Cove, Texas.
Typical home $368,176 (+1.8% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$759 (+65%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,599 +2%
- $361,577$368,176 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.
- Cove$1,932
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cove, TX rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cove, Chambers County, Texas
Cove is a city of 525 people in Chambers County. Unemployment in Chambers County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chambers 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cove is a very small city in Chambers County, Texas, with far fewer people than most towns on a map. Home values here run well above what is typical across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and rain falls steadily through the year, with little or no snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services. Across Chambers County, the largest workplaces include Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region Operations, which fractionates natural gas liquids, and Barbers Hill ISD, the school district. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, even as the number of jobs there has grown.
Things to do. A short drive away are the El Orcoquisac Archeological District, the site of an old fort, and Houston Raceway Park, a race track. Stallworth Stadium is also close by. For a longer outing, Space Center Houston is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Chambers County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chambers County had 23,244 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anahuac weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chambers County
- Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region OperationsFractionating natural gas liquids1,243
- Barbers Hill ISDSchool district1,220FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,219
- Gulf Coast A CRH CompanyRoad construction630
- JSW Steel USAPlate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills598
- Targa DownstreamFractionating natural gas liquids493
- FlexSteelPipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing341
- S&B Engineers and ConstructorsPetrochemical plant construction330
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,115 people in all across the county; Cove 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cove’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 Chambers County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Cove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cove$368,176
- 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.
- Cove5
Zip codes with a Cove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cove — 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.