Gilchrist, Texas.
Typical home $389,529 (-8.6% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$880 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $36,449 -9%
- $425,979$389,529 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,064 +3%
- $378,466$389,529 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.
- Gilchrist$2,045
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Gilchrist, TX fell 8.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gilchrist, Galveston County, Texas
The Census does not count Gilchrist on its own, so the figures here are Galveston County's. Half the county's households earn more than $86,105 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Galveston County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Galveston County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gilchrist is a small town in Galveston County, on the Texas Gulf Coast. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and winters are mild, with little or no snow. Summers are hot, and rain falls often enough to keep the land green most of the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, manufacturing, or retail shops. Across the county, jobs have grown over the past year and the unemployment rate has held steady. Commuting is a regular part of life for many people, since most jobs are spread around the wider county.
Things to do. The Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away, and Oyster Bayou, a river, is also close by. For a museum visit, the USS Cavalla is a longer drive away.
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- 140,660households
- 38.8median age
- 35%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Galveston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Galveston County had 126,458 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anahuac weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Galveston County
- THE University of Texas Medical BRGeneral hospital5,676FTE
- Clear Creek ISDSchool district5,086FTE
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonUniversity or college2,498
- Dickinson ISDSchool district1,848FTE
- Texas City ISDSchool district1,316FTE
- Galveston ISDSchool district1,079FTE
- Schlitterbahn Galveston IslandWater parks, amusement899
- Friendswood ISDSchool district767FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 150 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,249 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Galveston County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Galveston County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Gilchrist home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gilchrist$389,529
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Gilchrist 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.
- Gilchrist14.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gilchrist63
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gilchrist10
Zip codes with a Gilchrist address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gilchrist — 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.