Jacinto City, Texas.
Typical home $148,485 (-6.4% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$345 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,135 -6%
- $158,620$148,485 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,274 +4%
- $142,210$148,485 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.
- Jacinto City$779
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 80 years.
Typical home values in Jacinto City, TX fell 6.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jacinto City, Harris County, Texas
Jacinto City is a city of 9,613 people in Harris County. Half its households earn more than $47,318 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% 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 construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jacinto City is a small city on the east side of Houston, in Harris County. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in the building trades, manufacturing, schools, hospitals and social care, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Faust Distributing Company, a wholesaler of beverages, PK Industrial, which coats metals and metal products, and Cascades at Jacinto Rehab, a skilled nursing facility. Most people travel a fair way to their jobs, and very few work from home. Across Harris County, jobs grew only slightly last year, and unemployment is unchanged from a year earlier.
Things to do. Several places are a short drive away, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Houston Zoo and Buffalo Bayou, a river that winds through the city. Rothko Chapel, a quiet museum-like space for art and reflection, is also nearby. For sports, Daikin Park and Shell Energy Stadium are both a short drive away, and the Astrodome, a landmark stadium, is a longer drive.
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- 2,975households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%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 63° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 54 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston-port weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jacinto City
- Faust Distributing Company - CorporateBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers276
- PK Industrial, LLC (Jacinto City, TX)Coating metals and metal products for the trade196
- TAS Energy Inc. FidelityHeating and air conditioning combination units manufacturing105
- Cascades at Jacinto RehabSkilled nursing facilities75
- SB Houston 10Grocery stores44
- Petroleum ExpressTanker trucking, long-distance35
- SHECO IndustriesHeat exchangers manufacturing30
- Discount TireTire dealers24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 809 people in all. 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 moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jacinto City’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.
Jacinto City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jacinto City$148,485
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Jacinto City 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jacinto City19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jacinto City6
Zip codes with a Jacinto City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jacinto City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.