Crawford, Texas.
Typical home $502,409 (+3.5% in a year). Waco, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,502 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,186 +4%
- $485,223$502,409 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $92,761 +23%
- $409,648$502,409 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.
- Crawford$2,637
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Crawford, TX rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crawford, McLennan County, Texas
Crawford is a town of 887 people in McLennan County. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in McLennan County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crawford is a very small Texas town, with far fewer people than most places and a quiet, close-knit feel. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, a good deal more than across the county, and typical home values here run high for a town this size. Fewer households live below the poverty line than you might expect, and winters are mild and almost snowless, while summers turn hot, particularly in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in shops. Across McLennan County, some of the biggest employers are Baylor University, Waco ISD and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center. The commute is a moderate one, and a share of people work from home. Across the county, unemployment has barely changed from a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The closest bigger draws lie a longer drive away, in and around Waco. Cameron Park Zoo is a zoo, Waco Mammoth National Monument is a protected area, and Waco Lake is a reservoir for time on the water. Each takes a longer drive from town.
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- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. McLennan County had 122,992 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcgregor weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in McLennan County
- Baylor UniversityUniversity or college4,153
- Waco ISDSchool district2,214FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,115
- Hillcrest Baptist Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,864FTE
- Texas State Technical CollegeTwo-year college1,716
- L3Harris AS IAS WacoAircraft conversions1,400
- Midway ISDSchool district1,263FTE
- Sanderson Farms Waco ProcessingPoultry processing1,164
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 237 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,655 people in all across the county; Crawford has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Crawford’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 McLennan County and the Waco, TX metro.
Crawford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crawford$502,409
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Crawford 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.
- Crawford25.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Crawford27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Crawford5
Zip codes with a Crawford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crawford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.