Groves, Texas.
Typical home $189,020 (+7.7% in a year), asking rent $1,563 . Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$453 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,489 +8%
- $175,531$189,020 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,534 +15%
- $164,485$189,020 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.
- Groves$992
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Groves, TX rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Groves, Jefferson County, Texas
Groves is a city of 17,335 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $73,710 a year and half less, against $60,026 across Jefferson County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Groves is a small city in Jefferson County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run higher than across the county. Typical home values and rents sit at a moderate level, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and the year brings a lot of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Groves are Magnolia Manor, a nursing care facility, and Market Basket, a grocery store. The daily trip to work is fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Sabine Lake is a short drive away, as is Taylor Bayou, a river good for a quiet afternoon outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Big Thicket National Preserve, a large protected area, and to the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.
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- 6,131households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 124,810 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 74°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Arthur Southeast Tx Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Groves
- Magnolia Manor623110 nursing care facilities99
- Market BasketGrocery stores69
- GrovesMail and parcel delivery26
- KelkarIndustrial fastener supplier20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 214 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of GrovesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Groves’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Jefferson County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Groves home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Groves$189,020
- 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 5 Groves listings — 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.
- Groves18.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Groves49
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Groves18
Zip codes with a Groves address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Groves — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.