Inez, Texas.
Typical home $348,224 (-0.6% in a year). Victoria, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$827 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,002 -1%
- $350,226$348,224 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,333 +6%
- $327,891$348,224 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.
- Inez$1,828
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 58 years.
Typical home values in Inez, TX fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Inez, Victoria County, Texas
Inez, in Victoria County, had 2,641 people in the 2020 census. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Victoria County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Inez is a small community in Victoria County in South Texas, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. Poverty is low, and homes here are worth more than many people expect for a place this size. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, and the building trades. Across Victoria County, the largest workplaces include Victoria ISD, Citizens Medical Center and Victoria College. Most people drive a moderate distance to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are creeks a short drive away, including Marcado Creek, Leona Creek and Arenosa Creek. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Guadalupe River and to Lake Texana, which suit anyone wanting a day on the water.
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- 850households
- 6%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Victoria County had 36,854 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 75°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Victoria Regional Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Victoria County
- Victoria ISDSchool district2,102FTE
- Citizens Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,102FTE
- Regency IHS TherapyPhysical therapy offices863
- Detar Healthcare SystemsGeneral hospital805FTE
- Victoria CollegeTwo-year college641
- VictoriaAll other basic organic chemical manufacturing527
- University of Houston-VictoriaUniversity or college510
- H-E-BRetail505
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 71 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,849 people in all across the county; Inez has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of InezRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Inez’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 Victoria County and the Victoria, TX metro.
Inez home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Inez$348,224
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Inez listings — 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.
- Inez29.39%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Inez21
Zip codes with a Inez address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Inez — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.