Eustace, Texas.
Typical home $294,029 (-3.3% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$783 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,966 -3%
- $303,994$294,029 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,855 +3%
- $285,173$294,029 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.
- Eustace$1,543
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Eustace, TX fell 3.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Eustace, Henderson County, Texas
Eustace is a city of 1,137 people in Henderson County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Eustace is a small city in Henderson County, in the wooded country of East Texas. Winters here are mild and cool, and summers are hot, with the warmest weather in August. Rain falls through the year, and homes in town are priced above what many people might expect for a place this size.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Henderson County, some of the largest workplaces are Argon Medical Devices, Trinity Valley Community College and Athens ISD. Only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Purtis Creek State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the outdoor places in the area. A longer drive brings you to Cedar Creek Reservoir and Lake Athens, both good for time on the water. The East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society, a botanical garden, is also a longer drive away.
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- 13%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
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, 15 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; Eustace has one 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 moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Eustace’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Eustace home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Eustace$294,029
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Eustace 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.
- Eustace34.43%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Eustace30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Eustace address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Eustace — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.