Taft, Texas.
Typical home $144,275 (+4.5% in a year). Corpus Christi, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$121 (+19%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,267 +5%
- $138,008$144,275 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $36,489 -20%
- $180,764$144,275 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.
- Taft$757
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Taft, TX rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Taft, San Patricio County, Texas
Taft is a city of 2,801 people in San Patricio County. Unemployment in San Patricio County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Taft is a small Texas city in San Patricio County, and it is the kind of place where people tend to know one another. Homes here are priced well below what many Texas buyers expect, and household incomes in the county sit a little below the middle of the state. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and many residents work with their hands or in public-facing jobs.
Work. Residents of Taft are most often employed in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, the building trades and shops. Commutes run somewhat longer than a quick trip across town, and nobody works from home. Across San Patricio County, some of the largest workplaces are Corpus Christi LNG, Steel Dynamics in Sinton and Gregory-Portland ISD, though unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, and summers turn hot, with rain spread through the year, so outdoor outings suit most seasons. A longer drive takes you to the USS Lexington, a museum ship, or to the Texas State Aquarium, a zoo and aquarium. Mustang Island State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected stretch of coast.
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- 856households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Patricio County had 21,467 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 74°. About 36 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Welder Wildlife Foundation weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Patricio County
- Corpus Christi Liquefaction Project Stage 3Industrial building construction5,940
- Kiewit Offshore Services, Ltd._2440 Kiewit RoadDrilling and production platforms, floating, oil and gas, building2,172
- Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Flat Roll Group - SintonSteel manufacturing973
- Gregory-portland ISDSchool district749FTE
- MMR Constructors, Inc. - Corpus Christi OperationsLow voltage electrical work482
- Corpus Christi LNGGases, industrial, manufacturing474
- Occidental ChemicalChlorine manufacturing348
- Sinton ISDSchool district331FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 51 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,551 people in all across the county; Taft has one 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
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Taft’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 San Patricio County and the Corpus Christi, TX metro.
Taft home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Taft$144,275
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Taft 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.
- Taft16.23%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Taft29
Zip codes with a Taft address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Taft — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.