Boling, Texas.
Typical home $223,682 (+3.3% in a year). El Campo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$464 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,120 +3%
- $216,562$223,682 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,825 +2%
- $218,857$223,682 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.
- Boling$1,174
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Boling, TX rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Boling, Wharton County, Texas
Boling, in Wharton County, had 930 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wharton County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wharton 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Boling is a small community in Wharton County, Texas, with a population that has stayed modest. Homes here are valued somewhat above what people in the county earn in a typical year of household income would suggest at first glance, and the winters are mild while the summers run hot. Rain is steady through the year, and the amount that falls is more than in many parts of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Wharton County, some of the largest workplaces are Wharton County Junior College, El Campo Memorial Hospital and H-E-B. Unemployment across the county has edged up over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Brazos Bend State Park is the best known nearby place, a protected area for time outdoors, though it is a longer drive away. The Rosenberg Railroad Museum is also a longer drive, and Smithers Lake offers water and open space at a similar distance. Most outings from Boling mean getting in the car for a trip out of town.
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What people in Wharton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wharton County had 16,194 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer 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 91° and lows near 73°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bay City Wtr Wks weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wharton County
- Wharton County Junior CollegeTwo-year college523
- El Campo ISDSchool district497FTE
- Wharton ISDSchool district352FTE
- El Campo Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital221FTE
- H-E-BRetail210
- Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USAAcrylic film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing210
- Lane CityWind power structure construction207
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters186
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,378 people in all across the county; Boling has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Boling’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 Wharton County and the El Campo, TX metro.
Boling home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Boling$223,682
- 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.
- Boling11
Zip codes with a Boling address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Boling — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.