Texas · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate in Texas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 188,500 people in Texas across roughly 37,964 establishments, with average annual pay of $85,510.
Employment in Real Estate in Texas grew 17.2% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 188,500. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 188,500Employment, 2025
- 37,964Establishments
- $85,510Avg. annual pay
- 1.3%Share of Texas jobs
- 1.12Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 114,400; 2005 116,500; 2006 118,700; 2007 122,700; 2008 125,200; 2009 122,000; 2010 121,300; 2011 123,100; 2012 125,800; 2013 130,800; 2014 135,400; 2015 139,700; 2016 144,400; 2017 151,200; 2018 155,500; 2019 160,700; 2020 160,800; 2021 168,500; 2022 179,100; 2023 182,300; 2024 184,200; 2025 188,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 188,487 | 37,964 | $85,509 | 2.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 184,181 | 37,118 | $81,610 | 1.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 182,319 | 35,911 | $79,739 | 1.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 179,126 | 34,633 | $80,409 | 6.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 168,499 | 31,979 | $73,811 | 4.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 160,833 | 29,664 | $68,414 | 0.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 160,716 | 28,279 | $65,940 | 3.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 155,452 | 27,007 | $62,992 | 2.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 151,195 | 25,630 | $61,015 | 4.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 144,427 | 24,368 | $59,360 | 3.4% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Real Estate in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
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