Alpine, Texas.
Typical home $236,011 (-1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,300 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$564 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,191 -2%
- $240,202$236,011 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,025 +4%
- $226,986$236,011 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.
- Alpine$1,239
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 89 years.
Typical home values in Alpine, TX fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alpine, Brewster County, Texas
Alpine is a city of 6,035 people in Brewster County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Brewster County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Brewster County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Alpine is a small city in Brewster County, in the high desert of far West Texas. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree, which is more than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are cool and summers hot, with very little snow and not much rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, and in government. Alpine ISD, Big Bend Regional MED CTR and UPS are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are short, and unemployment across Brewster County has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. Kokernot Field, a stadium, and the Museum of the Big Bend are both in or beside town. A longer drive away are Fort Davis National Historic Site, a protected area, and the Chinati Foundation, a museum.
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- 3,263households
- 45%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Brewster County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brewster County had 4,529 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 31°; warmest in June, with highs near 92° and lows near 63°. About 2 inches of snow and 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alpine weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Alpine
- Alpine ISDSchool district187FTE
- Big Bend Regional MED CTRCritical access hospital99FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 22 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alpine’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 Brewster County.
Alpine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alpine$236,011
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Alpine 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.
- Alpine14.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alpine101
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alpine14
Zip codes with a Alpine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alpine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.