Gladewater, Texas.
Typical home $169,522 (-0.0% in a year), asking rent $993 . Longview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$415 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $83 -0%
- $169,605$169,522 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $28,278 +20%
- $141,244$169,522 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.
- Gladewater$890
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Gladewater, TX fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas
Gladewater is a city of 6,134 people in Gregg County. Half its households earn more than $58,810 a year and half less, against $66,550 across Gregg County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Gregg County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gladewater is a small East Texas city with a younger population than many towns its size. Incomes here run below the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the town. Winters are mild and short, with snow a rare event, while summers are long and hot, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in manufacturing, with transport, warehouses and utilities close behind. Gladewater ISD is the largest workplace in town, and the nursing and assisted-living facilities, such as Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Gladewater, and the local Brookshire's grocery store are also among the biggest employers. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in much of the country, and most people commute by car, with only a few working from home.
Things to do. Big Sandy Creek, a river a short drive away, is the closest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, Tyler State Park is a protected area for walking and time among the pines, and Lake O' the Pines is a large reservoir for boating and fishing. All of these take a longer drive from town.
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- 2,127households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gregg County had 75,602 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more 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 96° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longview #2 weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gladewater
- Gladewater ISDSchool district313FTE
- Legend Oaks Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center GladewaterSkilled nursing facilities111
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers70
- Vital Earth ResourcesPotting soil manufacturing55
- GladewaterMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 261 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gladewater’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 Gregg County and the Longview, TX metro.
Gladewater home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gladewater$169,522
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Gladewater 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.
- Gladewater26.53%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Gladewater58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gladewater13
Zip codes with a Gladewater address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gladewater — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.