Bangs, Texas.
Typical home $186,837 (+2.1% in a year). Brownwood, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$473 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,884 +2%
- $182,953$186,837 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,830 +12%
- $167,007$186,837 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.
- Bangs$981
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Bangs, TX rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bangs, Brown County, Texas
Bangs is a city of 1,540 people in Brown County. Half its households earn more than $48,098 a year and half less, against $57,470 across Brown County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Brown County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bangs is a small Texas city in Brown County, home to a population that is somewhat older than the typical American community. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run below the county's. Winters are mild, with only a dusting of snow in a typical year, and summers get very hot, with August the warmest month. Rain falls through the year in moderate amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and the building trades also common. Across Brown County, some of the largest workplaces are Brownwood ISD, Hendrick Medical Center Brownwood and Kohler. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and very few work from home. Job numbers across the county slipped a little last year, and unemployment is about where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Don Shepard Park is a stadium for local games. Farther out, Lake Brownwood is a reservoir, and Lake Brownwood State Park is a protected area on its shores, both a longer drive away. The Robert E. Howard Museum, also a longer drive away, is a museum for those curious about the Texas writer's life.
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- 627households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brown County had 15,574 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brownwood 2ENE weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brown County
- 3M Company540
- Brownwood ISDSchool district517FTE
- KohlerBathtubs, plastics, manufacturing506
- Superior EssexStrip, copper and copper alloy, made from purchased copper or in integrated secondary smelting and rolling, drawing or extruding plants422
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Hendrick Medical Center BrownwoodGeneral hospital333FTE
- Howard Payne UniversityUniversity or college264
- United SupermarketsSupermarket183
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,101 people in all across the county; Bangs has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bangs’ 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 Brown County and the Brownwood, TX metro.
Bangs home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bangs$186,837
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Bangs listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Bangs15.82%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bangs23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bangs address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bangs — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.