Orange, Texas.
Typical home $182,024 (+4.5% in a year), asking rent $1,234 (-0.7%). Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$335 (+54%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,829 +4%
- $174,195$182,024 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,471 -1%
- $184,495$182,024 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.
- Orange$955
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Orange, TX rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Orange, TX fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Orange runs $104/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $349 in Oct 2022.
That is $1,339 a month against $1,234 rent: a $955 mortgage payment, plus $188 property tax and $195 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Orange
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$1,339
- Renting$1,234
- Mortgage only$955
Property tax · $188/mo 1.24% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Orange County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $195/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 Orange, Orange County, Texas
Orange is a city of 19,324 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $62,891 a year and half less, against $72,104 across Orange County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Orange is a small city in Orange County, Texas, with a population that skews younger than you might expect. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people here live below the poverty line than is typical for the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is a real option too. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and rainy, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and shops. Among the largest workplaces in town are Lamar State College-Orange, Sienna Shipyards and the Little Cypress-Mauriceville school district. Unemployment across Orange County has edged up slightly over the past year, while the county has added jobs. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people commute a fairly short way to work, with very few working from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center is a botanical garden, and the Stark Museum of Art is a museum. The Lutcher Theater is a theatre close by for an evening out. A longer drive away, Sabine Lake offers open water, and Big Thicket National Preserve is a protected area of woods and wetland.
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- 7,122households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 25,398 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orange North weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange
- Little Cypress-mauriceville CisdSchool district520FTE
- West Orange-cove CisdSchool district459FTE
- Lamar State College-OrangeTwo-year college186
- Sienna ShipyardsShipyard146
- Focused Cre at OrangeContinuing care retirement communities124
- Nelda C. & H. J. Lutcher Stark FoundationArt museums116
- Westport Orange ShipyardPaver, brick, installation110
- Kroger Texas LP Houston KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 806 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orange’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 Orange County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange$182,024
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Orange listings, and the typical home goes pending in 49 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.
- Orange24.15%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Orange49
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orange167
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orange34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Orange
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77630 | Orange | 28,983 | $1,239 | $148,781 |
| 77632 | Orange | 22,976 | $1,100 | $226,276 |