Castroville, Texas.
Typical home $426,044 (-1.9% in a year), asking rent $1,531 . San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,066 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,226 -2%
- $434,270$426,044 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,782 +10%
- $387,261$426,044 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.
- Castroville$2,236
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Castroville, TX fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Castroville, Medina County, Texas
Castroville is a city of 2,954 people in Medina County. Half its households earn more than $78,460 a year and half less, against $78,074 across Medina County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Medina County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Castroville is a small city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run close to the county's, with fewer people living below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain falls in modest amounts through the year, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, professional and business services, and the building trades also employing many. Across Medina County, the largest workplaces include Medina Valley ISD, Medina Regional Hospital and Walmart. The usual trip to work is a fairly long one, and a fair number of people work from home. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Landmark Inn State Historic Site, a protected area, is in or beside town. A longer drive away are Medina Lake, a reservoir, and the San Antonio Zoo. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,211households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Medina County had 11,400 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 30 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lytle 3W weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Medina County
- Medina Valley ISDSchool district1,063FTE
- Microsoft SAT 80Electrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors284
- Devine ISDSchool district280FTE
- Hondo ISDSchool district275FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Medina Regional HospitalCritical access hospital211FTE
- Natalia ISDSchool district210FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters206
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,661 people in all across the county; Castroville has none of its own. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Castroville’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 Medina County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Castroville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Castroville$426,044
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Castroville 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.
- Castroville28.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Castroville80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Castroville10
Zip codes with a Castroville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Castroville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.