A typical Bayside home is worth roughly $172,000
Builders were permitted 4 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Bayside?
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What it takes to buy in Bayside
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That covers a typical Bayside home, with $108K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,460 a month here, $340 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Texas typical property tax (1.49% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
1 of Bayside’s houses are on the National Register
Half of Bayside’s homes were built before 1985.
Texas: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,460
Renters already here pay a median of $1,875.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Refugio County, TX): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
4 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 4 new homes in Bayside in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $1.1 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Bayside has permitted 37 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Bayside's population fell by 50 even though 29 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. 22% of Bayside's homes are seasonal or vacation homes, which adds housing without adding residents. Across Texas: 2.6 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $402,000 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $402,000 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $831,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $39,000 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $265,000 |
| 2020 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $284,000 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $812,000 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $781,000 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $185,000 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $154,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $647,000 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $193,000 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $545,000 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $210,000 |
| 2009 | 7 | 7 | 0 | $884,000 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $40,000 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $145,000 |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $438,000 |
| 2005 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| 2004 | 6 | 6 | 0 | $786,000 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $260,000 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $122,000 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $100,000 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Historic houses: National Register of Historic Places. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.