McDade, Texas.
Typical home $455,803 (-0.5% in a year). Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,275 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,182 -0%
- $457,985$455,803 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,695 +10%
- $414,108$455,803 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.
- McDade$2,392
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in McDade, TX fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas
McDade, in Bastrop County, had 720 people in the 2020 census. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% are rented. Unemployment in Bastrop County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bastrop County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McDade is a small community in Bastrop County, home to far fewer people than the larger towns around it. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, and fewer households fall below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural community. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers get very hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Across Bastrop County, the largest workplaces include Space Exploration Technologies, Bastrop ISD and H-E-B. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Bastrop is a lake a short drive away, and Bastrop State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away. For a day out, the Bullock Texas State History Museum is also a longer drive away, as is Circuit of the Americas, a race track.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Bastrop County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bastrop County had 23,427 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 36 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elgin North weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bastrop County
- Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing3,528
- Bastrop ISDSchool district1,578FTE
- Space Exploration TechnologiesSatellite communications equipment manufacturing1,486
- Elgin ISDSchool district791FTE
- H-E-BRetail736
- Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and SpaAuslp533
- TCS MechanicalProcess piping installation435
- H-E-BRetail332
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,740 people in all across the county; McDade 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 McDade’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 Bastrop County and the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
McDade home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- McDade$455,803
- 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.
- McDade14
Zip codes with a McDade address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McDade — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.