Tolar, Texas.
Typical home $421,081 (+0.4% in a year). Granbury, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,009 (+84%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,694 +0%
- $419,387$421,081 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $12,797 +3%
- $408,284$421,081 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.
- Tolar$2,210
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Tolar, TX rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tolar, Hood County, Texas
Tolar is a city of 941 people in Hood County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Hood County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tolar is a very small Texas city, home to far fewer people than most towns of its kind. Most households own the place they live in, and a good share of residents hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild but can turn cold, with January the coolest month, while summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in the building trades. Across Hood County, Granbury ISD, Lake Granbury Medical Center and Walmart are among the largest workplaces. The commute to work is moderate, and some people work from home.
Things to do. The Paluxy River is a short drive away, and Tidwell Field, a stadium, is also close by. Dinosaur Valley State Park, a protected area known for its river and fossils, is a longer drive, as is Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, a zoo.
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- 26%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hood County had 18,782 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Granbury 5N weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hood County
- Granbury ISDSchool district1,121FTE
- Lake Granbury Medical CenterGeneral hospital566FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters396
- H-E-BRetail375
- Propell AmericanOil and gas field-type drilling machinery and equipment manufacturing215
- Granbury Care CenterNursing homes146
- Culberson ConstructionOil and gas pipeline141
- Kroger Texas LP Dallas KMASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores132
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 35 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,765 people in all across the county; Tolar has one 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
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tolar’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 Hood County and the Granbury, TX metro.
Tolar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tolar$421,081
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Tolar listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Tolar23.69%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tolar45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tolar8
Zip codes with a Tolar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tolar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.