Cotulla, Texas.
Typical home $116,242 (-9.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4 (+1%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $12,007 -9%
- $128,249$116,242 since Sep 2025
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.
- Cotulla$610
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cotulla, TX fell 9.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cotulla, La Salle County, Texas
Cotulla is a city of 3,718 people in La Salle County. Unemployment in La Salle County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in La Salle County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cotulla is a small city in La Salle County, in South Texas. Homes here cost far less than in most of the country, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still pleasant by most standards, while summers are very hot and August is the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in restaurants and hotels, or in shops. Cotulla ISD, Mars Dr Opco and PAY and Save are among the largest workplaces in town. Very few people work from home, and unemployment across La Salle County has eased a little over the past year as the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The Leona River is the one nearby place on the list, a river a longer drive away. Outdoor time here is best planned around the heat, since summer afternoons run very hot. The year brings only modest rain and melted snow, so most days suit being outside.
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- 983households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in La Salle County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. La Salle County had 3,240 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 67° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 100° and lows near 75°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cotulla La Salle County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cotulla
- Cotulla ISDSchool district294FTE
- Mars Dr OpcoSkilled nursing facilities67
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores34
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 101 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cotulla’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 La Salle County.
Cotulla home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cotulla$116,242
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cotulla11
Zip codes with a Cotulla address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cotulla — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.