Blanco, Texas.
Typical home $543,774 (-2.5% in a year). San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,482 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,705 -2%
- $557,479$543,774 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,373 +7%
- $507,401$543,774 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.
- Blanco$2,854
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 50 years.
Typical home values in Blanco, TX fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Blanco, Blanco County, Texas
Blanco is a city of 1,682 people in Blanco County. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Blanco County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Blanco is a small Texas city where most homes are rented rather than lived in by their owners, a pattern that sets it apart from many towns of its size. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain. Typical home values are well above what many older homeowners might expect for a town this small.
Work. Residents work mostly in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Across Blanco County, the largest workplaces include Pedernales Electric Coop, Blanco ISD and Cox Paving of Texas. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. Blanco State Park sits in or beside town and is the easiest outing, set along the river. A longer drive brings you to Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, a protected area tied to the life of the former president. Pedernales Falls State Park is another protected area a longer drive away, and Hamilton Pool Preserve, also a longer drive, is a waterfall.
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- 896households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Blanco County had 4,106 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 35 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Blanco weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Blanco County
- Pedernales Electric CoopDistribution of electric power234
- Blanco ISDSchool district168FTE
- Johnson City ISDSchool district131FTE
- Pedernales Electric CoopDistribution of electric power123
- Pedernales Electric CoopDistribution of electric power68
- Cox Paving of TexasOverpass construction57
- Keystone ConstructionWater pumping or lift station construction46
- Real Ale Brewing CoBeverages, beer, ale, and malt liquors, manufacturing43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 571 people in all across the county; Blanco has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Blanco’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 Blanco County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Blanco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Blanco$543,774
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Blanco 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.
- Blanco18.70%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Blanco150
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Blanco16
Zip codes with a Blanco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Blanco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Blanco
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78606 | Blanco | 7,272 | — | $540,263 |
| 78623 | Fischer | 1,645 | — | $485,719 |