Kennard, Texas.
Typical home $223,075 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$81 (+7%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $1,568 -1%
- $224,642$223,075 since Sep 2025
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.
- Kennard$1,171
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kennard, TX fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kennard, Houston County, Texas
Kennard is a city of 272 people in Houston County. Unemployment in Houston County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kennard is a very small city in the piney woods of East Texas, with few residents and a quiet, rural feel. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical across the country, and few people work from home. Winters are mild and cool, while summers are long and hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in government. Across Houston County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Vulcraft Group Grapeland Division, Crockett ISD and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area, a protected area, lies in or beside town. Davy Crockett National Forest is a short drive away, and Mission Tejas State Park is a longer drive away. Both are good places for time outdoors among the East Texas pines.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Houston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 7,667 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Groveton weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Nucor Vulcraft Group Grapeland DivisionFabricated bar joists manufacturing461
- Crockett ISDSchool district191FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters181
- Grapeland ISDSchool district131FTE
- Animal Comfort GroupLumber merchant wholesalers98
- Lovelady ISDSchool district89FTE
- Latexo ISDSchool district88FTE
- H-E-BRetail81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,358 people in all across the county; Kennard has one 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kennard’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Houston County.
Kennard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennard$223,075
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kennard14
Zip codes with a Kennard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.