Balcones Heights, Texas.
Typical home $194,658 (-6.0% in a year), asking rent $645 . San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$467 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,335 -6%
- $206,992$194,658 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,857 +4%
- $186,801$194,658 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.
- Balcones Heights$1,022
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 84 years.
Typical home values in Balcones Heights, TX fell 6.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Balcones Heights, Bexar County, Texas
Balcones Heights is a city of 2,746 people in Bexar County. 14% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 86% are rented. Unemployment in Bexar County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bexar County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Balcones Heights is a small city inside the San Antonio area, where most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners, a much higher share of renters than is usual. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and homes are valued modestly. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are long and very hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Within the town itself, Methodist Hospital Texsan, Target and the Veterans Health Administration are among the largest workplaces. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly ordinary one.
Things to do. Denman Estate Park is in or beside town. A short drive away are the San Antonio Zoo, a zoo, and the San Antonio Botanical Garden. The San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away.
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- 1,428households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Bexar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bexar County had 937,109 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Antonio Incarnate Word weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Balcones Heights
- Methodist Hospital TexsanHospitals, general medical and surgical807
- TargetDiscount department stores176
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs78
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 983 people in all. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026). 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Balcones Heights’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Bexar County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Balcones Heights home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Balcones Heights$194,658
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Balcones Heights address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Balcones Heights — 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.