Buchanan Dam, Texas.
Typical home $339,143 (-2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$826 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,277 -3%
- $349,420$339,143 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $31,839 -9%
- $370,983$339,143 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.
- Buchanan Dam$1,780
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Buchanan Dam, TX fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buchanan Dam, Llano County, Texas
Buchanan Dam, in Llano County, had 1,508 people in the 2020 census. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Llano County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Llano County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buchanan Dam is a small lakeside community in Llano County, and its residents are older on the whole than people in most American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are well above what many Texans pay. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are very hot, especially in August. Rain is moderate through the year.
Work. People here work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Llano County, the largest workplaces include Llano ISD, H-E-B and MID Coast Medical Center-central. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many parts of the country, and the typical commute is a fairly long one, though some people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Buchanan, a reservoir, and Inks Lake, another reservoir, are both a short drive away, as is Inks Lake State Park, a protected area. Farther afield, Longhorn Cavern State Park is a longer drive away and is another protected area.
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- 800households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 23%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What people in Llano County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Llano County had 5,721 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 28 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Llano weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Llano County
- Llano ISDSchool district315FTE
- SLP OperationsSkilled nursing facilities110
- Buttery CompanyHardware merchant wholesalers105
- H-E-BRetail83
- MID Coast Medical Center-centralCritical access hospital39FTE
- Central Texas Electric Co-opDistribution of electric power27
- Liberty Hill HSElectrical contractors and other wiring installation contractors27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 352 people in all across the county; Buchanan Dam has none of its own. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buchanan Dam’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 Llano County.
Buchanan Dam home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buchanan Dam$339,143
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Buchanan Dam 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.
- Buchanan Dam26.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buchanan Dam36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Buchanan Dam6
Zip codes with a Buchanan Dam address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buchanan Dam — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.