Riviera, Texas.
Typical home $236,080 (+9.1% in a year). Kingsville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$412 (+50%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $19,677 +9%
- $216,403$236,080 since Sep 2025
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.
- Riviera$1,239
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Riviera, TX rose 9.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Riviera, Kleberg County, Texas
Riviera, in Kleberg County, had 609 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Kleberg County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kleberg County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Riviera is a small community in Kleberg County, South Texas, with a population small enough that most people know their neighbors. Homes here are typically valued well above what the county's median household income would suggest is easy to afford, though fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural Texas community. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents of Riviera work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in government. A small number work from home. Across Kleberg County, the largest workplaces include Texas A & M University-Kingsville, the aircraft maintenance contractor V2X, and Kingsville ISD, and unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier, while the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. Los Olmos Creek and San Fernando Creek are both rivers a short drive away, and make for quiet time outdoors. Javelina Stadium, a stadium, is a longer drive away, as is Nolan Ryan Field, another stadium, for those who like to watch a game.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Kleberg County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kleberg County had 12,194 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 69° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 30 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sarita East weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kleberg County
- Texas A & M University-KingsvilleUniversity or college993
- V2XMaintenance and repair services, aircraft783
- Kingsville ISDSchool district442FTE
- H-E-BRetail280
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Christus Spohn Kleberg Memorial HospGeneral hospital173FTE
- Ecr-lprCalf production123
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter117
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,195 people in all across the county; Riviera has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Riviera’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Kleberg County and the Kingsville, TX metro.
Riviera home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Riviera$236,080
- 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.
- Riviera11
Zip codes with a Riviera address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Riviera — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.