Sabine Pass, Texas.
. Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Sabine Pass, Jefferson County, Texas
The Census does not count Sabine Pass on its own, so the figures here are Jefferson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,026 a year and half less; 20% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 62% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Jefferson County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Jefferson County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sabine Pass is a small town on the Texas coast, at the edge of Sabine Lake and close to the Louisiana border. Most of its figures are drawn from Jefferson County as a whole, since the Census does not count the town on its own. In the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes are lower than the national middle. A larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, building trades, manufacturing and retail shops are the main kinds of work people in the county do. Unemployment in the county has edged up over the past year, and the number of jobs has held steady from one year to the next. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and commutes are shorter than most, while few people work from home.
Things to do. Sea Rim State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and Fort Manhassett, a fort, is also a short drive off. Sabine Lake, a lake, lies a longer drive away. Summers are hot and winters are mild compared with the north, and the area gets a good deal of rain across the year.
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- 94,807households
- 37.0median age
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Jefferson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jefferson County had 124,810 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 74°. About 62 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Port Arthur Southeast Tx Airport weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jefferson County
- Port Arthur Liquefaction ProjectIndustrial building construction5,809
- McDermott International- CCZJV ProjectNatural gas processing plant construction5,300
- Beaumont ISDSchool district2,342FTE
- Christus HospitalGeneral hospital1,653FTE
- Baptist Beaumont HospitalGeneral hospital1,536FTE
- Lamar UniversityUniversity or college1,461
- Port Arthur ISDSchool district1,303FTE
- Coburn Supply CoFittings and valves, plumbers', merchant wholesalers1,190
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 262 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 49,338 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Jefferson County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Jefferson County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Sabine Pass home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
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 Sabine Pass address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sabine Pass — 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.