Kingsville, Texas.
Typical home $141,978 (-1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,506 (+7.8%). Kingsville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$291 (+64%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,800 -2%
- $144,778$141,978 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,029 +1%
- $140,949$141,978 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.
- Kingsville$745
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Kingsville, TX fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Kingsville, TX rose 7.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Kingsville runs $435/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $480 in Jul 2026.
That is $1,071 a month against $1,506 rent: a $745 mortgage payment, plus $174 property tax and $152 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Kingsville
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,071
- Renting$1,506
- Mortgage only$745
Property tax · $174/mo 1.47% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Kleberg County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $152/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Kingsville, Kleberg County, Texas
Kingsville is a city of 25,402 people in Kleberg County. Half its households earn more than $58,148 a year and half less, against $61,292 across Kleberg County; 31% of its people live below the poverty line. 44% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 56% are rented. Unemployment in Kingsville was 4.8% in August 2026, and Kleberg County had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Kingsville is a young city, with a median age well below what is typical across much of the country, and a good share of its residents are renters rather than owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than in most places. Typical home values and rents are moderate, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many US cities.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and government. Among the largest workplaces in Kingsville are Kingsville ISD, H-E-B and Christus Spohn Kleberg Memorial Hospital. Commutes are short, and few people work from home. Unemployment has eased slightly from a year ago, and Kleberg County has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Javelina Stadium and Nolan Ryan Field, both stadiums in or beside town, are the closest places to catch a game. A longer drive away are the South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center, a botanical garden, and Lake Findley, a lake. Winters are mild and summers are very hot, with little or no snow and a moderate amount of rain through the year.
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- 9,721households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kleberg County had 12,194 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 68° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 31 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kingsville weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kingsville
- Kingsville ISDSchool district442FTE
- H-E-BRetail280
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Christus Spohn Kleberg Memorial HospGeneral hospital173FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter117
- Kingsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center106
- AramarkFood service contractors105
- KingsvilleMail and parcel delivery46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,135 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of KingsvilleRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingsville’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 Kleberg County and the Kingsville, TX metro.
Kingsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingsville$141,978
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Kingsville 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.
- Kingsville21.74%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kingsville123
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kingsville26
Zip codes with a Kingsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Kingsville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78363 | Kingsville | 28,920 | $1,506 | $141,142 |
| 78379 | Riviera | 1,659 | — | $251,571 |