Buckholts, Texas.
Typical home $280,104 (-1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$313 (+27%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $2,783 -1%
- $282,887$280,104 since Sep 2025
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.
- Buckholts$1,470
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Buckholts, TX fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buckholts, Milam County, Texas
Buckholts is a town of 365 people in Milam County. Unemployment in Milam County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Milam County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buckholts is a very small town in Milam County, Texas, and it is a quiet place where most people likely know one another. Homes here are valued well above what incomes in the county would suggest, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops and in farming, forestry and mining. Almost no one works from home, so most people travel to a job. Across Milam County, the largest workplaces include Mine Service, which moves dirt for construction, Rockdale ISD and Walmart, and the number of jobs in the county grew last year.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor choices are on the water: the Lampasas River and Brushy Creek for river settings, and Belton Lake, a reservoir, all a longer drive away. For something indoors, the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum is also a longer drive away.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Milam County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Milam County had 6,149 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 39 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cameron weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milam County
- Mine ServiceDirt moving for construction347
- IEA Construction - Sypert BranchAlternative energy structure construction336
- Perry & Perry BuildersIron work, structural, contractors300
- Rockdale ISDSchool district293FTE
- Cameron ISDSchool district247FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters180
- Affordable Interior SystemsOffice furniture, padded, upholstered, or plain, manufacturing168
- Thorndale ISDSchool district105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,810 people in all across the county; Buckholts has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- LightningVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buckholts’ 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 Milam County.
Buckholts home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buckholts$280,104
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Buckholts address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buckholts — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.