Hitchcock, Texas.
Typical home $212,091 (-0.1% in a year), asking rent $1,370 . Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$500 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $206 -0%
- $212,298$212,091 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,280 -2%
- $215,372$212,091 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.
- Hitchcock$1,113
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hitchcock, TX fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hitchcock, Galveston County, Texas
Hitchcock is a city of 7,301 people in Galveston County. Half its households earn more than $74,157 a year and half less, against $86,105 across Galveston County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% 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 shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hitchcock is a small city in Galveston County, home to a younger community than you would find in many places. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents sit at moderate levels. Household incomes run below the county's, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Hitchcock are Hitchcock ISD, RLN Industries and Compass Group. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than is typical, and the usual commute is fairly long, while few people work from home.
Things to do. Galveston Island, a beach, is a short drive away, as is Moody Gardens, an aquarium. Galveston Island State Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. Space Center Houston, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,712households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%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 63° and lows near 49°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 80°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Galveston Scholes Field weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hitchcock
- Hitchcock ISDSchool district305FTE
- RLN IndustriesAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, industrial warehouse62
- Compass Group23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 85 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of HitchcockRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hitchcock’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.
Hitchcock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hitchcock$212,091
- 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 4 Hitchcock 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.
- Hitchcock25.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hitchcock69
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hitchcock13
Zip codes with a Hitchcock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hitchcock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.