Nederland, Texas.
Typical home $226,434 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,332 (+3.6%). Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$516 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,874 +3%
- $220,560$226,434 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,641 +12%
- $202,793$226,434 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.
- Nederland$1,188
- 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 Nederland, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Nederland, TX rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Nederland runs $388/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $425 in Jul 2023.
That is $1,720 a month against $1,332 rent: a $1,188 mortgage payment, plus $289 property tax and $242 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Nederland
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$1,720
- Renting$1,332
- Mortgage only$1,188
Property tax · $289/mo 1.53% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Jefferson County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $242/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 Nederland, Jefferson County, Texas
Nederland is a city of 18,856 people in Jefferson County. Half its households earn more than $77,570 a year and half less, against $60,026 across Jefferson County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Nederland is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well above the county's, and the share of people living below the poverty line is modest. The population is somewhat younger than in many American towns, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Nederland ISD, Sempra Services and Triple R Brothers. Commutes are fairly short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away, the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and the Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum are both easy outings, and Tyrrell Park offers green space close by. For a longer day out, Sabine Lake is a drive further off. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 7,471households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 124,810 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 74°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Arthur Southeast Tx Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nederland
- Nederland ISDSchool district646FTE
- Sempra ServicesGas & other services combined55
- NederlandMail and parcel delivery42
- Triple R BrothersHome centers, building materials28
- O'Reilly Auto Parts20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 145 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- 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 Nederland’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 Jefferson County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Nederland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nederland$226,434
- 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 5 Nederland listings, and the typical home goes pending in 14 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.
- Nederland18.20%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Nederland14
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Nederland71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Nederland26
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Nederland$235,648
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Nederland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nederland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.