Joshua, Texas.
Typical home $351,559 (-0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,824 . Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$966 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $870 -0%
- $352,429$351,559 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,938 +15%
- $304,622$351,559 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.
- Joshua$1,845
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Joshua, TX fell 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Joshua, Johnson County, Texas
Joshua is a city of 7,891 people in Johnson County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Joshua is a small city in Johnson County, Texas, and its residents are somewhat younger than the typical American. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the community. Homes here cost more than a lot of the surrounding area might suggest, and rents run high for a town this size. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain is spread across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, other services and retail. Joshua ISD and Brookshire's are among the largest workplaces in town. Commutes are fairly long, which fits a town where many people work elsewhere in the region, and only a small share of workers do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Village Creek runs in or beside town and is the closest outdoor spot. A longer drive away are Dinosaur Valley State Park, a protected area, and the Fort Worth Zoo. Anyone wanting a day of art can head to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, also a longer drive away.
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- 3,195households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 60,969 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 37 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burleson weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Joshua
- Joshua ISDSchool district858FTE
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers63
- First Student61
- JoshuaMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 147 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Joshua’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 Johnson County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Joshua home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Joshua$351,559
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Joshua 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.
- Joshua31.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Joshua87
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Joshua23
Zip codes with a Joshua address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Joshua — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.