Grape Creek, Texas.
Typical home $214,005 (-6.6% in a year). San Angelo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$428 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,198 -7%
- $229,203$214,005 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $17,091 -7%
- $231,096$214,005 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.
- Grape Creek$1,123
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Grape Creek, TX fell 6.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Grape Creek, Tom Green County, Texas
Grape Creek, in Tom Green County, had 3,594 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Tom Green County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tom Green County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grape Creek is a small community in Tom Green County, Texas, with a younger population than many towns its size, and homes that sit below what many buyers across the country would expect to pay. Winters are mild and short, with snow rare, while summers run very hot. Rain is light, as is common in this part of West Texas.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, or in professional and business services. Across Tom Green County, some of the largest workplaces are Shannon Medical Center, San Angelo ISD and Angelo State University. A typical commute is fairly long, and only a few people work from home.
Things to do. O.C. Fisher Reservoir and San Angelo State Park are both a short drive away, offering water and open protected land for getting outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Fort Concho, a historic fort, and the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, a museum.
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- 1,433households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Tom Green County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tom Green County had 49,935 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Water Valley weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tom Green County
- Shannon Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,905FTE
- San Angelo ISDSchool district1,788FTE
- Angelo State UniversityUniversity or college985
- Lone Star Beef ProcessorsBeef produced in slaughtering plants576
- Texas Leadership Public SchoolsSchool district469FTE
- H-E-BRetail368
- WW AFCO Steel-Hirschfeld Division San AngeloStructural steel, fabricated, manufacturing345
- H-E-BRetail314
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 87 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,769 people in all across the county; Grape Creek has one of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Grape Creek’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Tom Green County and the San Angelo, TX metro.
Grape Creek home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grape Creek$214,005
- 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.
- Grape Creek9
Zip codes with a Grape Creek address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grape Creek — 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.