Baird, Texas.
Typical home $199,103 (+8.1% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$401 (+62%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,935 +8%
- $184,168$199,103 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $1,429 +1%
- $197,674$199,103 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.
- Baird$1,045
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Baird, TX rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baird, Callahan County, Texas
Baird is a city of 1,479 people in Callahan County. Half its households earn more than $50,772 a year and half less, against $72,436 across Callahan County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Callahan County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baird is a small city in Callahan County, with a population that keeps it close-knit. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are valued at a level that many buyers on a modest budget would find within reach. Winters are mild and brief, with little snow, while summers turn hot, especially in August.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, in shops and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Baird are Baird ISD, FedEx Freight and E. 6th St Opco, a skilled nursing facility. Jobs across the county have grown over the past year, and the typical commute is short, with almost no one working from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Abilene Zoological Gardens and The Grace Museum, both in Abilene, are a longer drive away. The Robert E. Howard Museum is another museum within a longer drive. Kirby Lake, a reservoir, offers a place to spend time by the water, also a longer drive from town.
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- 595households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Callahan County had 3,043 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 4 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Putnam weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baird
- Baird ISDSchool district62FTE
- FedEx FreightLess than truckload general freight trucking45
- E. 6th St OpcoSkilled nursing facilities39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 84 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baird’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Callahan County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Baird home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baird$199,103
- 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.
- Baird11
Zip codes with a Baird address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baird — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.