Bellville, Texas.
Typical home $436,911 (+0.4% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,140 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,844 +0%
- $435,068$436,911 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,464 +13%
- $385,447$436,911 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.
- Bellville$2,293
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Bellville, TX rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bellville, Austin County, Texas
Bellville is a city of 4,206 people in Austin County. Half its households earn more than $59,583 a year and half less, against $75,789 across Austin County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Austin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Austin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bellville is a small city and the seat of Austin County, with a median age a little above the national middle. Household incomes here run below the county's, though homes carry a high typical value. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month; rain falls through the year in fair amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Bellville are Bellville ISD, San Bernard Electric Cooperative and Brookshire Brothers. Most people travel to work rather than working from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one.
Things to do. Washington-on-the-Brazos is a protected area and a longer drive away, and Stephen F. Austin State Park, also a protected area, is a longer drive as well. For a quieter outing, the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is another protected area a longer drive away, and The John Fairey Garden is a botanical garden at a similar distance.
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- 1,640households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Austin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Austin County had 13,541 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 73°. About 44 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bellville 6NNE weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bellville
- Bellville ISDSchool district347FTE
- San Bernard Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power107
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores62
- N Baron OpcoSkilled nursing facilities48
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 217 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bellville’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 Austin County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Bellville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellville$436,911
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bellville listings — 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.
- Bellville22.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bellville106
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bellville16
Zip codes with a Bellville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.