Celeste, Texas.
Typical home $346,344 (+2.0% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$983 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,915 +2%
- $339,430$346,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,512 +16%
- $297,832$346,344 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.
- Celeste$1,818
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Celeste, TX rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas
Celeste is a city of 809 people in Hunt County. Unemployment in Hunt County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hunt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Celeste is a very small Texas city in Hunt County, with fewer people than most towns that carry the name of a city. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, and summers run very hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and professional and business services close behind. Across Hunt County, the largest workplaces include Hunt Regional Medical Center, Texas A & M University-Commerce and Greenville ISD. Commutes are long, and few people work from home, so most daily travel is to a job somewhere else.
Things to do. Clymer Meadow Preserve, a protected area, is a short drive away and suits a quiet walk among open prairie. A longer drive brings you to Lavon Lake, a reservoir, and to Bonham State Park, a protected area with its own lake. The Northeast Texas Trail is also a longer drive away for those who like to walk or ride along an old rail route.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 37 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Hunt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hunt County had 33,372 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 73°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Greenville Kgvl Radio weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hunt County
- L3Harris Technologies, Integrated Systems L.P. (Greenville)Aircraft conversions4,798
- Hunt Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,615FTE
- Texas A & M University-CommerceUniversity or college1,398
- Greenville ISDSchool district824FTE
- Caddo Mills ISDSchool district421FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters387
- Quinlan ISDSchool district382FTE
- SolvayTapes, varnished and coated, made from purchased fabric350
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 64 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,751 people in all across the county; Celeste has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Celeste’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 Hunt County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Celeste home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Celeste$346,344
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Celeste 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.
- Celeste34.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Celeste37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Celeste7
Zip codes with a Celeste address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Celeste — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.