Garrison, Texas.
Typical home $230,559 (+5.5% in a year). Nacogdoches, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$586 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,952 +5%
- $218,607$230,559 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,375 +15%
- $200,184$230,559 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.
- Garrison$1,210
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Garrison, TX rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Garrison, Nacogdoches County, Texas
Garrison is a city of 789 people in Nacogdoches County. Unemployment in Nacogdoches County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nacogdoches County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Garrison is a very small city in Nacogdoches County in East Texas, home to far fewer people than most American towns. Homes here are valued below what a typical American home costs, and the share of residents living below the poverty line is higher than in the country as a whole. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain across the year.
Work. Residents of Garrison work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and some people work from home. Across Nacogdoches County, the largest workplaces include the Pilgrims Nacogdoches Complex, a poultry processing plant, as well as Stephen F Austin State University and Nacogdoches ISD. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Several places in the Nacogdoches area are a longer drive from Garrison. Homer Bryce Stadium is a stadium for games, and Mast Arboretum is a botanical garden for a quiet walk among plantings. The Old Stone Fort Museum is a museum, and Attoyac Bayou is a river for anyone who likes to be near the water.
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- 16%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Nacogdoches County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nacogdoches County had 22,515 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Nacogdoches weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nacogdoches County
- Pilgrims Nacogdoches ComplexChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,561
- Stephen F Austin State UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Nacogdoches ISDSchool district1,043FTE
- EatonElectrical transformer manufacturing409
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Nacogdoches Medical CenterGeneral hospital341FTE
- Nacogdoches Memorial HospGeneral hospital331FTE
- TFP NutritionComplete feed, livestock, manufacturing241
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,787 people in all across the county; Garrison has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Garrison’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 Nacogdoches County and the Nacogdoches, TX metro.
Garrison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Garrison$230,559
- 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.
- Garrison13
Zip codes with a Garrison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Garrison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.