Cross Timber, Texas.
Typical home $429,488 (+4.7% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,187 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,423 +5%
- $410,065$429,488 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $63,622 +17%
- $365,866$429,488 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.
- Cross Timber$2,254
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Cross Timber, TX rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cross Timber, Johnson County, Texas
Cross Timber is a town of 362 people in Johnson County. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cross Timber is a very small town in Johnson County, Texas, with a population among the smallest of any town in the state. Homes here are valued well above what the typical American home is worth, and household incomes across Johnson County are comfortable by national standards. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers get hot, with August the warmest month; rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing and the building trades. Across Johnson County, the largest workplaces include Burleson ISD, Cleburne ISD and Sabre Industries, a maker of fabricated structural metal. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly short drive, while jobs across the county grew slightly last year.
Things to do. Close to town, Village Creek is a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings the Fort Worth Zoo and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and Six Flags Over Texas is an amusement park within reach for a day out.
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- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Johnson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 60,969 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 37 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burleson weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Burleson ISDSchool district1,660FTE
- Cleburne ISDSchool district1,099FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage910
- Joshua ISDSchool district858FTE
- Larrett Energy ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction830
- Sabre IndustriesFabricated structural metal manufacturing689
- Klein ToolsHardware, plastics manufacturing630
- H-E-BRetail605
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 116 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,557 people in all across the county; Cross Timber has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively 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 Cross Timber’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 Johnson County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Cross Timber home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cross Timber$429,488
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Cross Timber address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cross Timber — 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.