Kosse, Texas.
Typical home $222,002 (-1.2% in a year). Waco, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$533 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,637 -1%
- $224,639$222,002 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $6,257 -3%
- $228,259$222,002 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.
- Kosse$1,165
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kosse, TX fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kosse, Limestone County, Texas
Kosse is a town of 458 people in Limestone County. Unemployment in Limestone County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Limestone 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kosse is a very small town in Limestone County, Texas, small enough that most people know one another by sight. Homes here are priced modestly, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coolest month and highs still comfortable by day, while August brings hot summers, and rain comes at a moderate level through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Very few work from home, so most people travel to a job. Across Limestone County, the largest workplaces include Mexia ISD, Groesbeck ISD and Limestone Medical Center, and unemployment in the county has stayed close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. Fort Parker State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Limestone, a reservoir, lies a similar distance off. Also a longer drive away is the Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site, another protected area. Together they give the town's surroundings a mix of lakeside and parkland to visit.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Limestone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Limestone County had 8,650 jobs in 2025, 0.8% 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 August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marlin weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Limestone County
- Mexia ISDSchool district345FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Groesbeck ISDSchool district248FTE
- Limestone Medical CenterCritical access hospital177FTE
- Frazier IndFoundries, iron160
- Carry-On MexiaTruck trailer manufacturing129
- H-E-BRetail116
- Skilled Care of MexiaNursing homes111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,692 people in all across the county; Kosse has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively 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 Kosse’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 Limestone County and the Waco, TX metro.
Kosse home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kosse$222,002
- 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.
- Kosse13
Zip codes with a Kosse address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kosse — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.