Hillcrest, Texas.
Typical home $341,017 (+2.5% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$930 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,432 +3%
- $332,585$341,017 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,535 +23%
- $277,483$341,017 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.
- Hillcrest$1,790
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Hillcrest, TX rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hillcrest, Brazoria County, Texas
The Census does not count Hillcrest on its own, so the figures here are Brazoria County's. Half the county's households earn more than $97,993 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Brazoria County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brazoria 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hillcrest sits in Brazoria County, Texas, where winters are mild, with January the coldest month and August the warmest. Snow is rare, but a great deal of rain falls over the year, so the land stays wet. Across Brazoria County, most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, professional and business services, and building trades are the main fields where residents work. Across the county, unemployment is much the same as it was at this time last year, and job numbers have risen over the past year.
Things to do. Brazos Bend State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away, and the Brazos River, one of the best known rivers nearby, is also a longer drive. MSR Houston, a race track, is a short drive away.
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- 133,898households
- 36.7median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Brazoria County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazoria County had 124,808 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 53 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Angleton West weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brazoria County
- DowAcyclic hydrocarbons made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons3,844
- Alvin ISDSchool district3,824FTE
- Pearland ISDSchool district2,554FTE
- Brazosport ISDSchool district1,833FTE
- OlinAlkalies manufacturing1,019
- Angleton ISDSchool district1,011FTE
- Marquis Industrial ServicesScaffold erecting and dismantling997
- BasfOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing991
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 209 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,438 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Brazoria County, 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 Brazoria County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Hillcrest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hillcrest$341,017
- 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.
- Hillcrest10
Zip codes with a Hillcrest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hillcrest — 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.