Sabinal, Texas.
Typical home $173,482 (-3.3% in a year). Uvalde, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$398 (+78%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $5,964 -3%
- $179,446$173,482 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $11,757 +7%
- $161,725$173,482 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.
- Sabinal$911
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Sabinal, TX fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sabinal, Uvalde County, Texas
Sabinal is a city of 1,364 people in Uvalde County. Unemployment in Uvalde County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Uvalde 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sabinal is a small Texas city in Uvalde County, home to a close-knit community. Homes here are priced below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across the county sit below the national middle. Winters are mild and short, with the coldest weather in January still staying above freezing by day, while summers are hot, with August the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades, with others employed in restaurants, hotels and entertainment or in other services. Very few work from home. Across Uvalde County, the largest workplaces include the Uvalde school district, Southwest Texas Junior College and Uvalde Memorial Hospital. Unemployment in the county has risen a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Rancheros Creek is a river a short drive away, a handy spot for time by the water. Farther afield, Garner State Park and Hill Country State Natural Area are protected areas a longer drive away, well suited to a day of walking and being outdoors. The Grand Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 2%work from home
What people in Uvalde County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Uvalde County had 9,739 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hondo Municipal Airport weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Uvalde County
- Uvalde CisdSchool district759FTE
- Southwest Texas Junior CollegeTwo-year college496
- Uvalde Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital442FTE
- H-E-BRetail290
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters261
- Uvalde I EnterprisesNursing homes108
- Sabinal ISDSchool district91FTE
- UniFirst UVALDEIndustrial launderer74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,123 people in all across the county; Sabinal has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sabinal’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 Uvalde County and the Uvalde, TX metro.
Sabinal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sabinal$173,482
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 10 Sabinal 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.
- Sabinal9.95%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sabinal44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sabinal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sabinal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.