Willow GroveTX
A town of 2,080. Public schools that outperform most of Texas.
Is Willow Grove a good place to live?
The best of Willow Grove’s subject grades are an A for schools and an A− for health; the weakest is a C− for cost of living. Willow Grove’s July high is 95°F, near the Texas town median (95°F) and above the median of U.S. towns (85°F). On the outdoors, just 7 of Texas’ 1,000 towns do worse. Willow Grove has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Willow Grove stand out
Where Willow Grove beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Willow Grove for work
Where Willow Grove’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Willow Grove grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Texas), ordered by how far Willow Grove is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Willow Grove: who provides what
Willow Grove is unincorporated, so McLennan 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 Willow Grove.
Willow Grove’s schools rank ahead of 88% of Texas districts
Its public schools are run by Midway ISD. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speegleville ElLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 228 | A− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within TX on state tests and graduation
Willow Grove is healthier than 80% of U.S. towns
Willow Grove beats the Texas average on 13 of 31 CDC measures and trails it on 2. 9.2% of adults worry about having enough food in Willow Grove, where Texas’ towns sit at 20% and U.S. towns at 14%. 21% of Willow Grove adults get no exercise outside work.
| Willow Grove | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 9.2% | 20% | 14% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 30% | 25% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 24% | 19% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 18% | 17% |
| What stands out | Willow Grove | TX |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 9.2% | 19.3% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.2% | 16.4% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 9.2% | 6.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Willow Grove’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Willow Grove for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs based in Willow Grove grew to 282 in 2023, 71 more than in 2013. 7.3% of residents live below the poverty line in Willow Grove.
| Willow Grove | Texas towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 15% | 9.7% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.1% | 8.3% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.3% | 12% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $69,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Willow Grove faces a low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 76% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Mild winters and hot summers in Willow Grove
Willow Grove has mild winters and hot summers. The January low in Willow Grove is 36°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Homes in Willow Grove sell for about $60K
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
McLane Stadium and 4 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Willow Grove. Close and well known come first.
9 mi Stadium & arenaMcLane Stadium
11 mi MuseumTexas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
8 mi National MonumentWaco Mammoth National Monument92K visitors a year
9 mi Zoo & aquariumCameron Park Zoo
11 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 Willow Grove
Colleges nearby
3 within 15 miles of the center of Willow Grove
About 4 of every 100 Willow Grove residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Texas.
About Willow Grove
Census-designated place in Texas, United States
Willow Grove is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in McLennan County, Texas, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. As of the 2020 census, Willow Grove had a population of 2,082. It is in the central part of the county, on the southwest side of Texas State Highway 6. It is 6 miles (10 km) northwest of Woodway and 11 miles (18 km) west of downtown Waco.
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- Area
- 5.2 sq mi
- Elevation
- 551 ft
Questions about Willow Grove
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Willow Grove, TX a good place to live?
Public schools that outperform most of Texas.
Is Willow Grove, TX expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $270,000, 9% below the Texas typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.