West Orange, Texas.
Typical home $107,280 (-1.9% in a year). Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$129 (+30%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,055 -2%
- $109,335$107,280 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,372 -17%
- $129,652$107,280 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.
- West Orange$563
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in West Orange, TX fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Orange, Orange County, Texas
West Orange is a city of 3,459 people in Orange County. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 4.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Orange County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Orange is a small Texas city, and its residents are younger than in most of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below what many buyers elsewhere would expect. Poverty is more common here than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and shops. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are Cpchem Osbl, TIC - The Industrial Company and The Dow Chemical Company - Orange, Texas. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year, and nobody here works from home.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Stark Museum of Art is a museum, and Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center is a botanical garden. The Lutcher Theater, also close by, is a theatre. For a longer drive, Sabine Lake offers a lake setting, and Big Thicket National Preserve is a protected area of woods and wetland.
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- 1,392households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Orange County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 25,398 jobs in 2025, 4.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orange North weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- Cpchem OsblIndustrial building construction3,348
- TIC - The Industrial CompanyPetrochemical plant construction1,417
- The Dow Chemical Company - Orange, TexasBenzene made from refined petroleum or liquid hydrocarbons863
- ENT - Orange County Power Station 2x1, TPower plant construction837
- Vidor ISDSchool district699FTE
- STI GroupPetrochemical plant construction618
- Golden Triangle PolymersOther heavy and civil engineering construction600
- Little Cypress-mauriceville CisdSchool district520FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 62 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,621 people in all across the county; West Orange has one 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
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 in West Orange’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 Orange County and the Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX metro.
West Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Orange$107,280
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 West Orange listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- West Orange24.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Orange24
Zip codes with a West Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Orange — 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.