Grand Saline, Texas.
Typical home $232,646 (-1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$573 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,492 -2%
- $237,138$232,646 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,487 -3%
- $239,132$232,646 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.
- Grand Saline$1,221
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Grand Saline, TX fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grand Saline, Van Zandt County, Texas
Grand Saline is a city of 3,107 people in Van Zandt County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Van Zandt County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Van Zandt County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grand Saline is a small city in Van Zandt County in East Texas, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Typical home values sit in a middle range, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are cool and short, with snow a rare event, and summers run hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and retail. The largest workplaces in town include Grand Saline ISD, Brookshire's and the skilled nursing facility Avir at Bradburn. Commutes are a little longer than a quick trip across town, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Closest to town, a short drive away, are Lake Holbrook, a lake, and Plunk Lake, a small reservoir. A longer drive brings you to Lake Tawakoni State Park, a protected area beside the large Lake Tawakoni reservoir. The Sabine River is also within a longer drive for anyone who likes time by the water.
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- 1,173households
- 9%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Van Zandt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Zandt County had 12,908 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mineola weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grand Saline
- Grand Saline ISDSchool district196FTE
- VZ CR 1803 OpcoSkilled nursing facilities114
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers64
- Avir at BradburnSkilled nursing facilities57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 235 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grand Saline’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 Van Zandt County.
Grand Saline home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grand Saline$232,646
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Grand Saline 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.
- Grand Saline34.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grand Saline51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grand Saline9
Zip codes with a Grand Saline address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grand Saline — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.