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Industry, Texas.

. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.

What it costs per month · Industry $1,556/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.

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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Texas $1,556 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • Texas$1,556
  • United States$1,922

Living in Industry, Austin County, Texas

Industry is a city of 268 people in Austin County. Unemployment in Austin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Austin County work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 268 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Industry for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 4.4% Austin County, August 2026; 4.4% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Industry for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Industry is a very small city in Austin County, with a population much smaller than most towns in Texas. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month and still fairly gentle, while summers turn hot by August. Rain and the occasional melted snow arrive steadily enough through the year that the climate is a fairly wet one.

Work. Residents of Industry work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Very few work from home. Across Austin County, some of the largest workplaces are Sealy ISD, Bellville ISD and Hailiang Copper Texas, and the county has added jobs over the past year.

Things to do. Several parks and historic sites lie a longer drive away. Stephen F. Austin State Park is a protected area along the river, and Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway offers a lake and trails to explore. For a look at local history, Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites is a museum-style historic site, also a longer drive away.

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  • 4%below the poverty line
  • 3%work from home

What people in Austin County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care17%
  • Shops (retail)14%
  • Building trades14%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Banks, insurance and property8%
  • Manufacturing8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Austin County had 13,541 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 61° and 40°; warmest in August, 95° and 74° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 61° 40° F M A M J J A 95° 74° S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 61° and 40°; warmest in August, 95° and 74° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 61° 40° F M A M J J A 95° 74° S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brenham weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Austin County

  1. WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,234
  2. Sealy ISDSchool district392FTE
  3. Bellville ISDSchool district347FTE
  4. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters254
  5. AtecBuildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing177
  6. Hailiang Copper TexasBronze products, rolling, drawing, or extruding, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants153
  7. Brazos ISDSchool district140FTE
  8. Gulf States ToyotaAutomotive parts, new, merchant wholesalers134

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,647 people in all across the county; Industry has none of its own. 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

  1. TornadoesRelatively high
  2. Strong windRelatively high
  3. HurricanesRelatively moderate
  4. Inland floodingRelatively moderate
  5. Cold wavesRelatively moderate
  6. LightningRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Industry’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 Austin County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.

Industry home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Industry address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Industry — 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.