Gustine, Texas.
Typical home $283,158 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$865 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,693 +4%
- $271,465$283,158 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,498 +23%
- $230,660$283,158 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.
- Gustine$1,486
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Gustine, TX rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gustine, Comanche County, Texas
Gustine is a town of 392 people in Comanche County. Half its households earn more than $52,292 a year and half less, against $59,635 across Comanche County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Comanche County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Comanche County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gustine is a very small town in Comanche County, Texas, with fewer residents than most places people think of as towns. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are well above what those incomes might suggest. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then manufacturing and shops. Across Comanche County, the largest workplaces include Comanche ISD, Comanche County Medical Center and Brookshire's. Few people work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. The closest water for fishing and boating is Proctor Lake, a reservoir a longer drive away, with Lake Merritt, another reservoir, in the same category. The Sabana River is also a longer drive away. For a ballgame, Cecil Ballow Baseball Complex is a stadium a longer drive from town.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What people in Comanche County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Comanche County had 4,416 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 32 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Proctor Rsvr weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Comanche County
- Comanche ISDSchool district235FTE
- De Leon ISDSchool district159FTE
- Comanche County Medical CenterCritical access hospital128FTE
- LBFosterManufacturing building construction111
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers82
- TGR HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities80
- DeLeon Nursing & RehabNursing homes69
- Comanche Electric Cooperative AssnDistribution of electric power52
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 444 people in all across the county; Gustine has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gustine’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 Comanche County.
Gustine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gustine$283,158
- 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.
- Gustine9
Zip codes with a Gustine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gustine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.