Marion, Texas.
Typical home $298,247 (+0.0% in a year). San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$724 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $126 +0%
- $298,121$298,247 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,721 +6%
- $280,526$298,247 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.
- Marion$1,565
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 57 years.
Typical home values in Marion, TX rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marion, Guadalupe County, Texas
Marion is a city of 1,034 people in Guadalupe County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Guadalupe County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marion is a very small city, and most homes in town are lived in by their owners. Poverty is somewhat more common here than you might expect for the county, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with the warmest weather in August; rain falls through the year in moderate amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in professional and business services. Across Guadalupe County, the largest workplaces include Schertz-cibolo-u City ISD, Seguin Engine Center and Vitesco Technologies USA. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs.
Things to do. The nearest outings are on the water: the Comal River and Lake McQueeney are both a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to San Antonio, where the San Antonio Zoo and the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, a protected area, are among the better known places to visit. Natural Bridge Caverns, also a protected area, is a longer drive as well.
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- 402households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guadalupe County had 49,773 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Braunfels weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Guadalupe County
- Schertz-cibolo-u City ISDSchool district1,914FTE
- Seguin Engine CenterDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing1,420
- Vitesco Technologies USAGenerating apparatus and parts for internal combustion engines manufacturing1,264
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,234
- Seguin ISDSchool district1,082FTE
- Aisin TexasAutomotive manufacting998
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing856
- Force Pressure ControlOil and gas field services on a contract basis694
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 137 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,866 people in all across the county; Marion 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
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marion’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Guadalupe County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Marion home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marion$298,247
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Marion listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Marion30.59%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marion28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marion6
Zip codes with a Marion address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marion — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.