GardendaleTX
A town of 1,544, settled in 1971.
Is Gardendale a good place to live?
Gardendale’s best subject grade is an A for incomes; its weakest is a D for walkability. Gardendale's public schools trail 86% of Texas towns on state tests and graduation. 1.5% of residents live below the poverty line in Gardendale, below both Texas’ towns (12%) and U.S. towns (9.6%). No town in Texas scores lower than Gardendale on history. Gardendale has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Gardendale has grown 28% from 2010 to 2020
1,574 counted in 2010 and 2,020 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Gardendale grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Gardendale is from typical.
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Moving to Gardendale: who provides what
Gardendale is unincorporated, so Ector County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Gardendale.
Gardendale’s typical home value is about $412K
The typical Gardendale home is worth about $412,000, up 2.5% in a year, 39% above the Texas typical home. 95% of households own their home in Gardendale, above both the Texas town median (69%) and the median of U.S. towns (73%).
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
In Gardendale, expect mild winters and hot summers
Gardendale has mild winters and hot summers, with very little rain. The July high in Gardendale is 95°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Gardendale are healthier than 65% of U.S. towns
Gardendale beats the Texas average on 9 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 1. 20% of Gardendale adults binge drink.
| Gardendale | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 17% | 16% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 72% | 74% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 11% | 13% | 12% |
| What stands out | Gardendale | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.5% | 19.3% |
| Fewer adults without reliable transportation | 7.4% | 10.5% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 7.4% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
About one in three of Gardendale’s working residents commute to Odessa
Most working residents leave Gardendale for work: only 2% work in town. Gardendale’s average trip to work is 31 minutes. Since 2013, Gardendale has added 739 jobs, to 1,102 in 2023.
| Gardendale | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $104,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.1% | 8.3% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Inland flooding leads a moderate hazard risk in Gardendale
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 60% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Gardendale has set aside 0% of its land for conservation
0.6 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Gardendale Park | 0.2 mi | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum and 3 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Gardendale. Close and well known come first.
16 mi MuseumPermian Basin Petroleum Museum10 mi TheatreGlobe of the Great Southwest16 mi MuseumMuseum of the Southwest9 mi MuseumPresidential Museum and Leadership LibraryPhoto credits
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum: Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0
Everything we know about Gardendale
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Gardendale
About 0 of every 100 Gardendale residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Gardendale
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Gardendale is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Ector County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,020 at the 2020 census, up from 1,574 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Odessa, Texas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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- Area
- 12 sq mi
- Elevation
- 2,966 ft
- ZIP code
- 79758
- Area code
- 432
Questions about Gardendale
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Gardendale, TX expensive?
That is 5.8 years of the area's median household income ($71,536 across the Odessa, TX metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.