Pasadena, Texas.
Typical home $215,283 (-1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,361 (+0.3%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$526 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,205 -2%
- $219,489$215,283 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,024 +11%
- $194,259$215,283 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.
- Pasadena$1,130
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Pasadena, TX fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pasadena, TX rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pasadena runs $291/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $465 in May 2024.
That is $1,652 a month against $1,361 rent: a $1,130 mortgage payment, plus $291 property tax and $230 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pasadena
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$1,652
- Renting$1,361
- Mortgage only$1,130
Property tax · $291/mo 1.62% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Harris County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $230/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 Pasadena, Harris County, Texas
Pasadena is a city of 151,950 people in Harris County. Half its households earn more than $64,927 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Pasadena was 5.6% in August 2026, and Harris County had 0.5% 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. Pasadena is a large city in Harris County, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find in a city this size. Owners and renters share the city's homes in fairly even measure, so renting is common, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Pasadena are PSC Group, which handles marine cargo, HCA Houston Healthcare Southeast, a general hospital, and Taurus Industrial Group, which erects and dismantles scaffolding. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, and most people face a fairly long commute.
Things to do. Buffalo Bayou, a river, and Space Center Houston, a museum, are both a short drive away. Farther afield, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is a longer drive. Winters here are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 49,560households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 2,458,604 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 77°. About 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Hobby Airport weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pasadena
- PSC GroupMarine cargo handling services5,542
- Atlantic Plant Maintenance, Inc. (APM)Millwrights4,736
- JV Industrial Companies1,617
- Pasadena - Elara CaringHome health care agencies1,535
- Taurus Industrial GroupScaffold erecting and dismantling1,300
- HCA Houston Healthcare SoutheastGeneral hospital1,004FTE
- Performance Contracting824
- APComPowerMillwrights760
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 109 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,107 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Hurricanesrelatively high in parts of PasadenaRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of PasadenaRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of PasadenaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pasadena’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 Harris County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Pasadena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pasadena$215,283
- 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 4 Pasadena listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 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.
- Pasadena28.21%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pasadena26
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pasadena321
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pasadena81
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pasadena$234,923
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pasadena97.53%
Zip codes with a Pasadena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pasadena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pasadena
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77502 | Pasadena | 36,371 | $1,615 | $204,381 |
| 77506 | Pasadena | 35,114 | $1,331 | $159,998 |
| 77504 | Pasadena | 25,779 | $1,251 | $264,276 |
| 77503 | Pasadena | 23,866 | $1,290 | $201,719 |
| 77505 | Pasadena | 23,174 | $1,429 | $311,787 |