Sealy, Texas.
Typical home $383,680 (-0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,061 . Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$997 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,972 -1%
- $385,652$383,680 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,380 +15%
- $332,300$383,680 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.
- Sealy$2,014
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Sealy, TX fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sealy, Austin County, Texas
Sealy is a city of 6,839 people in Austin County. Half its households earn more than $56,514 a year and half less, against $75,789 across Austin County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Austin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sealy is a small city in Austin County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line here than a county-wide picture would suggest. Few adults have a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with a cool January and a long, hot summer that peaks in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Some of the largest workplaces in Sealy are Walmart, Sealy ISD and International Paper. Most people drive a fair distance to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Stephen F. Austin State Park and Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge are both protected areas a short drive away. San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, also a short drive off, is a place to learn about the area's early history. Mill Creek, a river nearby, is another option close to town.
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- 2,548households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Austin County had 13,541 jobs in 2025, 2.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sealy weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sealy
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,234
- Sealy ISDSchool district392FTE
- International PaperBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard113
- Hendrix IndustriesTable tops, marble, manufacturing67
- Eagle Lake Road OpcoSkilled nursing facilities52
- Koy ConcreteReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing51
- Sika Corporation SealyArchitectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing44
- Hub GroupSpecialized freight trucking, local20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,581 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of SealyRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of SealyRelatively 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 Sealy’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Austin County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Sealy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sealy$383,680
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sealy listings — 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.
- Sealy24.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sealy108
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sealy16
Zip codes with a Sealy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sealy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.