Beaumont, Texas.
Typical home $172,183 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $1,287 (+1.8%). Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$335 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,905 +3%
- $167,277$172,183 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,289 +2%
- $168,894$172,183 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.
- Beaumont$904
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Beaumont, TX rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Beaumont, TX rose 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Beaumont runs $22/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $185 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,308 a month against $1,287 rent: a $904 mortgage payment, plus $220 property tax and $184 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Beaumont
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$1,308
- Renting$1,287
- Mortgage only$904
Property tax · $220/mo 1.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $184/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 Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas
Beaumont is a city of 115,282 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $56,997 a year and half less, against $60,026 across Jefferson County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Beaumont was 5.7% in August 2026, and Jefferson County had about as many jobs in 2025 as 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. Beaumont is a city in Jefferson County, on the Texas Gulf Coast. Incomes here run a little below the county's as a whole, and more homes are rented than in many towns, though a majority of homes are still lived in by their owners. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with rain through much of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in the city are Beaumont ISD, Christus Hospital and Lamar University. The typical commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Edison Museum and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas are among the best known places to visit. Big Thicket National Preserve, a protected area of woods and wetlands, is a short drive away. Sabine Lake is a longer drive, for a day by the water.
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- 45,001households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 124,810 jobs in 2025, about as many as 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 75°. About 65 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Beaumont City weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beaumont
- Beaumont ISDSchool district2,342FTE
- Christus HospitalGeneral hospital1,653FTE
- Baptist Beaumont HospitalGeneral hospital1,536FTE
- Lamar UniversityUniversity or college1,461
- Coburn Supply CoFittings and valves, plumbers', merchant wholesalers1,190
- MMR Constructors, Inc. - Beaumont OperationsElectrical contractors808
- B&E ResourcesStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing618
- H-E-BRetail596
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,138 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of BeaumontRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beaumont’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 Jefferson County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Beaumont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beaumont$172,183
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Beaumont 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.
- Beaumont26.44%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Beaumont40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Beaumont624
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Beaumont135
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Beaumont$209,551
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Beaumont96.34%
Zip codes with a Beaumont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beaumont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Beaumont
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77705 | Beaumont | 38,259 | $1,063 | $143,785 |
| 77706 | Beaumont | 30,393 | $1,419 | $242,834 |
| 77707 | Beaumont | 18,323 | $1,686 | $186,847 |
| 77713 | Beaumont | 15,541 | $1,367 | $265,328 |
| 77701 | Beaumont | 12,381 | $931 | $94,770 |
| 77708 | Beaumont | 12,065 | — | $175,707 |
| 77703 | Beaumont | 11,004 | $1,237 | $83,119 |
| 77702 | Beaumont | 3,121 | $1,100 | $139,876 |