Centerville, Texas.
Typical home $290,714 (-3.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$613 (+67%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,351 -3%
- $301,066$290,714 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $3,264 -1%
- $293,979$290,714 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.
- Centerville$1,526
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Centerville, TX fell 3.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Centerville, Leon County, Texas
Centerville is a city of 905 people in Leon County. Half its households earn more than $52,697 a year and half less, against $61,449 across Leon County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Leon County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 5.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Leon County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Centerville is a very small city and the seat of Leon County, in East Texas. Household incomes here run below the county's, and homes are valued well above what the local incomes might suggest. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, so the year is warm for most of its length, with steady rain through it.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, the building trades and shops close behind. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small group work from home. Across Leon County, some of the largest workplaces are Nucor Steel Jewett, Buffalo ISD and Centerville ISD, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Neches River National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, lies in or beside town. Fort Boggy State Park is a short drive away, and Lake Limestone, a reservoir, is a longer drive.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What people in Leon County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Leon County had 6,189 jobs in 2025, 5.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 42 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Centerville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Leon County
- R Construction CompanyOil and gas field services on a contract basis754
- A. L. HelmcampPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction567
- Nucor Steel JewettBars, iron, made in iron and steel mills458
- Buffalo ISDSchool district177FTE
- NRGPower generation, fossil fuel, electric150
- Centerville ISDSchool district122FTE
- Leon ISDSchool district116FTE
- Normangee ISDSchool district113FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,254 people in all across the county; Centerville has one 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
- DroughtVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Centerville’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 Leon County.
Centerville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Centerville$290,714
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Centerville 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.
- Centerville25.41%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Centerville30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Centerville5
Zip codes with a Centerville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Centerville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.