Cameron, Texas.
Typical home $244,391 (+1.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$554 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,169 +2%
- $240,222$244,391 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $5,832 +2%
- $238,559$244,391 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.
- Cameron$1,283
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Cameron, TX rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cameron, Milam County, Texas
Cameron is a city of 5,306 people in Milam County. Half its households earn more than $62,443 a year and half less, against $66,141 across Milam County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cameron is a small city and the seat of Milam County, home to a fairly young population for a town of its size. Incomes here run a little below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than most would expect, while most homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in farming, forestry and mining, and in shops. Among the town's largest workplaces are Cameron ISD, Affordable Interior Systems and Brookshire Brothers. A four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than in much of the country, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. For time on the water, Granger Lake is a reservoir, and Brushy Creek and the Lampasas River are rivers, each a longer drive away. Those who like museums can head to the Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,924households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents 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, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cameron
- Cameron ISDSchool district247FTE
- Affordable Interior SystemsOffice furniture, padded, upholstered, or plain, manufacturing168
- Butler WeldmentsPatterns, industrial, manufacturing80
- Charlotte Pipe and Foundry PLTXPvc pipe manufacturing72
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores49
- Cameron I EnterprisesNursing homes45
- Arlan's MarketGrocery stores27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 441 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cameron’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 Milam County.
Cameron home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cameron$244,391
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Cameron 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.
- Cameron18.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cameron77
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Cameron9
Zip codes with a Cameron address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cameron — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.