Dawson, Texas.
Typical home $184,319 (+4.7% in a year). Corsicana, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$483 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,314 +5%
- $176,006$184,319 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $21,626 +13%
- $162,694$184,319 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.
- Dawson$967
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Dawson, TX rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dawson, Navarro County, Texas
Dawson is a town of 815 people in Navarro County. Unemployment in Navarro County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Navarro County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dawson is a very small town in Navarro County, Texas, with a population well under what most people would picture for a town. Home values here are modest, and the county's household incomes sit near the middle of what is typical for the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the daily drive to work is on the long side.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Navarro County, some of the largest workplaces are Corsicana ISD, Navarro College and Navarro Regional Hospital. Jobs in the county grew a little last year, though unemployment is slightly higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. Navarro Mills Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the nearest spot for time on the water. Farther afield, Fort Parker State Park is a protected area with room to walk and camp, and Texas Motorplex is a race track for those who like motorsport. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, and summers are hot, so spring and fall are easy seasons for getting outdoors.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 36 mintypical commute
What people in Navarro County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Navarro County had 16,809 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 41 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Navarro Mills Dam weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Navarro County
- Corsicana ISDSchool district849FTE
- Watkins ConstructionPipeline construction on oil and gas field gathering lines to point of distribution on a contract basis832
- Navarro CollegeUniversity or college751
- Russell Stover Chocolates LLC CorsicanaCandy manufacturing417
- Navarro Regional HospitalGeneral hospital325FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- Kohl's253
- H-E-BRetail234
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,764 people in all across the county; Dawson has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dawson’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 Navarro County and the Corsicana, TX metro.
Dawson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dawson$184,319
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dawson10
Zip codes with a Dawson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dawson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.