Gardendale, Texas.
Typical home $411,643 (+2.5% in a year). Odessa, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$972 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,076 +3%
- $401,567$411,643 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,665 +14%
- $359,978$411,643 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.
- Gardendale$2,161
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Gardendale, TX rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gardendale, Ector County, Texas
Gardendale, in Ector County, had 2,020 people in the 2020 census. 95% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 5% are rented. Unemployment in Ector County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ector County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gardendale is a small community in Ector County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. The population is young for a town of its kind, and very few households fall below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what is typical elsewhere, and incomes sit comfortably above the county's.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Ector County, the largest workplaces include Ector County ISD, Saulsbury Industries and Medical Center Health System. Commutes run longer than many people expect, and very few residents work from home. Unemployment in the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For a short outing, the Presidential Museum and Leadership Library is a short drive away, and so is Ratliff Stadium, one of the local football grounds. A longer drive brings you to the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum, which looks at the region's oil history, and to the Globe of the Great Southwest, a theatre. Winters are cool and summers are hot, and the area is dry, with little rain or snow through the year.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Ector County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ector County had 80,449 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Odessa Schlemeyer Field weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ector County
- Ector County ISDSchool district3,938FTE
- Saulsbury IndustriesPipeline, gas and oil, construction2,069
- Medical Center Health SystemGeneral hospital1,587FTE
- Worley Field Services, Inc Stratos Permian DACRefinery, petroleum, construction1,240
- NexTier Completion SolutionsSupport activities for oil and gas operations1,046
- Odessa CollegeUniversity or college787
- The University of Texas Permian BasinUniversity or college720
- Sewell Family of CompaniesNew car dealers650
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 141 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,290 people in all across the county; Gardendale has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gardendale’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Ector County and the Odessa, TX metro.
Gardendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gardendale$411,643
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Gardendale 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gardendale19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Gardendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gardendale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.