Rosebud, Texas.
Typical home $146,557 (+2.7% in a year). Waco, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$315 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,897 +3%
- $142,660$146,557 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,976 -3%
- $150,533$146,557 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.
- Rosebud$769
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Rosebud, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rosebud, Falls County, Texas
Rosebud is a city of 1,296 people in Falls County. Unemployment in Falls County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Falls County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rosebud is a small city in Falls County, Texas, with a population that stays well under the size of most county seats elsewhere in the state. Homes here are priced modestly, and household incomes across Falls County sit below those of Texas as a whole. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers turn hot, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year.
Work. Many people in Rosebud work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, government and manufacturing also employing a good share of residents. A small number work from home. Among the largest workplaces across Falls County are Marlin ISD, Rosebud-Lott ISD and Walmart.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Belton Lake is a reservoir a longer drive away, and the Lampasas River is another water destination at about the same distance. For something indoors, the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum is a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 6%work from home
What people in Falls County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Falls County had 3,030 jobs in 2025, 3.5% 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 94° and lows near 73°. About 39 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cameron weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Falls County
- M A MortensonConstruction201
- Marlin ISDSchool district177FTE
- Rosebud-lott ISDSchool district130FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores111
- Chilton ISDSchool district100FTE
- H-E-B71
- Parsons Commercial RoofingRoofing68
- Falls Community Hospital and ClinicGeneral hospital65FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 593 people in all across the county; Rosebud 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rosebud’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 Falls County and the Waco, TX metro.
Rosebud home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rosebud$146,557
- 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.
- Rosebud9
Zip codes with a Rosebud address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rosebud — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.