Combes, Texas.
Typical home $183,952 (-1.0% in a year). Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$485 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,861 -1%
- $185,813$183,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,903 +11%
- $165,049$183,952 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.
- Combes$966
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 32 years.
Typical home values in Combes, TX fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Combes, Cameron County, Texas
Combes is a town of 2,999 people in Cameron County. Half its households earn more than $45,504 a year and half less, against $52,601 across Cameron County. 89% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 11% are rented. Unemployment in Cameron County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Combes is a small town in Cameron County, in the southern tip of Texas, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are very hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and by shops. Across Cameron County, some of the largest workplaces are Brownsville ISD, Harlingen Cisd and Valley Baptist Medical Center. The jobs picture has been soft lately, with fewer jobs across the county last year than the year before, and the commute to work is short.
Things to do. The Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife, is a short drive away, as is Harlingen Field, a stadium. A longer drive brings you to Fort Brown, a historic fort, and to the Gladys Porter Zoo.
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- 1,111households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cameron County had 154,673 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 72° and lows near 51°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 77°. About 28 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harlingen weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cameron County
- Brownsville ISDSchool district5,916FTE
- Harlingen CisdSchool district2,767FTE
- Los Fresnos CisdSchool district1,628FTE
- San Benito CisdSchool district1,471FTE
- Valley Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,234FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs818
- Valley Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital781FTE
- Valley Baptist MED Cntr BrownsvilleGeneral hospital684FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 176 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 22,829 people in all across the county; Combes has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Combes’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Cameron County and the Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro.
Combes home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Combes$183,952
- 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.
- Combes15
Zip codes with a Combes address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Combes — 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.