Shoreacres, Texas.
Typical home $293,924 (+1.2% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$715 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,584 +1%
- $290,340$293,924 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,960 +10%
- $267,964$293,924 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.
- Shoreacres$1,543
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Shoreacres, TX rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Shoreacres, Harris County, Texas
Shoreacres is a city of 1,566 people in Harris County. Half its households earn more than $130,815 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Harris County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shoreacres is a small city in Harris County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run well above the county's, and far fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in professional and business services. Across Harris County, some of the largest workplaces are Houston ISD, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children's Hospital. A typical commute is a moderate one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. The San Jacinto River is a short drive away, and Space Center Houston, a museum, is also close by. For a longer outing, Galveston Island is a beach within a longer drive, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is another longer drive away.
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- 609households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 2,458,604 jobs in 2025, 0.5% 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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Harris County
- Houston ISDSchool district26,065FTE
- UT MD Anderson Cancer CenterGeneral hospital23,843FTE
- Cypress-fairbanks ISDSchool district16,333FTE
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonUniversity or college12,857
- Texas Children's HospitalChildren's hospital12,133FTE
- Baylor College of MedicineUniversity or college9,951
- Harris Health SystemGeneral hospital9,618FTE
- Aldine ISDSchool district9,207FTE
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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shoreacres’ 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 Harris County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Shoreacres home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shoreacres$293,924
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Shoreacres 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.
- Shoreacres35.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shoreacres23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shoreacres5
Zip codes with a Shoreacres address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shoreacres — 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.