Atascocita, Texas.
Typical home $306,569 (-1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,799 (+1.4%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,164 -2%
- $311,733$306,569 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,765 +10%
- $279,805$306,569 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.
- Atascocita$1,609
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Atascocita, TX fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Atascocita, TX rose 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Atascocita runs $553/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $848 in Oct 2022.
That is $2,352 a month against $1,799 rent: a $1,609 mortgage payment, plus $415 property tax and $328 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Atascocita
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$2,352
- Renting$1,799
- Mortgage only$1,609
Property tax · $415/mo 1.62% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Harris County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $328/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 Atascocita, Harris County, Texas
Atascocita, in Harris County, had 88,174 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $118,226 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Harris County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Atascocita is a large community in Harris County, home to a good many families and to people in the middle of their working lives. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the great majority of homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers get hot, especially in August; the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities, with manufacturing close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Atascocita are H-E-B, Kroger and Inframark. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Lake Houston, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings the Houston Zoo, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Buffalo Bayou, a river that runs through the city.
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- 32,581households
- 39%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 2,458,604 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 75°. About 52 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Intercont Airport weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atascocita
- H-E-BRetail459
- Houston Hauling337
- Kroger Texas LP Houston KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores104
- Atascocita Landfill40
- InframarkCollection, treatment, and disposal of waste through a sewer system37
- Encore Leisure GroupGolf and country clubs36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,013 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of AtascocitaRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of AtascocitaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atascocita’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 Harris County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Atascocita home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atascocita$306,569
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Atascocita listings, and the typical home goes pending in 39 days — 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.
- Atascocita31.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Atascocita39
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Atascocita439
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Atascocita112
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Atascocita$303,332
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Atascocita98.39%
Zip codes with a Atascocita address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atascocita — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.