Markham, Texas.
Typical home $155,609 (+14.2% in a year). Bay City, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$270 (+49%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $19,295 +14%
- $136,314$155,609 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.
- Markham$817
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Markham, TX rose 14.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Markham, Matagorda County, Texas
Markham, in Matagorda County, had 908 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $68,536 a year and half less, against $58,628 across Matagorda County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Matagorda County was 6.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Matagorda 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Markham is a small community in Matagorda County, with a population small enough that most people know one another by sight. Household incomes run above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here cost less than many Texans would expect to pay elsewhere. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and only chilly days and nights, while summers turn hot, peaking in August. Rain is plentiful through the year.
Work. Residents are most often employed in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and shops. Across Matagorda County, some of the largest workplaces are South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, Tenaris Bay City and Matagorda Regional Medical Center. Unemployment in the county has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Colorado River is the best known of the nearby places, a river reached by a longer drive. Also a longer drive away are the Varner–Hogg Plantation State Historical Site, a protected area with historical interest, and Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for wildlife. Lake Texana is another lake within a longer drive.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Matagorda County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Matagorda County had 11,495 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 73°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bay City Wtr Wks weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Matagorda County
- South Texas Project Nuclear Operating CompanyElectric power generation, nuclear1,200
- Tenaris Bay CityPipe made from purchased iron or steel657
- Bay City ISDSchool district533FTE
- Matagorda Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital293FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters269
- H-E-BRetail259
- Performance Contractors, Inc. - Roehm-Bay CityConstruction management, oil refinery and petrochemical complex249
- Palacios ISDSchool district223FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,938 people in all across the county; Markham has none of its own. 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
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Markham’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 Matagorda County and the Bay City, TX metro.
Markham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Markham$155,609
- 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.
Zip codes with a Markham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Markham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.