Calvert, Texas.
Typical home $181,085 (-2.6% in a year). College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $25 (-3%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $4,831 -3%
- $185,916$181,085 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.
- Calvert$950
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Calvert, TX fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Calvert, Robertson County, Texas
Calvert is a city of 962 people in Robertson County. Unemployment in Robertson County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 11.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Robertson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Calvert is a very small city in Robertson County, Texas, and the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain falls fairly evenly through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in the building trades. A small number work from home. Across Robertson County, some of the largest workplaces are GATX - Hearne, which repairs locomotives and rail cars, Franklin ISD, and the Oak Grove Steam Electric Station. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, though there are fewer jobs in the county than there were the year before.
Things to do. The Katy Hamman-Stricker Library, a museum in or beside town, is the nearest place to spend an afternoon. A longer drive away are Lake Bryan, a lake for time on the water, and the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History, a museum for a longer outing. Travis Field, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 336households
- 6%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Robertson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Robertson County had 5,641 jobs in 2025, 11.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Franklin weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Robertson County
- GATX - HearneLocomotive and rail car repair370
- Franklin ISDSchool district274FTE
- Hearne ISDSchool district196FTE
- Oak Grove Steam Electric StationElectric power generation, fossil fuel181
- Merico Abatement Contractors Inc - Luminant Power Plant- Oakgrove Power PlantSpecialty trade contractors104
- Builders FirstSourceEngineered wood member manufacturing91
- Franklin Nursing HomeNursing homes82
- Bremond ISDSchool district79FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,288 people in all across the county; Calvert has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Calvert’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Robertson County and the College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
Calvert home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Calvert$181,085
- 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.
- Calvert10
Zip codes with a Calvert address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Calvert — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.