Louise, Texas.
Typical home $301,226 (+3.2% in a year). El Campo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$684 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,382 +3%
- $291,843$301,226 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,178 +9%
- $276,047$301,226 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.
- Louise$1,581
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Louise, TX rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Louise, Wharton County, Texas
Louise, in Wharton County, had 889 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Wharton County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wharton County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Louise is a small community in Wharton County, Texas, with a young population: residents are younger than in most American towns. Very few adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values are well above what the county's incomes would suggest, so housing here asks a good deal of the people who live in it.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Wharton County, the largest workplaces include Wharton County Junior College, El Campo Memorial Hospital and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USA. Jobs across the county were slightly fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there has edged up compared with a year ago.
Things to do. The Tres Palacios River is a short drive away and is the nearest place to spend time by the water. Farther afield, Lake Texana offers a larger body of water, and the 20th Century Technology Museum is a longer drive away for an indoor outing. Winters are mild, with cool lows in January, and summers are hot, warmest in August, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Wharton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wharton County had 16,194 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Campo weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wharton County
- Wharton County Junior CollegeTwo-year college523
- El Campo ISDSchool district497FTE
- Wharton ISDSchool district352FTE
- El Campo Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital221FTE
- H-E-BRetail210
- Nan Ya Plastics Corporation USAAcrylic film and unlaminated sheet manufacturing210
- Lane CityWind power structure construction207
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters186
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,378 people in all across the county; Louise has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Louise’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 Wharton County and the El Campo, TX metro.
Louise home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Louise$301,226
- 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.
- Louise9
Zip codes with a Louise address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Louise — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.