Doss, Texas.
Typical home $698,932 (-2.2% in a year). Fredericksburg, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$81 (+2%) since Oct 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $15,793 -2%
- $714,725$698,932 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.
- Doss$3,669
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Doss, TX fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Doss, Gillespie County, Texas
The Census does not count Doss on its own, so the figures here are Gillespie County's. Half the county's households earn more than $76,162 a year and half less; 9% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Gillespie County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gillespie County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Doss lies in Gillespie County in the Texas Hill Country, where rolling land and open ground shape daily life. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values run well above the typical American price. The population skews older, the winters are mild with little snow, and the summers are hot, with rain falling through much of the year.
Work. Across Gillespie County, residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Job numbers edged up over the past year, and unemployment is about the same as it was a year ago. Many people drive to work, and the trip is shorter than the national average, while relatively few work from home.
Things to do. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, a protected area a longer drive away, is the best known place on the nearby list and is known for its large granite dome. Fort Martin Scott, a fort, and the National Museum of the Pacific War, a museum, are also a longer drive away.
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- 11,513households
- 50.7median age
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Gillespie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gillespie County had 12,576 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 28 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Harper 3ENE weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gillespie County
- Samsung Austin Semiconductor LLC (Taylor)Semiconductor devices manufacturing767
- Fredericksburg ISDSchool district462FTE
- H-E-BRetail336
- Hill Country Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital247FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters213
- Eilers Steel ErectionIron work, structural, contractors170
- Central Texas Electric Co-op - 1 (2)Distribution of electric power94
- Harper ISDSchool district89FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,191 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Gillespie County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Gillespie County and the Fredericksburg, TX metro.
Doss home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Doss$698,932
- 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.
- Doss6
Zip codes with a Doss address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Doss — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.