Simonton, Texas.
. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Simonton, Fort Bend County, Texas
Simonton is a city of 647 people in Fort Bend County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Fort Bend County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fort Bend County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Simonton is a very small city in Fort Bend County, Texas, where almost every home is lived in by its owner. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs that stay comfortable, while summers are hot, and July afternoons are the warmest of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops and manufacturing. Across Fort Bend County, the largest workplaces include Katy ISD, Fort Bend ISD and Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, and the county added jobs over the past year. Commutes are long, and a good number of residents work from home.
Things to do. Stephen F. Austin State Park is a protected area along the river, and San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site is another, tied to the early history of Texas; both are a longer drive away. The Rosenberg Railroad Museum is also a longer drive away and suits an afternoon indoors.
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- 41 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What people in Fort Bend County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fort Bend County had 260,929 jobs in 2025, 3.8% 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, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fort Bend County
- Katy ISDSchool district12,969FTE
- Fort Bend ISDSchool district10,195FTE
- Lamar CisdSchool district4,802FTE
- IES ResidentialElectrical contractors3,374
- Methodist Sugar Land HospitalGeneral hospital2,455FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,434
- Memorial Hermann KatyGeneral hospital1,505FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,309
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 369 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 64,622 people in all across the county; Simonton 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Simonton’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 Fort Bend County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Simonton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Simonton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Simonton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.