Brownsboro, Texas.
Typical home $274,202 (-2.5% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$734 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,947 -2%
- $281,148$274,202 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,782 +7%
- $256,419$274,202 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.
- Brownsboro$1,439
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 52 years.
Typical home values in Brownsboro, TX fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brownsboro, Henderson County, Texas
Brownsboro is a city of 1,212 people in Henderson County. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brownsboro is a small East Texas city, home to far fewer people than most towns in the region. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and chilly days that stay above freezing by afternoon, while summers are hot, especially in August. Rain and the occasional bit of melted snow come through the year in generous amounts. Homes here cost more than many might expect for a small rural town, and household incomes in the county are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many. Across Henderson County, some of the largest workplaces are Argon Medical Devices, Trinity Valley Community College and Athens ISD. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and the typical commute is a fairly long one. Joblessness in the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Athens, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the nearest water for an afternoon out. A longer drive brings you to Lake Palestine, another reservoir, and to Tyler State Park, a protected area of woods and water. Caldwell Zoo is also a longer drive away for a day trip.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 20,065 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tyler Pounds Field weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Argon Medical DevicesHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing552
- Trinity Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college537
- Athens ISDSchool district437FTE
- UT Heath AthensGeneral hospital411FTE
- Brownsboro ISDSchool district402FTE
- BiomericsCatheters manufacturing347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,132 people in all across the county; Brownsboro has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of BrownsboroRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of BrownsboroRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brownsboro’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 Henderson County and the Athens, TX metro.
Brownsboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brownsboro$274,202
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brownsboro 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.
- Brownsboro23.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brownsboro27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Brownsboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brownsboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.