Webster, Texas.
Typical home $303,267 (-2.6% in a year), asking rent $1,337 (-0.8%). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$631 (+66%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,209 -3%
- $311,476$303,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,158 -2%
- $309,426$303,267 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.
- Webster$1,592
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Webster, TX fell 2.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Webster, TX fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Webster runs $990/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,566 in May 2024.
That is $2,327 a month against $1,337 rent: a $1,592 mortgage payment, plus $410 property tax and $325 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Webster
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,327
- Renting$1,337
- Mortgage only$1,592
Property tax · $410/mo 1.62% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Harris County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $325/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Webster, Harris County, Texas
Webster is a city of 12,499 people in Harris County. Half its households earn more than $61,264 a year and half less, against $74,983 across Harris County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 22% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 78% are rented. Unemployment in Harris County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Webster is a city in Harris County, in the Houston area, and it is a place where most households rent rather than own, far more so than across the county. Residents are younger than in many American towns, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Webster are CLS Health, Bay Area Rehab Hospital and Axiom Space, which builds space vehicles. A four-year degree is common among adults here, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Space Center Houston, a museum, is in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Galveston Island, with its beaches, and to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, one of the best known museums in the area. Sports fans can also drive to Daikin Park, a stadium.
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- 5,991households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Harris County had 2,458,604 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 76°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Houston Nwso weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Webster
- ABC Professional Tree ServicesTree and brush trimming, overhead utility line1,561
- CLS HealthPhysicians' offices613
- Bay Area Rehab HospitalRehabilitation hospital444FTE
- Webster Surgical Specialty HospitalGeneral hospital303FTE
- Axiom SpaceGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing300
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer253
- American Furniture Warehouse198
- Kindred Hospital Clear LakeLong-term care hospital165FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,955 people in all. Hospitals come 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Webster’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 Harris County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Webster home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Webster$303,267
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Webster 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.
- Webster27.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Webster50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Webster12
Zip codes with a Webster address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Webster — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.