Carmine, Texas.
Typical home $582,052 (-5.4% in a year). Brenham, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,604 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $33,441 -5%
- $615,493$582,052 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,918 +6%
- $549,135$582,052 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.
- Carmine$3,055
- 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 Carmine, TX fell 5.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Carmine, Fayette County, Texas
Carmine is a city of 244 people in Fayette County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Carmine is a very small city, with a population far smaller than most towns in Texas. Nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are high for a place this size. Very few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also common. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Dairy Farmers of America, LA Grange ISD and H-E-B. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway is a protected area for outdoor time, a longer drive away. Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites, also a longer drive away, is a museum site for anyone interested in the region's history. Buescher State Park, another protected area, is a longer drive away as well. Winters are mild with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
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- 1%below the poverty line
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 9,376 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 70°. About 41 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Somerville Dam weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Dairy Farmers of America254
- La Grange ISDSchool district243FTE
- H-E-BRetail235
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters188
- Perdue FoodsDog and cat food manufacturing166
- Prime ProductsBottles, plastics, manufacturing125
- Schulenburg ISDSchool district121FTE
- Flatonia ISDSchool district105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,683 people in all across the county; Carmine has none 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Carmine’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 Fayette County and the Brenham, TX metro.
Carmine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carmine$582,052
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 17 Carmine 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Carmine20
Zip codes with a Carmine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carmine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.