Manvel, Texas.
Typical home $441,112 (-2.3% in a year), asking rent $2,018 (+3.3%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,078 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,279 -2%
- $451,391$441,112 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,113 +12%
- $394,999$441,112 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.
- Manvel$2,315
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Manvel, TX fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Manvel, TX rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Manvel runs $1,379/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,695 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,397 a month against $2,018 rent: a $2,315 mortgage payment, plus $610 property tax and $472 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Manvel
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$3,397
- Renting$2,018
- Mortgage only$2,315
Property tax · $610/mo 1.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brazoria County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $472/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 Manvel, Brazoria County, Texas
Manvel is a city of 9,992 people in Brazoria County. Half its households earn more than $118,808 a year and half less, against $97,993 across Brazoria County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Brazoria County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% 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. Manvel is a small city in Brazoria County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year. Commutes tend to be long, and a good number of residents work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Among the larger workplaces in Manvel are Fagioli, a heavy-lifting company, E-Z Line Pipe Support Co, which fabricates structural steel, and V&S Construction Company, an excavation contractor. Many adults have a four-year degree, and the county's job market has grown a little over the past year.
Things to do. Most outings mean a longer drive into Houston. The Houston Museum of Natural Science and the Houston Zoo are both within that drive, as is Space Center Houston, a museum devoted to the space program. Sports fans can head to Daikin Park, a stadium that is one of the best known in the area.
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- 4,854households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazoria County had 124,808 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 76°. About 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Clover Field weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manvel
- FagioliHeavey lifting236
- E-Z Line Pipe Support CoStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing153
- V&S Construction CompanyExcavation contractors110
- Builders FirstSourceOther building material dealers44
- ManvelMail and parcel delivery37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 580 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of ManvelRelatively 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 Manvel’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Brazoria County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Manvel home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manvel$441,112
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Manvel listings, and the typical home goes pending in 43 days — 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.
- Manvel30.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Manvel43
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manvel200
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Manvel40
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Manvel$446,675
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Manvel97.92%
Zip codes with a Manvel address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manvel — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.