Blessing, Texas.
Typical home $207,717 (+5.7% in a year). Bay City, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$316 (+41%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,214 +6%
- $196,504$207,717 since Sep 2025
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.
- Blessing$1,090
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Blessing, TX rose 5.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blessing, Matagorda County, Texas
Blessing, in Matagorda County, had 856 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $51,313 a year and half less, against $58,628 across Matagorda County. Unemployment in Matagorda County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Matagorda County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blessing is a small community in Matagorda County, on the Texas coastal plain. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes sit in a middling price range for the area. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs that stay comfortably above freezing, while summers turn hot, with August the warmest. Rain and the occasional trace of melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops also employing many. Across Matagorda County, the largest workplaces include South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, Tenaris Bay City and Matagorda Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor options are all a longer drive away. Lake Texana is a lake for boating and fishing, and the Colorado River runs through the region for anyone who likes time on the water. Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area suited to watching birds and other wildlife.
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What people in Matagorda County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Matagorda County had 11,495 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 78°. About 43 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palacios Municipal Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Matagorda County
- South Texas Project Nuclear Operating CompanyElectric power generation, nuclear1,200
- Tenaris Bay CityPipe made from purchased iron or steel657
- Bay City ISDSchool district533FTE
- Matagorda Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital293FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters269
- H-E-BRetail259
- Performance Contractors, Inc. - Roehm-Bay CityConstruction management, oil refinery and petrochemical complex249
- Palacios ISDSchool district223FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,938 people in all across the county; Blessing 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
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blessing’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 Matagorda County and the Bay City, TX metro.
Blessing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blessing$207,717
- 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.
- Blessing7
Zip codes with a Blessing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blessing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.