Seadrift, Texas.
Typical home $201,639 (+1.7% in a year). Port Lavaca, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$457 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,391 +2%
- $198,248$201,639 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,407 +3%
- $195,232$201,639 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.
- Seadrift$1,058
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Seadrift, TX rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seadrift, Calhoun County, Texas
Seadrift is a city of 995 people in Calhoun County. Unemployment in Calhoun County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 7.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calhoun County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seadrift is a very small Texas city on the Gulf coast side of Calhoun County, where a quiet, close-knit way of life is the norm. Typical home values here are modest, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, peaking in August. Rain is steady through the year.
Work. Residents of Seadrift work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Calhoun County, some of the largest workplaces are Formosa Plastics Corporation, Texas, Dow Chemical and Calhoun County ISD. Jobs across the county were fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Guadalupe River is a short drive away. Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and Goose Island State Park are both protected areas, and each is a longer drive away. Green Lake, also a longer drive, offers another place to get out on the water.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Calhoun County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calhoun County had 13,054 jobs in 2025, 7.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 76°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Austwell weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calhoun County
- Formosa Plastics Corporation, TexasResins, plastics, manufacturing2,811
- Dow ChemicalOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing851
- Calhoun County ISDSchool district564FTE
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const253
- BrandSafway LLC - Dow Chemicals - SeadriftSpecialty trade contractor227
- Memorial Medical CenterCritical access hospital218FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters217
- Leverage Mechanical ServicesIndustrial equipment and machinery repair and maintenance services185
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,894 people in all across the county; Seadrift has none of its own. School districts come 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seadrift’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 Calhoun County and the Port Lavaca, TX metro.
Seadrift home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seadrift$201,639
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 9 Seadrift listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Seadrift10.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Seadrift44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Seadrift5
Zip codes with a Seadrift address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seadrift — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.