Menard, Texas.
Typical home $170,477 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$161 (+22%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,868 +4%
- $164,609$170,477 since Sep 2025
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.
- Menard$895
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Menard, TX rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Menard, Menard County, Texas
Menard is a city of 1,348 people in Menard County. Unemployment in Menard County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Menard is a small Texas city, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights, and summers turn hot, especially in July. Rain and the occasional bit of snow add up to a fairly dry year.
Work. Across Menard County, the school district, Menard ISD, is the largest workplace. Almost no one works from home, so most people go to a job in person. Job numbers across the county grew slightly last year, though unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. For time on the water, Brady Creek Reservoir is a longer drive away. Gentry Creek, a river, is also a longer drive away. History-minded visitors can head to Fort McKavett, an old fort, which is likewise a longer drive.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 68°. About 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Menard weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Menard County
- Menard ISDSchool district66FTE
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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Menard’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 Menard County.
Menard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Menard$170,477
- 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.
- Menard15
Zip codes with a Menard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Menard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.