Seabrook, Texas.
Typical home $348,578 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $1,686 (+2.6%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$857 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,720 +1%
- $343,858$348,578 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,858 +13%
- $309,720$348,578 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.
- Seabrook$1,830
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Seabrook, TX rose 1.4% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Seabrook, TX rose 2.6% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Seabrook runs $823/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $2,509 a month against $1,686 rent: a $1,830 mortgage payment, plus $306 property tax and $373 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Seabrook
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$2,509
- Renting$1,686
- Mortgage only$1,830
Property tax · $306/mo 1.05% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Chambers County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $373/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 Seabrook, Chambers County, Texas
Seabrook is a city of 13,618 people in Chambers County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Chambers County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Seabrook is a small city on the Texas Gulf Coast, with a population that skews older than the country as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of households rent, and the share of residents living in poverty is low. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Chambers County, the largest workplaces include Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region Operations, which fractionates natural gas liquids, Barbers Hill ISD, the school district, and Walmart, which runs a warehousing and storage operation. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the San Jacinto River and Clear Creek are both a short drive away. Space Center Houston, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer day out, Galveston Island has a beach, a longer drive away.
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- 5,981households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Chambers County had 23,244 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Nwso weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Chambers County
- Enterprise Products Operating LLC, Houston Region OperationsFractionating natural gas liquids1,243
- Barbers Hill ISDSchool district1,220FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,219
- Gulf Coast A CRH CompanyRoad construction630
- JSW Steel USAPlate, iron or steel, made in iron and steel mills598
- Targa DownstreamFractionating natural gas liquids493
- FlexSteelPipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing341
- S&B Engineers and ConstructorsPetrochemical plant construction330
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 73 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,115 people in all across the county; Seabrook has two of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seabrook’s census tracts, 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 Chambers County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Seabrook home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seabrook$348,578
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Seabrook listings, and the typical home goes pending in 59 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.
- Seabrook32.21%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seabrook95
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Seabrook16
Zip codes with a Seabrook address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seabrook — 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.