Bynum, Texas.
Typical home $286,562 (+4.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$445 (+42%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $12,867 +5%
- $273,695$286,562 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.
- Bynum$1,504
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bynum, TX rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bynum, Hill County, Texas
Bynum is a town of 171 people in Hill County. Unemployment in Hill County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hill 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bynum is a very small town in Hill County, Texas, with a population far smaller than most places people think of as towns. Its residents are young for the area, with a median age well below what is typical across the country. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rare sight, while summers turn very hot by August, and rain falls steadily enough through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with building trades, shops and manufacturing also employing many. Only a small share work from home. Across Hill County, larger workplaces include Hill College, Hillsboro ISD and Walmart, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Whitney and Navarro Mills Lake are reservoirs a longer drive away, suited to a day by the water. The Bosque River is another waterway a longer drive away, and Cameron Park Zoo is also a longer drive away for a day with animals.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Hill County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hill County had 11,848 jobs in 2025, 2.7% 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 97° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hillsboro weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hill County
- Bobcat ContractingCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction590
- Hill CollegeTwo-year college410
- Hillsboro ISDSchool district294FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters289
- DynaEnergetics US Inc. -Blum, TX Main CampusGas well machinery and equipment manufacturing265
- Whitney ISDSchool district264FTE
- WellsConcrete products, precast, manufacturing206
- Clayton Supply Of TxGeneral warehousing and storage200
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,831 people in all across the county; Bynum has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bynum’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Hill County.
Bynum home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bynum$286,562
- 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.
Zip codes with a Bynum address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bynum — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.