Houston area, and its residents are young, with a median age well below what most older homeowners would expect. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and highs and lows that rarely feel harsh, and snow is almost unknown. Summers run hot, with August the warmest month, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Fort Bend County, the largest workplaces include Katy ISD, Fort Bend ISD and Methodist Sugar Land Hospital. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, the commute to work is fairly long, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Most of what draws visitors lies a longer drive away in Houston. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is one of the best known museums in the area, and the Houston Zoo and the Houston Museum of Natural Science offer outings for a day. For ball games, Daikin Park is a stadium a longer drive away.
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- 622households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Fort Bend County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fort Bend County had 260,929 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 74°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Thompsons Wsw weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Bend County
- Katy ISDSchool district12,969FTE
- Fort Bend ISDSchool district10,195FTE
- Lamar CisdSchool district4,802FTE
- IES ResidentialElectrical contractors3,374
- Methodist Sugar Land HospitalGeneral hospital2,455FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,434
- Memorial Hermann KatyGeneral hospital1,505FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,309
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 369 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,622 people in all across the county; Arcola has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arcola’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 Fort Bend County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Arcola home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arcola$304,264
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arcola10
Zip codes with a Arcola address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arcola — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.