Converse, Texas.
Typical home $238,890 (-4.3% in a year), asking rent $1,660 (-0.0%). San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$557 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,849 -4%
- $249,739$238,890 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $6,159 +3%
- $232,731$238,890 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.
- Converse$1,254
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Converse, TX fell 4.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Converse, TX fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Converse runs $194/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $478 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,854 a month against $1,660 rent: a $1,254 mortgage payment, plus $344 property tax and $256 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Converse
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,854
- Renting$1,660
- Mortgage only$1,254
Property tax · $344/mo 1.73% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Bexar County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $256/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Converse, Bexar County, Texas
Converse is a city of 27,466 people in Bexar County. Half its households earn more than $94,222 a year and half less, against $72,341 across Bexar County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Converse was 4.6% in August 2026, and Bexar County had 0.5% 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. Converse is a city in Bexar County, on the eastern side of the San Antonio area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. It is a fairly young place, with residents younger than in many American towns, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. In Converse itself, Walmart is among the largest workplaces, along with JDM Mechanical Installation, which installs conveyor systems, and Ingram Readymix, which makes and delivers ready-mix concrete. The commute is a fairly long one, and some people skip it by working from home.
Things to do. Toyota Field, a stadium, and the McNay Art Museum are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the San Antonio Zoo and to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, a protected area. Winters are mild, with cool January days, and summers turn very hot by August.
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- 10,288households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents 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 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Randolph Afb weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Converse
- JDM Mechanical InstallationConveyor system installation332
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores102
- Ingram ReadymixReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing80
- ConverseMail and parcel delivery51
- Power Engineering ServicesElectrical engineering services43
- San Antonio Masonry and Steel (SAM2)Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing42
- Esplanade Gardens26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 964 people in all. 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 high in parts of ConverseRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ConverseRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Converse’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 Bexar County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Converse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Converse$238,890
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Converse listings, and the typical home goes pending in 62 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Converse33.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Converse62
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Converse455
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Converse84
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Converse$221,163
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Converse97.17%
Zip codes with a Converse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Converse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.