Combine, Texas.
Typical home $401,610 (+1.9% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,129 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,557 +2%
- $394,053$401,610 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $54,984 +16%
- $346,627$401,610 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.
- Combine$2,108
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Combine, TX rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Combine, Kaufman County, Texas
Combine is a city of 2,245 people in Kaufman County. Half its households earn more than $94,756 a year and half less, against $89,485 across Kaufman County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Kaufman County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Combine is a small city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a far higher share than is usual across the country. Household incomes run above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest days in January still cool rather than harsh, while summers turn hot by August and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, the building trades, schools, hospitals and social care, and shops. Across Kaufman County, some of the largest workplaces are Forney ISD, Amazon and Madix. The commute to work tends to be a long one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Dallas and its attractions lie a longer drive away, and they make a good day out. Among the best known are the Dallas Museum of Art, a museum, and the Dallas Zoo. Lake Ray Hubbard, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away for time on the water.
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- 814households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kaufman County had 45,719 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ferris weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kaufman County
- Forney ISDSchool district2,294FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage953
- MadixFixtures, store display, manufacturing942
- Crandall ISDSchool district875FTE
- Terrell State HospitalPsychiatric hospital845FTE
- Terrell ISDSchool district626FTE
- Mabank ISDSchool district560FTE
- Kaufman ISDSchool district548FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,712 people in all across the county; Combine has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Combine’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 Kaufman County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Combine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Combine$401,610
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 2 Combine 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.
- Combine44.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Combine20
Zip codes with a Combine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Combine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.