Goliad, Texas.
Typical home $251,431 (+3.7% in a year). Victoria, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$493 (+60%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,986 +4%
- $242,446$251,431 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,637 +2%
- $246,795$251,431 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.
- Goliad$1,320
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Goliad, TX rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Goliad, Goliad County, Texas
Goliad is a city of 1,620 people in Goliad County. Unemployment in Goliad County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Goliad is a small Texas city and the seat of Goliad County, with a long history that shows in its public sites and in the way the town is laid out. Incomes in the county sit below the typical American household's, and a good many residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and few people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in farming, forestry and mining, and in manufacturing. Goliad ISD, Goliad I Enterprises, which runs nursing homes, and PAY and Save, a grocery store, are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Goliad County is a little higher than a year earlier, though the county has added a few more jobs over the past year.
Things to do. History is the main draw. Presidio La Bahía, a museum, and Goliad State Park and Historic Site are both in or beside town, as is the Zaragoza Birthplace State Historic Site. Fannin Battleground State Historic Site, an archaeological site, is a short drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow and summers run hot, so spring and autumn are easy seasons for walking the grounds.
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- 688households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Goliad County had 1,392 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 37 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Goliad weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Goliad
- Goliad ISDSchool district227FTE
- Goliad I EnterprisesNursing homes25
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 45 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
- HurricanesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Goliad’s census tracts, 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 Goliad County and the Victoria, TX metro.
Goliad home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Goliad$251,431
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 11 Goliad listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Goliad9.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Goliad30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Goliad5
Zip codes with a Goliad address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Goliad — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.