Grapeland, Texas.
Typical home $231,190 (+1.1% in a year). Palestine, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$501 (+70%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,606 +1%
- $228,584$231,190 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,823 -10%
- $256,013$231,190 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.
- Grapeland$1,213
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Grapeland, TX rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas
Grapeland is a city of 1,465 people in Houston County. Unemployment in Houston County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Houston 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Grapeland is a small East Texas city in Houston County, quiet in the way small towns tend to be. Homes here are valued below the typical figure for the country, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole. Winters are mild, with cool nights in January, and summers run hot, peaking in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing and government. Across Houston County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Vulcraft Group Grapeland Division, Crockett ISD and Walmart. Few people work from home, and the county's jobs grew only slightly last year, while unemployment there has eased a little from a year ago.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Mission Tejas State Park and Davy Crockett National Forest are both protected areas a longer drive away, good for walking, camping and woodland scenery. The Museum for East Texas Culture, also a longer drive away, is a museum for those who like local history. Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, another museum-style stop a longer drive off, covers the area's Native American past.
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- 664households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Houston County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Houston County had 7,667 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 47 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crockett weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Houston County
- Nucor Vulcraft Group Grapeland DivisionFabricated bar joists manufacturing461
- Crockett ISDSchool district191FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters181
- Grapeland ISDSchool district131FTE
- Animal Comfort GroupLumber merchant wholesalers98
- Lovelady ISDSchool district89FTE
- Latexo ISDSchool district88FTE
- H-E-BRetail81
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,358 people in all across the county; Grapeland has one of its own. 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
- LightningVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Grapeland’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 Houston County and the Palestine, TX metro.
Grapeland home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Grapeland$231,190
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Grapeland listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Grapeland15.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Grapeland65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Grapeland7
Zip codes with a Grapeland address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Grapeland — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.