Devers, Texas.
Typical home $252,325 (-4.4% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$518 (+64%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,681 -4%
- $264,006$252,325 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,003 -3%
- $259,328$252,325 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.
- Devers$1,324
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Devers, TX fell 4.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Devers, Liberty County, Texas
Devers is a city of 361 people in Liberty County. Half its households earn more than $82,321 a year and half less, against $68,703 across Liberty County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Liberty County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Liberty County work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Devers is a very small city in Liberty County, Texas, with a population far smaller than most towns. Household incomes here run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural Texas town. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, while summers are hot and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across Liberty County, some of the largest workplaces are the school districts, among them Cleveland ISD, Dayton ISD and Liberty ISD. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical trip to work is a long one.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge and Village Creek State Park are both protected areas, each a longer drive away. Those who prefer indoor outings can visit the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, a museum that is also a longer drive from town. Lake Charlotte, a lake in the same wider area, offers another quiet spot for a day out.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
What people in Liberty County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Liberty County had 20,335 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 74°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Liberty weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Liberty County
- Cleveland ISDSchool district1,900FTE
- Dayton ISDSchool district806FTE
- Liberty ISDSchool district357FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters351
- Cleveland Emergency HospitalGeneral hospital317FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters303
- Tarkington ISDSchool district246FTE
- Dragon Products LibertyTanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing221
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,416 people in all across the county; Devers has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Devers’ 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 Liberty County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Devers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Devers$252,325
- 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.
Zip codes with a Devers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Devers — 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.