Enchanted Oaks, Texas.
Typical home $529,778 (+0.8% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,536 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,281 +1%
- $525,498$529,778 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,308 +9%
- $486,471$529,778 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.
- Enchanted Oaks$2,781
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Enchanted Oaks, TX rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Enchanted Oaks, Henderson County, Texas
Enchanted Oaks is a town of 347 people in Henderson County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Enchanted Oaks is a very small town in Henderson County, Texas, where residents are older than in most places and nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Typical home values here run high for the area, and fewer residents live in poverty than in many towns. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot, with August the warmest. Rain and a little melted snow fall steadily through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Henderson County, the largest workplaces include Argon Medical Devices, which makes needles and syringes, Trinity Valley Community College and Athens ISD. The county has added jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is unchanged from a year ago.
Things to do. Cedar Creek Reservoir and Purtis Creek State Park are both a short drive away, the first for time on the water and the second a protected area for walking and outdoor days. A longer drive brings you to the East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society, a botanical garden in the nearby countryside.
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- 37%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 20,065 jobs in 2025, 2.7% 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 95° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Athens weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Argon Medical DevicesHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing552
- Trinity Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college537
- Athens ISDSchool district437FTE
- UT Heath AthensGeneral hospital411FTE
- Brownsboro ISDSchool district402FTE
- BiomericsCatheters manufacturing347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,132 people in all across the county; Enchanted Oaks has none 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Enchanted Oaks’ 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 Henderson County and the Athens, TX metro.
Enchanted Oaks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Enchanted Oaks$529,778
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Enchanted Oaks 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.
- Enchanted Oaks29.17%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Enchanted Oaks21
Zip codes with a Enchanted Oaks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Enchanted Oaks — 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.