Richards, Texas.
Typical home $407,461 (+1.3% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,110 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,290 +1%
- $402,171$407,461 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,059 +15%
- $355,403$407,461 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.
- Richards$2,139
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Richards, TX rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Richards, Montgomery County, Texas
Richards, in Montgomery County, had 184 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $75,500 a year and half less, against $97,701 across Montgomery County. Unemployment in Montgomery County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montgomery County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richards is a very small community in Montgomery County, Texas, where everyone is likely to know a good many of their neighbors. Household incomes here run below the county's, while the typical home is valued well above what that income might suggest. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and still fairly gentle, and summers get hot, with August the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, retail shops and the building trades also common. Across Montgomery County, big employers include Conroe ISD, Lone Star College System and HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, while the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Fanthorp Inn State Historic Site, a protected historic place, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Washington-on-the-Brazos, another protected historic area, and to Sam Houston National Forest, good for walking and time outdoors. Lake Conroe, a large reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Montgomery County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montgomery County had 235,441 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Huntsville Municipal Airport weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montgomery County
- Conroe ISDSchool district9,418FTE
- Lone Star College SystemUniversity or college6,772
- New Caney ISDSchool district2,715FTE
- HCA Houston Healthcare KingwoodGeneral hospital2,453FTE
- W W WebberRoad construction2,453
- 00W001 Insperity ServicesProfessional employer organizations2,226
- Houston Methodist the WoodlandsGeneral hospital1,881FTE
- Magnolia ISDSchool district1,868FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 387 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,763 people in all across the county; Richards has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richards’ 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 Montgomery County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Richards home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richards$407,461
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Richards address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richards — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.