Portland, Texas.
Typical home $269,720 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,582 (+8.5%). Corpus Christi, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$621 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,423 +2%
- $265,297$269,720 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,969 +14%
- $236,751$269,720 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.
- Portland$1,416
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Portland, TX rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Portland, TX rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Portland runs $457/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $544 in Jul 2025.
That is $2,039 a month against $1,582 rent: a $1,416 mortgage payment, plus $335 property tax and $289 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Portland
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$2,039
- Renting$1,582
- Mortgage only$1,416
Property tax · $335/mo 1.49% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Patricio County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $289/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 Portland, San Patricio County, Texas
Portland is a city of 20,383 people in San Patricio County. Half its households earn more than $83,865 a year and half less, against $69,704 across San Patricio County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. 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 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. Portland is a Texas Gulf Coast city in San Patricio County, with a population that skews younger than much of the country. Household incomes here run higher than across the county, and most homes are lived in by their owners, with a smaller group renting. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good share. Among the larger workplaces in town are H-E-B, Coastal Palms Nursing & Rehab and Goodwill Industries of South Texas. The typical commute is a short one, and a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are the USS Lexington, a museum ship, and the Texas State Aquarium, along with the Art Museum of South Texas. For time outdoors, Mustang Island State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, so much of the year suits getting outside.
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- 7,554households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%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 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 76°. About 31 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corpus Christi Weather Service weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Portland
- H-E-BRetail295
- Cedar Dr OpcoSkilled nursing facilities112
- Coastal Palms Nursing & RehabNursing homes95
- Goodwill Industries of South TexasUsed merchandise stores26
- PortlandMail and parcel delivery26
- Brookdale NorthshoreRetirement homes without nursing care22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 576 people in all. 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 in parts of PortlandRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Portland’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 San Patricio County and the Corpus Christi, TX metro.
Portland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Portland$269,720
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Portland listings, and the typical home goes pending in 37 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Portland31.05%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Portland126
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Portland29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Portland$293,343
- United States$371,553
Zip codes with a Portland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Portland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.