Gholson, Texas.
Typical home $269,565 (-2.5% in a year). Waco, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $165 (-10%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $6,880 -2%
- $276,445$269,565 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.
- Gholson$1,415
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Gholson, TX fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gholson, McLennan County, Texas
Gholson is a city of 1,250 people in McLennan County. Half its households earn more than $77,500 a year and half less, against $66,643 across McLennan County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in McLennan County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in construction, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gholson is a small city in McLennan County, close enough to Waco to share its roads and its working life. Household incomes here run higher than across the county, and a smaller share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place this size. Winters are mild and short, with snow a rare event, while summers turn hot, with August the warmest month and rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in the building trades, in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in manufacturing. Across McLennan County, some of the largest workplaces are Baylor University, Waco ISD and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center. Few adults hold a four-year degree, many people drive a fair way to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Bosque River is a short drive away, as is Cameron Park, a park on the Waco side of the county. History is close at hand too, at Waco Mammoth National Monument, a protected area a short drive from town. A longer drive brings you to Cameron Park Zoo.
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- 444households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLennan County had 122,992 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waco Regional Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLennan County
- Baylor UniversityUniversity or college4,153
- Waco ISDSchool district2,214FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,115
- Hillcrest Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,864FTE
- Texas State Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,716
- L3Harris AS IAS WacoAircraft conversions1,400
- Midway ISDSchool district1,263FTE
- Sanderson Farms Waco ProcessingPoultry processing1,164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 237 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,655 people in all across the county; Gholson has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gholson’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 McLennan County and the Waco, TX metro.
Gholson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gholson$269,565
- 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.
- Gholson7
Zip codes with a Gholson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gholson — 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.