Humble, Texas.
Typical home $252,244 (-1.6% in a year), asking rent $1,589 (-0.4%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,994 -2%
- $256,238$252,244 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,051 +13%
- $224,193$252,244 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.
- Humble$1,324
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Humble, TX fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Humble, TX fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Humble runs $347/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $503 in Nov 2023.
That is $1,935 a month against $1,589 rent: a $1,324 mortgage payment, plus $341 property tax and $270 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Humble
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,935
- Renting$1,589
- Mortgage only$1,324
Property tax · $341/mo 1.62% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Harris County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $270/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Humble, Harris County, Texas
Humble is a city of 16,795 people in Harris County. Half its households earn more than $57,011 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Harris County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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. Humble is a small city in Harris County, north of Houston. It is a young place, with a younger population than most of the country, and most homes here are rented rather than lived in by their owners. Household incomes are below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mainly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Humble are Humble ISD, Memorial Hermann Northeast and Costco Wholesale. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Houston, a reservoir, is a short drive away. The Houston Zoo and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston are a longer drive away, as is Buffalo Bayou, a river that runs through the city. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
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- 5,981households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 2,458,604 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than 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 95° and lows near 75°. About 52 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Intercont Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humble
- Humble ISDSchool district6,538FTE
- Memorial Hermann NortheastGeneral hospital1,406FTE
- Acadian - Houston DistrictEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground475
- CDI ProductsGasket, packing, and sealing devices manufacturing337
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters328
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer235
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters202
- HumbleMail and parcel delivery181
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,599 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of HumbleRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Humble’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 Harris County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Humble home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Humble$252,244
- 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 3 Humble listings, and the typical home goes pending in 46 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Humble30.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Humble46
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Humble436
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Humble86
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Humble$262,240
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Humble98.38%
Zip codes with a Humble address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Humble — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Humble
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77396 | Humble | 61,735 | $1,555 | $256,356 |
| 77338 | Humble | 48,031 | $1,518 | $229,767 |