Buffalo, Texas.
Typical home $287,467 (+2.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$685 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,812 +2%
- $280,656$287,467 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,096 +6%
- $271,371$287,467 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.
- Buffalo$1,509
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 60 years.
Typical home values in Buffalo, TX rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Buffalo, Leon County, Texas
Buffalo is a city of 1,767 people in Leon County. Unemployment in Leon County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Leon County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Buffalo is a small city in Leon County, Texas, in the eastern part of the state. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, especially in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical for the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, the building trades, and shops. Across Leon County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Steel Jewett, which makes iron and steel bars, the power company NRG, and the Buffalo school district. Most people drive to work, and the typical commute is a modest one, with very few working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Neches River National Wildlife Refuge and Fort Boggy State Park are both protected areas, each a longer drive away. Lake Limestone, a reservoir, is also a longer drive, and suits a day by the water. Catfish Creek, a river, is another longer drive.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Leon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Leon County had 6,189 jobs in 2025, 5.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 42 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leon County
- R Construction CompanyOil and gas field services on a contract basis754
- A. L. HelmcampPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction567
- Nucor Steel JewettBars, iron, made in iron and steel mills458
- Buffalo ISDSchool district177FTE
- NRGPower generation, fossil fuel, electric150
- Centerville ISDSchool district122FTE
- Leon ISDSchool district116FTE
- Normangee ISDSchool district113FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,254 people in all across the county; Buffalo 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windrelatively high in parts of BuffaloRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Buffalo’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 Leon County.
Buffalo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Buffalo$287,467
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 10 Buffalo listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Buffalo10.06%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Buffalo26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Buffalo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Buffalo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.