Anson, Texas.
Typical home $150,719 (+11.0% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$336 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,908 +11%
- $135,811$150,719 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,410 +12%
- $134,309$150,719 since Sep 2021
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.
- Anson$791
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Anson, TX rose 11.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Anson, Jones County, Texas
Anson is a city of 2,294 people in Jones County. Half its households earn more than $48,104 a year and half less, against $59,464 across Jones County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Jones County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Anson is a small city and the seat of Jones County in West Texas, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and household incomes run below the county's, with more people living in poverty than is typical. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with snow only a little and rain and melted snow in modest amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in government and in shops. Anson ISD and Anson General Hospital are among the largest workplaces in town, along with a privately operated jail. Few people work from home, and a four-year degree is less common here than in many places.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Noodle Creek is a river a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Stamford is a lake and The Grace Museum is a museum, both a longer drive away.
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- 1,076households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jones County had 3,269 jobs in 2025, 7.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 4 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anson weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Anson
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated215
- Anson ISDSchool district132FTE
- Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction46
- Anson General HospitalGeneral hospital36FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 261 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Anson’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Jones County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Anson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Anson$150,719
- 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.
- Anson17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Anson6
Zip codes with a Anson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Anson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.