Hamshire, Texas.
Typical home $260,677 (+4.3% in a year). Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$540 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,657 +4%
- $250,020$260,677 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,221 +6%
- $245,456$260,677 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.
- Hamshire$1,368
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 58 years.
Typical home values in Hamshire, TX rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamshire, Jefferson County, Texas
Hamshire, in Jefferson County, had 962 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% 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 people in Jefferson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamshire is a small community in Jefferson County, Texas, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in and very few households live below the poverty line. Typical home values sit well above what the county's lower household incomes might suggest. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and cool days and chilly nights, while summers run hot, peaking in August. Rain and melted snow are plentiful over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Jefferson County, some of the largest workplaces are Beaumont ISD, Christus Hospital and Lamar University. Few people work from home, and a typical commute is a short drive of ordinary length.
Things to do. Outdoor options include Sabine Lake, a lake a longer drive away, and Big Thicket National Preserve, a protected area also a longer drive away. For an indoor outing, the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and it speaks to the region's oil history.
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- 3%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Jefferson County 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 62° and lows near 42°; 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 Beaumont Rsch Ctr weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Port Arthur Liquefaction ProjectIndustrial building construction5,809
- McDermott International- CCZJV ProjectNatural gas processing plant construction5,300
- Beaumont ISDSchool district2,342FTE
- Christus HospitalGeneral hospital1,653FTE
- Baptist Beaumont HospitalGeneral hospital1,536FTE
- Lamar UniversityUniversity or college1,461
- Port Arthur ISDSchool district1,303FTE
- Coburn Supply CoFittings and valves, plumbers', merchant wholesalers1,190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 262 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 49,338 people in all across the county; Hamshire has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of HamshireRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of HamshireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamshire’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 Jefferson County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Hamshire home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamshire$260,677
- 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.
- Hamshire8
Zip codes with a Hamshire address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamshire — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.