Danbury, Texas.
Typical home $273,778 (-0.4% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$626 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,051 -0%
- $274,830$273,778 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,385 +10%
- $249,394$273,778 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.
- Danbury$1,437
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Danbury, TX fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Danbury, Brazoria County, Texas
Danbury is a city of 1,671 people in Brazoria County. Half its households earn more than $92,159 a year and half less, against $97,993 across Brazoria County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Brazoria County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Danbury is a small city in Brazoria County, with a population that stays well under the size of most towns in the area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a long one, so many residents spend a good part of the day on the road to work.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in shops, in manufacturing and in professional and business services. Across Brazoria County, some of the largest workplaces are Dow, a chemical maker, and school districts such as Alvin ISD and Brazosport ISD. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Austin Bayou, a river, and MSR Houston, a race track, are both a short drive away. For a day out, Galveston Island has a beach, and Brazos Bend State Park is a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, though both are a longer drive. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazoria County had 124,808 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Angleton West weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brazoria County
- DowAcyclic hydrocarbons made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons3,844
- Alvin ISDSchool district3,824FTE
- Pearland ISDSchool district2,554FTE
- Brazosport ISDSchool district1,833FTE
- OlinAlkalies manufacturing1,019
- Angleton ISDSchool district1,011FTE
- Marquis Industrial ServicesScaffold erecting and dismantling997
- BasfOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing991
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 209 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,438 people in all across the county; Danbury 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danbury’s 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 Brazoria County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Danbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danbury$273,778
- 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.
- Danbury16
Zip codes with a Danbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Danbury
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77534 | Danbury | 3,403 | — | $272,782 |
| 77577 | Liverpool | 1,562 | — | $271,635 |