Santa Clara, Texas.
Typical home $491,977 (+2.0% in a year). San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,315 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,590 +2%
- $482,386$491,977 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,584 +15%
- $429,393$491,977 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.
- Santa Clara$2,582
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Santa Clara, TX rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Santa Clara, Guadalupe County, Texas
Santa Clara is a city of 778 people in Guadalupe County. Half its households earn more than $81,607 a year and half less, against $92,375 across Guadalupe County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Guadalupe County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Guadalupe 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Santa Clara is a very small Texas city in Guadalupe County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes are valued well above what you might expect for a place this size. A four-year degree is less common among adults here than across much of the country, and the daily drive to work is a long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Guadalupe County, some of the largest workplaces are Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City ISD, Seguin Engine Center and Vitesco Technologies USA. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Comal River and Lake McQueeney are both a short drive away for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, a protected area, and to Natural Bridge Caverns. Winters are mild, summers are hot, and snow is rare, so most of the year suits time outdoors.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Guadalupe County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Guadalupe County had 49,773 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Braunfels weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Guadalupe County
- Schertz-cibolo-u City ISDSchool district1,914FTE
- Seguin Engine CenterDiesel and semidiesel engines manufacturing1,420
- Vitesco Technologies USAGenerating apparatus and parts for internal combustion engines manufacturing1,264
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,234
- Seguin ISDSchool district1,082FTE
- Aisin TexasAutomotive manufacting998
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing856
- Force Pressure ControlOil and gas field services on a contract basis694
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 137 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,866 people in all across the county; Santa Clara has none of its own. 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
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Santa Clara’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 Guadalupe County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Santa Clara home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Santa Clara$491,977
- 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.
- Santa Clara10
Zip codes with a Santa Clara address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Santa Clara — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.