Waelder, Texas.
Typical home $285,152 (-9.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$216 (+17%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $28,775 -9%
- $313,927$285,152 since Sep 2025
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.
- Waelder$1,497
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Waelder, TX fell 9.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Waelder, Gonzales County, Texas
Waelder is a city of 933 people in Gonzales County. Half its households earn more than $61,214 a year and half less, against $58,672 across Gonzales County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Gonzales County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gonzales County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Waelder is a very small Texas city where residents are, on average, in the middle years of adulthood. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a noticeable share of people still live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many older homeowners might expect for a town this size.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, farming and shops also employing many. Across Gonzales County, the largest workplaces include Gonzales ISD, Holmes Foods and Kitchen Pride Mushroom Farm. 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. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers turn very hot by August, so outings are pleasant in the cooler months. Buescher State Park and Palmetto State Park are protected areas for walking and being outdoors, each a longer drive away. The San Marcos River, also a longer drive away, offers time by the water.
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- 13%below the poverty line
What people in Gonzales County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gonzales County had 7,340 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Flatonia 4SE weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gonzales County
- Gonzales ISDSchool district423FTE
- Holmes FoodsPoultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing325
- Kitchen Pride Mushroom FarmMushroom farming249
- Nixon-smiley CisdSchool district213FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters205
- H-E-BRetail164
- Gonzales Healthcare SystemsGeneral hospital158FTE
- Adams Extract & SpiceExtracts, food, manufacturing153
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,797 people in all across the county; Waelder has none 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Waelder’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 Gonzales County.
Waelder home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Waelder$285,152
- 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.
- Waelder18
Zip codes with a Waelder address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Waelder — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.