Rockport, Texas.
Typical home $303,890 (-4.7% in a year), asking rent $1,161 (-3.7%). Rockport, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$754 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,892 -5%
- $318,782$303,890 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,718 +4%
- $293,172$303,890 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.
- Rockport$1,595
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 97 years.
Typical home values in Rockport, TX fell 4.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rockport, TX fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rockport runs $1,017/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,109 in May 2025.
That is $2,178 a month against $1,161 rent: a $1,595 mortgage payment, plus $258 property tax and $325 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rockport
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$2,178
- Renting$1,161
- Mortgage only$1,595
Property tax · $258/mo 1.02% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Aransas County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $325/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 Rockport, Aransas County, Texas
Rockport is a city of 10,070 people in Aransas County. Half its households earn more than $72,174 a year and half less, against $69,466 across Aransas County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 71% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Aransas County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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. Rockport is a small coastal city in Aransas County whose residents skew older than in most places, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month; rain falls through the year in moderate amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banking, insurance and property. Among the largest workplaces in Rockport are Rockport-Fulton ISD, Walmart and H-E-B. Unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Commutes are fairly short, and many people work from home.
Things to do. Goose Island State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby outdoor places. A longer drive brings you to the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. Also a longer drive away, the USS Lexington is a museum, and it is the best known of the nearby places.
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- 5,692households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Aransas County had 6,201 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 79°. About 36 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rockport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rockport
- Rockport-fulton ISDSchool district439FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters252
- H-E-BRetail241
- Rockport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center89
- HMG HealthcareNursing homes62
- Bluebird Medical EnterprisesEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground49
- Builders FirstSourceOther building material dealers42
- Goodwill Industries of South TexasUsed merchandise stores22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 757 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of RockportRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rockport’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 Aransas County and the Rockport, TX metro.
Rockport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rockport$303,890
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Rockport listings, and the typical home goes pending in 85 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.
- Rockport20.47%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rockport85
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rockport642
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rockport81
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rockport$336,389
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Rockport93.66%
Zip codes with a Rockport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rockport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.