Brookshire, Texas.
Typical home $343,826 (-4.0% in a year), asking rent $2,274 (+3.1%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$870 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,440 -4%
- $358,266$343,826 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,456 +9%
- $314,370$343,826 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.
- Brookshire$1,805
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Brookshire, TX fell 4.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Brookshire, TX rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Brookshire runs $263/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $478 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,536 a month against $2,274 rent: a $1,805 mortgage payment, plus $364 property tax and $368 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Brookshire
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$2,536
- Renting$2,274
- Mortgage only$1,805
Property tax · $364/mo 1.27% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Waller County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $368/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 Brookshire, Waller County, Texas
Brookshire is a city of 5,066 people in Waller County. Unemployment in Waller County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Waller 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brookshire is a small city in Waller County, Texas, with a population that is still modest in size. Homes here are valued well above what the typical household income in the county might comfortably cover, and rents run high too. A larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical across the country, so the town holds a wide mix of circumstances. Winters are mild, with cool days in January, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Brookshire are Grundfos Brookshire, which makes centrifugal pumps, Thomas Instrument, which makes aircraft assemblies and parts, and Harmony Care at Brookshire, a skilled nursing facility. Unemployment across Waller County is close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are of moderate length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Stephen F. Austin State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, also a short drive away, preserves a piece of early Texas history. For a longer outing, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area set aside for wildlife. Cypress Creek, a river, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,722households
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Waller County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Waller County had 27,947 jobs in 2025, 4.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sealy weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brookshire
- Grundfos BrookshireCentrifugal pumps manufacturing285
- Thomas InstrumentAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing225
- Harmony Care at BrookshireSkilled nursing facilities120
- Duro Bag-KatyBags, coated paper, made from purchased paper96
- BrookshireMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 746 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brookshire’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 Waller County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Brookshire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brookshire$343,826
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Brookshire 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.
- Brookshire35.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brookshire121
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brookshire24
Zip codes with a Brookshire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brookshire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.