Mathis, Texas.
Typical home $75,895 (+1.5% in a year). Corpus Christi, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$30 (+8%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,123 +2%
- $74,771$75,895 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $28,136 -27%
- $104,031$75,895 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.
- Mathis$398
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mathis, TX rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mathis, San Patricio County, Texas
Mathis is a city of 4,333 people in San Patricio County. Half its households earn more than $35,271 a year and half less, against $69,704 across San Patricio County; 30% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in San Patricio County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mathis is a small city in San Patricio County, in South Texas. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes are modest in price. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places, and most people have a fairly short drive to work. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents of Mathis work mostly in the building trades, government, schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across San Patricio County, the largest workplaces include Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - Sinton, Gregory-portland ISD and Corpus Christi LNG. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Lake Corpus Christi, a reservoir, and Lake Corpus Christi State Park are both a short drive away, with water and open space for a day out. Lipantitlan State Historic Site, a protected historic area, is also a short drive away. The Nueces River is a longer drive away for anyone wanting to spend time along the water.
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- 1,807households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 30%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Patricio County had 21,467 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 28 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mathis Ssw weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Patricio County
- Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project Stage 3Industrial building construction5,940
- Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd._2440 Kiewit RoadDrilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building2,172
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - SintonSteel manufacturing973
- Gregory-portland ISDSchool district749FTE
- MMR Constructors, Inc. - Corpus Christi OperationsLow voltage electrical work482
- Corpus Christi LNGGases, industrial, manufacturing474
- Occidental ChemicalChlorine manufacturing348
- Sinton ISDSchool district331FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,551 people in all across the county; Mathis has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mathis’ 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 San Patricio County and the Corpus Christi, TX metro.
Mathis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mathis$75,895
- 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.
- Mathis10
Zip codes with a Mathis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mathis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.