GardendaleTX
A town settled in 1971, now home to 1,544 people.
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.
Homes in Gardendale are worth about $412K, by Zillow’s estimate
In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 2.5%. Among households in Gardendale, 95% live in a home they own.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Gardendale has mild winters and hot summers
In Gardendale, the peak summer temperature 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
Against the Texas average, Gardendale comes out ahead on 9 CDC measures out of 31, and behind on 1. In Gardendale, 20% of adults binge drink. Among adults in the town, 72% had a checkup this year and 11% have diabetes.
| 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
Gardendale’s typical household income is $104,000. Only 2% of working residents stay in Gardendale for work; the rest commute out. Employers in Gardendale added 739 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,102. The top destinations are Odessa (32%), Midland (24%) and West Odessa (3%).
| 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
Top of a moderate hazard risk in Gardendale: inland flooding
Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 60% of U.S. communities. Of the losses FEMA expects in Gardendale, 37% come from inland flooding and 29% from hail. One declared disaster, in 2021, has brought federal aid to Gardendale households.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
0% of Gardendale is conserved land
The concentration of trails for Gardendale comes to 0.1 miles per square mile. Trails total 0.6 miles in 1 park or preserve. One park or preserve covers 11 acres in the town.
| 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.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- 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.