China Spring, Texas.
Typical home $433,250 (+1.8% in a year). Waco, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,242 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,493 +2%
- $425,757$433,250 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,629 +20%
- $360,621$433,250 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.
- China Spring$2,274
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in China Spring, TX rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in China Spring, McLennan County, Texas
China Spring, in McLennan County, had 1,436 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in McLennan County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in McLennan County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. China Spring is a small community in McLennan County, with a population small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rarity, while summers turn very hot, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across McLennan County, some of the largest workplaces are Baylor University, Waco ISD and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center. Getting to work is quick for most people, and unemployment across the county sits close to where it was a year ago.
Things to do. Cameron Park is a park a short drive away, and Waco Lake is a reservoir that is also a short drive away. Waco Mammoth National Monument, a protected area, is a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Cameron Park Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 17 mintypical commute
What people in McLennan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLennan County had 122,992 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waco Regional Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLennan County
- Baylor UniversityUniversity or college4,153
- Waco ISDSchool district2,214FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,115
- Hillcrest Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,864FTE
- Texas State Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,716
- L3Harris AS IAS WacoAircraft conversions1,400
- Midway ISDSchool district1,263FTE
- Sanderson Farms Waco ProcessingPoultry processing1,164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 237 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,655 people in all across the county; China Spring has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in China Spring’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 McLennan County and the Waco, TX metro.
China Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- China Spring$433,250
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 China Spring 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.
- China Spring26.99%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- China Spring42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- China Spring8
Zip codes with a China Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls China Spring — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.