GholsonTX
A town of 1,274.
Is Gholson a good place to live?
The best of Gholson’s subject grades is an A for cost of living; the weakest is a D− for walkability. Gholson's civic life (library use, community groups, volunteering) trails 98% of U.S. towns. On the outdoors, just 36 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Gholson has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Gholson stand out
Where Gholson beats most towns.
Gholson has grown 28% since 2010
1,061 counted in 2010 and 1,250 in 2020; an estimated 1,274 in 2025.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts · Census Bureau estimate, July 1, 2025
How Gholson grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Gholson is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Gholson: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Gholson, and how to reach them.
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 Gholson.
Gholson has a very low natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
Expected losses in Gholson break down as 38% from inland flooding and 30% from tornadoes. FEMA expects less storm and flood damage here than in 89% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Public schools in Gholson fall behind 77% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Gholson ISD. The town’s only public school teaches 264 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gholson IsdLargest public high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 264 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Most of Gholson’s workers commute out: the town has 0.1 jobs for each of them
The top destinations are Waco (28%), West (12%) and Austin (3%). Most working residents leave Gholson for work: only 1% work in town. Employers in Gholson added 27 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 80. Gholson: 7.4% of residents live below the poverty line, below both Texas’ towns (12%) and U.S. towns (9.6%).
| Gholson | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working residents who work in town | 0.8% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.4% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Gholson: mild winters and hot summers
The midsummer high for Gholson comes to 96°F, where Texas’ towns sit at 95°F and U.S. towns at 85°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Gholson’s typical home value is about $270K
Values fell 2.5% in the year to September 2026. The median rent for Gholson comes to $862 a month. For households locally, the share who own their home is 79%.
| Gholson | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $862 a month | $1,208 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 79% | 69% | 73% |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Residents of Gholson are less healthy than 53% of U.S. towns
In Gholson, just over one in ten adults worry about having enough food, and 77% had a checkup this year. Of 31 CDC measures, Gholson beats the Texas average on 8 and trails it on 6. The share of adults 18 to 64 in Gholson who have no health insurance: 12%.
| Gholson | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 39% | 35% | 35% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 18% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 12% | 20% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 74% | 79% |
| What stands out | Gholson | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 11.7% | 19.3% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 10.3% | 16.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.7% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
McLane Stadium and 4 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Gholson. Close and well known come first.
13 mi Stadium & arenaMcLane Stadium
13 mi MuseumTexas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
8 mi National MonumentWaco Mammoth National Monument92K visitors a year
11 mi Zoo & aquariumCameron Park Zoo
13 mi MuseumMayborn Museum ComplexPhoto credits
McLane Stadium: Djyueng, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum: Pi3.124, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Waco Mammoth National Monument: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Cameron Park Zoo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0 · Mayborn Museum Complex: User:Aboxorocks, Public domain
Everything we know about Gholson
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Gholson
About 3 of every 100 Gholson residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
1,274 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
About Gholson
City in Texas, United States
Gholson is a city in McLennan County, Texas, United States. The population was recorded as 1,250 in the 2020 census. It is part of the Waco metropolitan area. The area was settled in the 1840s, and was originally known as Sardis. The name Gholson, named after its early settlers, brothers Benjamin and Samuel Gholson, came into gradual use, and became the official name of the post office in 1887.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 8.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 430 ft
- Area code
- 254
Questions about Gholson
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Gholson, TX expensive?
Not for the area. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades A.