Montalba, Texas.
Typical home $361,216 (+5.0% in a year). Palestine, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$67 (+4%) since Nov 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $17,169 +5%
- $344,047$361,216 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.
- Montalba$1,896
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Montalba, TX rose 5.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Montalba, Anderson County, Texas
The Census does not count Montalba on its own, so the figures here are Anderson County's. Half the county's households earn more than $62,068 a year and half less; 17% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 72% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Anderson County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Anderson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Montalba is a community in Anderson County in East Texas, where more homes are lived in by their owners than across the country as a whole. Household incomes across the county sit below the national typical, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than across the country. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with August the warmest month and January the coldest, and the area receives more rain and melted snow than most of the country.
Work. Across the county, most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, transport, warehouses and utilities, or government. Jobs in the county have grown in the most recent year, while unemployment has edged up slightly over the past year. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and fewer people work from home than in most of the country.
Things to do. Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area is a protected area a short drive away. The Museum for East Texas Culture is a museum a longer drive away, and Lake Palestine is a reservoir also a longer drive away.
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- 17,579households
- 39.7median age
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Anderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Anderson County had 20,563 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 73°. About 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palestine Wnw weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anderson County
- Sanderson Farms Palestine ProcessingPoultry processing1,108
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage848
- Palestine ISDSchool district518FTE
- Palestine Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital463FTE
- WalmartGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload447
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage437
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters366
- Allied Truss PalestineTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing325
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 30 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,518 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 across Anderson County, 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 Anderson County and the Palestine, TX metro.
Montalba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Montalba$361,216
- 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.
Zip codes with a Montalba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Montalba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.