Valley Spring, Texas.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Valley Spring, Llano County, Texas
The Census does not count Valley Spring on its own, so the figures here are Llano County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,530 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 76% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Llano County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Llano County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Valley Spring is a small town in Llano County, in the Texas Hill Country. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and many residents are older. Winters are cool, summers are hot, and snow is rare, so the seasons are shaped more by heat and rain than by cold.
Work. Across Llano County, unemployment has stayed close to where it was a year earlier, and jobs have edged up over the past year. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in the building trades. A fair number of people work from home, and household incomes are more modest than in many parts of the country.
Things to do. Lake Buchanan, a reservoir, is a longer drive away and suits a day of boating or fishing. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, a protected area, is also a longer drive away and is known for its large granite dome. Fort Mason, a museum, is a longer drive away for anyone interested in the region's history.
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- 10,765households
- 57.4median age
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Llano County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Llano County had 5,721 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 28 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Llano weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Llano County
- Llano ISDSchool district315FTE
- SLP OperationsSkilled nursing facilities110
- Buttery CompanyHardware merchant wholesalers105
- H-E-BRetail83
- MID Coast Medical Center-centralCritical access hospital39FTE
- Central Texas Electric Co-opDistribution of electric power27
- Liberty Hill HSElectrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 352 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Llano County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Llano County.
Valley Spring home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Valley Spring7
Zip codes with a Valley Spring address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valley Spring — 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.