Sweeny, Texas.
Typical home $239,211 (+0.7% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$558 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,582 +1%
- $237,629$239,211 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,142 +9%
- $219,069$239,211 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.
- Sweeny$1,256
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 39 years.
Typical home values in Sweeny, TX rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sweeny, Brazoria County, Texas
Sweeny is a city of 3,626 people in Brazoria County. Unemployment in Brazoria County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sweeny is a small city in Brazoria County, on the flat Gulf Coast plain of Texas. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and daytime highs that stay pleasant, while summers are hot, with August the warmest. Rain is steady through the year, and the town gets a good deal more of it than much of the country. Homes in town cost less than is typical for the wider area, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mainly in manufacturing, retail shops, the building trades, and the schools, hospitals and social care. Across Brazoria County, the largest workplaces include Dow, a chemical manufacturer, and Alvin ISD, a school district. Unemployment across the county is the same as it was a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Varner–Hogg Plantation State Historical Site is a protected historic area a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Brazos Bend State Park, a protected area for walking and watching wildlife, and to the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area. The Brazos River is also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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- 1,424households
- 3%below the poverty line
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazoria County had 124,808 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 75°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Angleton Brazoria Airport weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brazoria County
- DowAcyclic hydrocarbons made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons3,844
- Alvin ISDSchool district3,824FTE
- Pearland ISDSchool district2,554FTE
- Brazosport ISDSchool district1,833FTE
- OlinAlkalies manufacturing1,019
- Angleton ISDSchool district1,011FTE
- Marquis Industrial ServicesScaffold erecting and dismantling997
- BasfOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing991
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 209 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,438 people in all across the county; Sweeny has two of its own. 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Sweeny’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Brazoria County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Sweeny home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sweeny$239,211
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Sweeny 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.
- Sweeny24.31%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sweeny50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sweeny8
Zip codes with a Sweeny address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sweeny — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.