Dickinson, Texas.
Typical home $266,845 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,456 (-0.8%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$663 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $942 -0%
- $267,786$266,845 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,275 +10%
- $242,569$266,845 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.
- Dickinson$1,401
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Dickinson, TX fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Dickinson, TX fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Dickinson runs $544/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $626 in Apr 2025.
That is $2,000 a month against $1,456 rent: a $1,401 mortgage payment, plus $314 property tax and $286 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Dickinson
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$2,000
- Renting$1,456
- Mortgage only$1,401
Property tax · $314/mo 1.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Galveston County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $286/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 Dickinson, Galveston County, Texas
Dickinson is a city of 20,847 people in Galveston County. Half its households earn more than $91,779 a year and half less, against $86,105 across Galveston County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Galveston County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Dickinson is a city in Galveston County, home to a fairly young population compared with many American towns. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and most homes are lived in by their owners, with a good number of renters too. A smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and many residents make a commute of moderate length to work.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Dickinson are Dickinson ISD, Branch Construction Group and Calumet Dickinson Refining. Some people work from home, though most travel to a job.
Things to do. Space Center Houston, a museum about the American space program, is a short drive away. Galveston Island, known for its beach, is a longer drive, as is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Winters here are mild and snow is rare, while summers turn hot, and rain falls fairly often through the year.
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- 7,722households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Galveston County had 126,458 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Nwso weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dickinson
- Dickinson ISDSchool district1,848FTE
- Branch Construction GroupUtility line, construction70
- DickinsonMail and parcel delivery46
- Calumet Dickinson RefiningOil-based additives made from refined petroleum35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 151 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of DickinsonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dickinson’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 Galveston County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Dickinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dickinson$266,845
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Dickinson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — 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.
- Dickinson31.57%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dickinson104
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dickinson25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Dickinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dickinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.