La Marque, Texas.
Typical home $229,828 (-2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,923 (+3.4%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$539 (+81%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,339 -3%
- $236,167$229,828 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,041 +4%
- $221,787$229,828 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.
- La Marque$1,206
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 97 years.
Typical home values in La Marque, TX fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in La Marque, TX rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in La Marque runs $200/mo less than renting one. The gap peaked at $229 in Jan 2022.
That is $1,723 a month against $1,923 rent: a $1,206 mortgage payment, plus $270 property tax and $246 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — La Marque
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$1,723
- Renting$1,923
- Mortgage only$1,206
Property tax · $270/mo 1.41% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Galveston County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $246/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 La Marque, Galveston County, Texas
La Marque is a city of 18,030 people in Galveston County. Half its households earn more than $71,102 a year and half less, against $86,105 across Galveston County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Galveston County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. La Marque is a city in Galveston County, on the Texas Gulf Coast. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's, with a real share of residents living below the poverty line. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, shops, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Walmart, Amazon and UPS are among the largest workplaces in La Marque. Unemployment across Galveston County is unchanged from a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Highland Bayou runs in or beside town and offers a stretch of water close to home. A longer drive away, Galveston Island has the beach, and Moody Gardens is an aquarium. Space Center Houston, also a longer drive away, is a museum for anyone curious about the space program.
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- 7,396households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Galveston County had 126,458 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Nwso weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in La Marque
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters353
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services300
- SitijiDelivery service90
- A&A Machine & Fabrication359980
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services76
- Faust Distributing Company - Galveston CountyBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers67
- AT&TWired telecommunications carriers31
- La MarqueMail and parcel delivery29
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,047 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of La MarqueRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of La MarqueRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 La Marque’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 Galveston County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
La Marque home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Marque$229,828
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 La Marque listings, and the typical home goes pending in 55 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- La Marque26.82%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- La Marque55
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Marque132
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Marque27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- La Marque$223,797
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a La Marque address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Marque — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.