Rosenberg, Texas.
Typical home $310,616 (-2.2% in a year), asking rent $1,793 (-1.1%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$790 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,097 -2%
- $317,713$310,616 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,265 +12%
- $277,351$310,616 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.
- Rosenberg$1,630
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Rosenberg, TX fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rosenberg, TX fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rosenberg runs $652/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $821 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,444 a month against $1,793 rent: a $1,630 mortgage payment, plus $481 property tax and $333 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rosenberg
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$2,444
- Renting$1,793
- Mortgage only$1,630
Property tax · $481/mo 1.86% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fort Bend County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $333/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 Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, Texas
Rosenberg is a city of 38,282 people in Fort Bend County. Half its households earn more than $65,668 a year and half less, against $114,041 across Fort Bend County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Rosenberg was 4.8% in August 2026, and Fort Bend County had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Rosenberg is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Incomes here run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect, though about as many homes are owner-occupied as rented. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers get hot, especially in August. Rain falls through the year in good measure.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Rosenberg are the Lamar Consolidated school district, a warehousing and distribution center, and Benedettini Cabinets. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment is about where it stood a year ago, and Fort Bend County has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. In town, the Rosenberg Railroad Museum is a local stop for anyone interested in the area's history. A longer drive away are the Houston Zoo and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, along with Brazos Bend State Park, a protected area for those who prefer to be outdoors.
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- 15,140households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fort Bend County had 260,929 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 76°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sugar Land weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rosenberg
- Lamar CisdSchool district4,802FTE
- DC16 DC16 RosenbergGeneral warehousing and storage538
- Benedettini CabinetsCabinets, kitchen, stock or custom wood, manufacturing335
- SI EnvironmentalCollection, treatment, and disposal of waste through a sewer system334
- TargetDiscount department stores148
- CenterPoint Energy - Ft BendElectric services128
- Builders FirstSourceOther building material dealers106
- Bodega LatinaSupermarkets and other grocery retailers except convenience retailers103
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,149 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of RosenbergRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rosenberg’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 Fort Bend County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Rosenberg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rosenberg$310,616
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Rosenberg listings, and the typical home goes pending in 52 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.
- Rosenberg30.41%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rosenberg52
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rosenberg306
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rosenberg56
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rosenberg$311,620
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Rosenberg97.35%
Zip codes with a Rosenberg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rosenberg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Rosenberg
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77469 | Richmond | 69,826 | $1,994 | $337,049 |
| 77471 | Rosenberg | 45,325 | $1,612 | $277,964 |