Channelview, Texas.
Typical home $208,902 (+0.0% in a year), asking rent $1,802 (+7.5%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$523 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $26 +0%
- $208,876$208,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,160 +13%
- $184,742$208,902 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.
- Channelview$1,096
- 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 Channelview, TX rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Channelview, TX rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Channelview runs $199/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $301 in Mar 2026.
That is $1,603 a month against $1,802 rent: a $1,096 mortgage payment, plus $283 property tax and $224 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Channelview
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$1,603
- Renting$1,802
- Mortgage only$1,096
Property tax · $283/mo 1.62% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Harris County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $224/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 Channelview, Harris County, Texas
Channelview, in Harris County, had 45,688 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $64,422 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Harris County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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. Channelview is a community in Harris County with a young population, with a median age well below what many older homeowners might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's, while a fair share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Channelview are Kirby Inland Marine, Channelview ISD and Northstar Energy Services. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, with only a small share working from home.
Things to do. Buffalo Bayou, a river, runs in or beside town. A longer drive away are Reliant Stadium, one of the area's best known stadiums, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a museum.
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- 12,626households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 2,458,604 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston-port weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Channelview
- Channelview ISDSchool district1,468FTE
- Northstar Energy ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction698
- Russell MarinePile driving, marine355
- Kirby Inland MarineMarine cargo handling206
- LewisGrocery stores150
- Eagle Railcar Services - Channelview, TexasLocomotive and rail car repair142
- Depot Connect InternationalStorage and testing of iso containers136
- Shawcor Pipe Protection LLC - ChannelviewCoating metals and metal products for the trade112
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,484 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Channelview’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 Harris County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Channelview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Channelview$208,902
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Channelview listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Channelview27.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Channelview64
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Channelview12
Zip codes with a Channelview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Channelview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.