Kenedy, Texas.
Typical home $174,538 (-4.0% in a year). Beeville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$39 (+4%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,332 -4%
- $181,871$174,538 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $86,360 -33%
- $260,898$174,538 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.
- Kenedy$916
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kenedy, TX fell 4.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kenedy, Karnes County, Texas
Kenedy is a city of 3,473 people in Karnes County. Unemployment in Karnes County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Karnes County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kenedy is a small city in Karnes County, in the brush country of South Texas. Household incomes across the county run a little above what many small Texas towns see, and a typical home here costs less than in most of the country. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and most people are used to short trips around town, with commutes that stay brief and almost nobody working from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in government, or in farming, forestry and mining. Among the largest workplaces in Kenedy are Kenedy ISD, Walmart and H-E-B. Across Karnes County there are slightly fewer jobs than a year ago, and unemployment is close to where it stood then.
Things to do. Medio Creek, a river, is a short drive away and gives a bit of water and shade in dry country. A longer drive brings you to Mission Nuestra Señora del Rosario, an archaeological site, and to the Wilson County Courthouse and Jail, which is now a museum. Winters are mild and summers are very hot, so outings tend to be pleasantest in the cooler months.
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- 1,368households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Karnes County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Karnes County had 6,162 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Karnes City 2N weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kenedy
- Kenedy ISDSchool district138FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters138
- H-E-BRetail119
- Ashland-KenedyDrilling mud compounds, conditioners, and additives manufacturing50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 307 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kenedy’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 Karnes County and the Beeville, TX metro.
Kenedy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kenedy$174,538
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Kenedy 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.
- Kenedy16.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kenedy23
Zip codes with a Kenedy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kenedy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.