Alice, Texas.
Typical home $131,207 (-10.1% in a year). Alice, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$62 (+10%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,698 -10%
- $145,905$131,207 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $29,819 -19%
- $161,027$131,207 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.
- Alice$689
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Alice, TX fell 10.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alice, Jim Wells County, Texas
Alice is a city of 17,891 people in Jim Wells County. Half its households earn more than $48,676 a year and half less, against $51,896 across Jim Wells County; 31% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Jim Wells County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alice is a city and the center of Jim Wells County in South Texas, home to a fairly young population compared with many American towns. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than in most places. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in farming, forestry and mining. Among the largest workplaces in Alice are H-E-B, Walmart and Fesco, which provides contract services for oil and gas fields. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year, with unemployment a little higher than a year earlier.
Things to do. Lake Findley, a lake in or beside town, and Memorial Stadium, a stadium also close by, are the nearest places to head out to. A longer drive brings you to Lake Corpus Christi State Park, a protected area on the shores of a reservoir. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a moderate amount of rain through the year.
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- 6,100households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 31%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jim Wells County had 14,627 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 68° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 27 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alice weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alice
- H-E-BRetail278
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters261
- FescoContract services for oil and gas fields255
- AliceMail and parcel delivery45
- Brite Star ServicesIndustrial launderers33
- Sutherland Building Material CompanyHome centers, building materials32
- American Electric Power25
- Goodwill Industries of South TexasUsed merchandise stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 952 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsrelatively high in parts of AliceRelatively moderate
- Hailrelatively high in parts of AliceRelatively moderate
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of AliceRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alice’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Jim Wells County and the Alice, TX metro.
Alice home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alice$131,207
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Alice listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Alice16.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alice103
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alice14
Zip codes with a Alice address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alice — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.