Star Harbor, Texas.
Typical home $424,952 (-2.8% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,181 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,378 -3%
- $437,329$424,952 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,842 +1%
- $419,110$424,952 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.
- Star Harbor$2,230
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Star Harbor, TX fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Star Harbor, Henderson County, Texas
Star Harbor is a city of 482 people in Henderson County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Star Harbor is a very small city in Henderson County, Texas, and most of its residents are older than in a typical American community. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than across the county, and few households live below the poverty line. Homes are valued well above what is typical for the country. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, peaking in August. Rain and melted snow are fairly plentiful through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Some work from home. Across Henderson County, some of the largest workplaces are Argon Medical Devices, Trinity Valley Community College and Athens ISD. Unemployment in the county is unchanged from a year ago, and the county has added jobs since the year before.
Things to do. Cedar Creek is a short drive away, and the rest of the nearby outdoors is a longer drive. Cedar Creek Reservoir is a large lake good for time on the water, and Purtis Creek State Park is a protected area for walking, camping and fishing. The East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 10%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 20,065 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Athens weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Argon Medical DevicesHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing552
- Trinity Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college537
- Athens ISDSchool district437FTE
- UT Heath AthensGeneral hospital411FTE
- Brownsboro ISDSchool district402FTE
- BiomericsCatheters manufacturing347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,132 people in all across the county; Star Harbor has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Star Harbor’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 Henderson County and the Athens, TX metro.
Star Harbor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Star Harbor$424,952
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Star Harbor16
Zip codes with a Star Harbor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Star Harbor — 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.