Burnet, Texas.
Typical home $397,912 (-1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,975 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,092 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,693 -2%
- $404,606$397,912 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,109 +6%
- $374,803$397,912 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.
- Burnet$2,089
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 58 years.
Typical home values in Burnet, TX fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas
Burnet is a city of 6,436 people in Burnet County. Half its households earn more than $87,587 a year and half less, against $78,732 across Burnet County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Burnet County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Burnet 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Burnet is a small Texas city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where household incomes run above the county's. Residents tend to be somewhat older than in much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Winters are mild and almost free of snow, summers are hot, and rain falls in modest amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Burnet are Burnet Cisd Schools, H-E-B and Ascension Seton Highland Lakes. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and the commute is a fairly long one, with some people working from home.
Things to do. Fort Croghan, a museum in or beside town, is the closest stop for local history. A short drive away are Longhorn Cavern State Park, a protected area, and Inks Lake, a reservoir. Lake Buchanan, another reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,405households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Burnet County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Burnet County had 17,073 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 32 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burnet weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burnet
- Burnet CisdSchool district467FTE
- H-E-BRetail199
- GibraltarPipe made from purchased iron or steel150
- Ascension Seton Highland LakesCritical access hospital141FTE
- Stealth FacilitiesWheelchairs manufacturing120
- Tank HoldingTanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing29
- Magnolia Hospice - Austin Branch Hill CountryHome health care agencies28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 723 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Burnet’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 Burnet County.
Burnet home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burnet$397,912
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Burnet listings — 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.
- Burnet19.81%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burnet300
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burnet31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Burnet$379,900
- United States$370,717
Zip codes with a Burnet address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burnet — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.