Bartlett, Texas.
Typical home $214,521 (+0.1% in a year). Killeen-Temple, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$551 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $319 +0%
- $214,202$214,521 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,409 -5%
- $224,930$214,521 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.
- Bartlett$1,126
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bartlett, TX rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bartlett, Bell County, Texas
Bartlett is a city of 1,633 people in Bell County. Half its households earn more than $67,438 a year and half less, against $68,865 across Bell County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Bell County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bartlett is a small Texas city in Bell County, with a population small enough that most people know one another by name. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run a little below the county's. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with little or no snow and summers that turn very hot, especially in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and professional and business services. The commute to work is a long one, and only a small share of people work from home. Some of the largest workplaces across Bell County are Scott and White Memorial Hospital, Killeen ISD and the Veterans Health Administration.
Things to do. Granger Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the closest spot for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to Belton Lake, another reservoir, and to Inner Space Cavern, a tourist attraction. Dell Diamond, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 621households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bell County had 130,527 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 35 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Granger Dam weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bell County
- Scott and White Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital7,067FTE
- Killeen ISDSchool district6,251FTE
- Baylor Scott & White Health4,950
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,766
- Belton ISDSchool district2,104FTE
- Baylor Scott & White Health1,444
- Temple ISDSchool district1,292FTE
- H-E-BRetail1,280
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 221 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 42,460 people in all across the county; Bartlett has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BartlettRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bartlett’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 Bell County and the Killeen-Temple, TX metro.
Bartlett home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bartlett$214,521
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bartlett listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Bartlett18.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bartlett25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bartlett address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bartlett — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.