Hankamer, Texas.
Typical home $323,558 (+0.3% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$580 (+52%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $1,041 +0%
- $322,517$323,558 since Sep 2025
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.
- Hankamer$1,698
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Hankamer, TX rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hankamer, Chambers County, Texas
The Census does not count Hankamer on its own, so the figures here are Chambers County's. Half the county's households earn more than $109,804 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Chambers County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Chambers County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hankamer is a small community in Chambers County, Texas, where more people own their homes than rent them across the county. Household incomes are higher than in most of the country, and the median age is a little younger than the national one. Many residents have lived in the area for generations, and neighbors tend to know one another well.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, building trades and professional services employ many local residents. Jobs grew across the county over the past year, and unemployment has stayed steady. Commutes are longer than the national average, and few people work from home, while fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in the country as a whole.
Things to do. Lake Anahuac, a lake a short drive away, is a good place for a quiet afternoon by the water. El Orcoquisac Archeological District, a historic fort site also a short drive away, offers a look at the area's past. The San Jacinto River, a longer drive away, is another option for a day outdoors.
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- 17,229households
- 35.1median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Chambers County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chambers County had 23,244 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anahuac weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chambers County
- Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region OperationsFractionating natural gas liquids1,243
- Barbers Hill ISDSchool district1,220FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,219
- Gulf Coast A CRH CompanyRoad construction630
- JSW Steel USAPlate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills598
- Targa DownstreamFractionating natural gas liquids493
- FlexSteelPipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing341
- S&B Engineers and ConstructorsPetrochemical plant construction330
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,115 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Chambers County, 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 Chambers County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Hankamer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hankamer$323,558
- 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 Hankamer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hankamer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.