Ganado, Texas.
Typical home $245,241 (-1.2% in a year). El Campo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$490 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,898 -1%
- $248,140$245,241 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $31,271 -11%
- $276,513$245,241 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.
- Ganado$1,287
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ganado, TX fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ganado, Jackson County, Texas
Ganado is a city of 1,975 people in Jackson County. Unemployment in Jackson County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 4.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jackson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ganado is a small city in Jackson County, small enough that neighbors tend to know one another. Homes here are typically valued well below what you would pay in much of the country, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with the warmest weather in August and rain far more common than snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and farming, forestry and mining also providing many jobs. Across Jackson County, some of the largest workplaces are Edna ISD, Jackson County Hospital and Ganado ISD. The county has seen fewer jobs than the year before, and a share of residents work from home.
Things to do. Sandy Creek runs in or beside town, a small river close to home. A short drive away are Lake Texana, a lake good for time on the water, and the Brackenridge Recreation Complex, a protected area for getting outdoors. Farther afield, the Lavaca River and the Navidad River are both a longer drive away.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
What people in Jackson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jackson County had 5,356 jobs in 2025, 4.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Danevang West weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jackson County
- Edna ISDSchool district237FTE
- Industrial ISDSchool district181FTE
- Jackson County HospitalCritical access hospital165FTE
- Ganado ISDSchool district102FTE
- Southbrooke Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center97
- Lester ContractingExcavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors90
- H-E-BRetail79
- Ganado Nursing and RehabilitationNursing homes63
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 682 people in all across the county; Ganado has two 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
- HurricanesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ganado’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Jackson County and the El Campo, TX metro.
Ganado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ganado$245,241
- 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.
- Ganado15
Zip codes with a Ganado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ganado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.