Orange Grove, Texas.
Typical home $195,152 (-7.0% in a year). Alice, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$267 (+35%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $14,722 -7%
- $209,874$195,152 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $24,500 -11%
- $219,652$195,152 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.
- Orange Grove$1,024
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Orange Grove, TX fell 7.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Orange Grove, Jim Wells County, Texas
Orange Grove is a city of 1,165 people in Jim Wells County. Half its households earn more than $44,779 a year and half less, against $51,896 across Jim Wells County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jim Wells County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jim Wells County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Orange Grove is a very small city in Jim Wells County, with a population that has stayed modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and the typical home is valued well above what a household here earns in a year. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with January the coldest month and August the warmest, and snow is rare.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Jim Wells County, some of the biggest employers are Alice ISD, H-E-B and Christus Spohn Alice. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Corpus Christi State Park, a protected area, and Lipantitlan State Historic Site are both a short drive away. Lake Corpus Christi, a reservoir, and the Nueces River are a longer drive away, for those who want more time on the water.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Jim Wells County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jim Wells County had 14,627 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 28 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mathis Ssw weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jim Wells County
- Alice ISDSchool district709FTE
- H-E-BRetail278
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters261
- FescoContract services for oil and gas fields255
- Orange Grove ISDSchool district231FTE
- Christus Spohn AliceGeneral hospital182FTE
- The Premier of Alice SNFNursing homes106
- Premont ISDSchool district97FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,510 people in all across the county; Orange Grove 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Orange Grove’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Jim Wells County and the Alice, TX metro.
Orange Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange Grove$195,152
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Orange Grove 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.
- Orange Grove17.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orange Grove36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orange Grove7
Zip codes with a Orange Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.