Cresson, Texas.
Typical home $423,616 (-2.1% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$865 (+64%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,226 -2%
- $432,843$423,616 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $60,487 -12%
- $484,103$423,616 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.
- Cresson$2,223
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Cresson, TX fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cresson, Parker County, Texas
Cresson is a city of 1,349 people in Parker County. Half its households earn more than $91,518 a year and half less, against $104,443 across Parker County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Parker County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Parker County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cresson is a small Texas city in Parker County, with a young population for a place its size and more homes lived in by their owners than renters. Household incomes run below the county's, and typical home values are high. Winters are mild and short, summers are hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Some of the largest workplaces in Cresson itself are Titan Ready Mix, Star Step Trinkote Coatings and Henson Building Materials. Parker County has seen job growth over the past year, and unemployment there is unchanged from a year earlier.
Things to do. MotorSport Ranch, a race track, is in or beside town, and Acton State Historic Site, a protected area, is a short drive away. Dinosaur Valley State Park, another protected area, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are a longer drive away.
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- 401households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 11%work from home
What people in Parker County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Parker County had 42,861 jobs in 2025, 3.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Granbury 5N weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cresson
- Titan Ready MixReady-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing64
- Star Step Trinkote CoatingsIndustrial product finishes and coatings manufacturing28
- Henson Building MaterialsLumber retailing yards23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 115 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of CressonRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of CressonRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cresson’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 Parker County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Cresson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cresson$423,616
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Cresson 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.
- Cresson27.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Cresson28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cresson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cresson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.