Dime Box, Texas.
Typical home $349,349 (+1.6% in a year). College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$580 (+46%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,529 +2%
- $343,821$349,349 since Sep 2025
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.
- Dime Box$1,834
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dime Box, TX rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dime Box, Lee County, Texas
Dime Box, in Lee County, had 207 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lee County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dime Box is a very small community in Lee County, Texas, with far fewer people than most towns. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes here are typically worth more than the lowest-priced homes across the state. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, especially in August, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Lee County, some of the largest workplaces are MasTec, Inc./Pumpco, which does pipeline and construction work, Altman Specialty Plants, a wholesaler of florist's supplies, and Giddings ISD, a school district. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year earlier, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway is a protected area a longer drive away, and Somerville Lake, a reservoir, lies in the same direction. Buescher State Park, another protected area, is also a longer drive away. Each makes a day out rather than a quick trip.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 8,011 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- MasTec, Inc./PumpcoPipeline, gas and oil, construction1,923
- Altman Specialty PlantsFlorist's supplies merchant wholesalers963
- Giddings ISDSchool district252FTE
- Lexington ISDSchool district163FTE
- KaemarkInstitutional furniture manufacturing128
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Giddings CampusDistribution of electric power118
- WalmartDiscount department stores106
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,830 people in all across the county; Dime Box has one 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dime Box’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 Lee County and the College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
Dime Box home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dime Box$349,349
- 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.
- Dime Box11
Zip codes with a Dime Box address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dime Box — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.