La Coste, Texas.
Typical home $226,663 (-0.4% in a year). San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $910 -0%
- $227,573$226,663 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,761 -6%
- $241,424$226,663 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.
- La Coste$1,190
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in La Coste, TX fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Coste, Medina County, Texas
La Coste is a city of 1,077 people in Medina County. Unemployment in Medina County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Medina 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Coste is a small city in Medina County, Texas, and it reads as a quiet, close-knit place. Typical home values here are well below what buyers meet in many parts of the country, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across Medina County, the largest workplaces include Medina Valley ISD, Medina Regional Hospital and Walmart. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and unemployment is about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. For days out, the Medina River and Medina Lake offer water and open country, each a longer drive away. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park is a protected area, and it too is a longer drive away. The San Antonio Zoo is another longer drive away.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
What people in Medina County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Medina County had 11,400 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 30 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lytle 3W weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Medina County
- Medina Valley ISDSchool district1,063FTE
- Microsoft SAT 80Electrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors284
- Devine ISDSchool district280FTE
- Hondo ISDSchool district275FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters248
- Medina Regional HospitalCritical access hospital211FTE
- Natalia ISDSchool district210FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters206
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,661 people in all across the county; La Coste 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Coste’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 Medina County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
La Coste home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Coste$226,663
- 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.
- La Coste8
Zip codes with a La Coste address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Coste — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.