Shiner, Texas.
Typical home $310,883 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$811 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $324 +0%
- $310,559$310,883 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,394 +9%
- $285,489$310,883 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.
- Shiner$1,632
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Shiner, TX rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shiner, Lavaca County, Texas
Shiner is a city of 2,127 people in Lavaca County. Half its households earn more than $99,299 a year and half less, against $63,240 across Lavaca County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Lavaca County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shiner is a small Texas city in Lavaca County, home to a community where most people own the houses they live in. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and a fair amount of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing close behind, followed by professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Shiner are Boedeker Companies, Shiner ISD and Shiner Nursing and Rehabilitation. The typical commute is a short one, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Peach Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Palmetto State Park, a protected area, and to Wonder Cave, a tourist attraction. Lake Wood is another lake within a longer drive.
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- 793households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lavaca County had 5,987 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yoakum weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shiner
- Boedeker CompaniesFoam, plastics, resins and shapes, merchant wholesalers171
- Shiner ISDSchool district94FTE
- Shiner Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 226 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shiner’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lavaca County.
Shiner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shiner$310,883
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Shiner 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.
- Shiner26.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shiner26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shiner5
Zip codes with a Shiner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shiner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.