Silsbee, Texas.
Typical home $174,737 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,350 . Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$313 (+52%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,638 +3%
- $170,098$174,737 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,256 -2%
- $177,993$174,737 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.
- Silsbee$917
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Silsbee, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Silsbee, Hardin County, Texas
Silsbee is a city of 6,935 people in Hardin County. Half its households earn more than $59,907 a year and half less, against $75,808 across Hardin County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Hardin County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Silsbee is a small city in Hardin County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's as a whole, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many places. Winters are mild and snow is rare, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Silsbee are Walmart, Brookshire Brothers and Entergy. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Village Creek State Park and Village Creek itself are a short drive away, a protected area and a river for walking, paddling and time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Big Thicket National Preserve, a large protected area of woods and waterways. Beech Creek is another river close by.
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- 2,610households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hardin County had 12,194 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 63 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lumberton weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Silsbee
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Mill Creek623110 nursing care facilities75
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores62
- SilsbeeMail and parcel delivery33
- EntergyDistribution of electric power20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 480 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Silsbee’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 Hardin County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Silsbee home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Silsbee$174,737
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Silsbee 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.
- Silsbee18.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Silsbee68
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Silsbee16
Zip codes with a Silsbee address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Silsbee — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.