Bryan, Texas.
Typical home $272,213 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $1,428 (+0.2%). College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$686 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $752 +0%
- $271,460$272,213 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,396 +19%
- $227,817$272,213 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.
- Bryan$1,429
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Bryan, TX rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Bryan, TX rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Bryan runs $643/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $788 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,070 a month against $1,428 rent: a $1,429 mortgage payment, plus $350 property tax and $291 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Bryan
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,070
- Renting$1,428
- Mortgage only$1,429
Property tax · $350/mo 1.54% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brazos County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $291/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas
Bryan is a city of 83,980 people in Brazos County. Half its households earn more than $59,289 a year and half less, against $58,553 across Brazos County; 23% of its people live below the poverty line. 51% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 49% are rented. Unemployment in Bryan was 3.8% in August 2026, and Brazos County had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. Bryan is a city in Brazos County, home to a young population by national standards, with many residents still early in their working lives. Household incomes sit a little above the county's, though a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is typical, and owners and renters live in the city's homes in close to equal numbers. Typical home values and rents are moderate for a city of its size, and getting to work takes less time than for many Americans.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, the building trades, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Bryan are Bryan ISD, St. Joseph Regional Health Center and Sanderson Farms Brazos Processing. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. For a quieter day, Lake Bryan and the D. A. "Andy" Anderson Arboretum, a botanical garden, are both a short drive away. The George Bush Presidential Library, a museum, is also a short drive away, as is Kyle Field, the stadium. Winters are mild and brief, summers are very hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 33,622households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazos County had 126,296 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 75°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the College Station weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bryan
- Bryan ISDSchool district2,632FTE
- St. Joseph Regional Health CenterGeneral hospital1,982FTE
- Sanderson Farms Brazos ProcessingPoultry processing1,608
- H-E-BRetail456
- Cornerstone Building BrandsBaseboards, metal, manufacturing366
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters272
- Bryan TX SDCMail and parcel delivery267
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 69 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,593 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of BryanRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bryan’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 Brazos County and the College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
Bryan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bryan$272,213
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Bryan listings, and the typical home goes pending in 60 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Bryan22.94%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Bryan60
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bryan586
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bryan95
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Bryan$282,228
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Bryan97.54%
Zip codes with a Bryan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bryan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bryan
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77803 | Bryan | 31,525 | $1,555 | $198,443 |
| 77802 | Bryan | 25,762 | $1,414 | $285,137 |
| 77801 | Bryan | 15,461 | $1,306 | $225,576 |
| 77807 | Bryan | 13,227 | $1,522 | $288,866 |