Votaw, Texas.
Typical home $160,333 (+5.4% in a year). Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$303 (+56%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,286 +5%
- $152,047$160,333 since Sep 2025
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.
- Votaw$842
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Votaw, TX rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Votaw, Hardin County, Texas
The Census does not count Votaw on its own, so the figures here are Hardin County's. Half the county's households earn more than $75,808 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 82% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 18% 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 people in Hardin County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Votaw is a small community in Hardin County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. The figures here are the county's, since the Census does not count the town on its own. Winters are mild, summers are hot, snow is rare, and rain falls heavily across the year.
Work. Schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, retail, and the building trades employ many of the county's residents. Unemployment across Hardin County is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has held roughly steady. Fewer adults hold a college degree than in much of the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Beef Head Creek is a river a short drive away, suited to a quick outing. A longer drive reaches the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge and Lake Livingston State Park, both protected areas. The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 22,222households
- 39.4median age
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Hardin County 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 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 57 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wildwood weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hardin County
- Lumberton ISDSchool district574FTE
- Silsbee ISDSchool district421FTE
- Hardin-jefferson ISDSchool district373FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters312
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Wooden PalletsPallet parts, wood, manufacturing275
- Triple "S" IndustrialCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction255
- Kountze ISDSchool district214FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 26 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,608 people in all. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hardin County, 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 Hardin County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
Votaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Votaw$160,333
- 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.
Zip codes with a Votaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Votaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.