Bishop, Texas.
Typical home $134,963 (+3.1% in a year). Corpus Christi, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$186 (+36%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,045 +3%
- $130,918$134,963 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,999 -16%
- $159,961$134,963 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.
- Bishop$708
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bishop, TX rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bishop, Nueces County, Texas
Bishop is a city of 3,174 people in Nueces County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Nueces County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bishop is a small city in Nueces County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Poverty is more widespread here than in many places, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than across the country as a whole. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with the year's coldest days in January and the warmest in August, and a moderate amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, restaurants and hotels, and government. Across Nueces County, some of the largest workplaces are Corpus Christi ISD, Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi and Driscoll Children's Hospital. The trip to work is a fairly long one for many people, and very few work from home.
Things to do. For a game, Javelina Stadium and Nolan Ryan Field are both stadiums a short drive away. A longer drive leads to the USS Lexington, a museum, and the Texas State Aquarium, which is a zoo. The Nueces River is also a longer drive away for time by the water.
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- 1,132households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 25%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nueces County had 165,925 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 68° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 75°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bishop weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nueces County
- Corpus Christi ISDSchool district4,617FTE
- BayPetrochemical plant construction2,450
- Christus Spohn Hosp Corpus ChristiGeneral hospital2,266FTE
- Driscoll Children's HospitalChildren's hospital2,220FTE
- Texas A & M University-Corpus ChristiUniversity or college1,494
- Corpus Christi Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,453FTE
- Del Mar CollegeUniversity or college1,366
- Rally Credit UnionCredit unions807
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 272 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 38,209 people in all across the county; Bishop has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bishop’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Nueces County and the Corpus Christi, TX metro.
Bishop home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bishop$134,963
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bishop 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.
- Bishop19.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bishop21
Zip codes with a Bishop address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bishop — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.