Evant, Texas.
Typical home $342,979 (+2.2% in a year). Killeen-Temple, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$918 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,317 +2%
- $335,661$342,979 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,577 +8%
- $318,401$342,979 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.
- Evant$1,800
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Evant, TX rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Evant, Hamilton County, Texas
Evant is a town of 455 people in Hamilton County. Unemployment in Hamilton County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hamilton County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Evant is a very small town in Hamilton County, Texas, where most people know one another by sight if not by name. Homes here are typically worth more than incomes in the area might suggest, since household incomes across Hamilton County sit below what is usual for the state. Winters are mild and brief, with cool days and nights that dip close to freezing, while summers turn hot, especially in August, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others employed in restaurants and hotels, the building trades, and shops. Across Hamilton County, the largest workplaces include Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton ISD and Hico ISD. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and the typical commute is a long one, so many people spend a good part of the day travelling to work.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Merritt is a reservoir a longer drive away, suited to a day by the water. Fort Gates, also a longer drive from town, is a historic fort for those who like local history. Both make for a full outing rather than a quick trip.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Hamilton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hamilton County had 2,829 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Evant 1SSW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hamilton County
- Hamilton General HospitalCritical access hospital385FTE
- Hamilton ISDSchool district137FTE
- Hico ISDSchool district91FTE
- Focused Care at HamiltonContinuing care retirement communities70
- CTLConstruction management, oil and gas pipeline68
- Jonesboro ISDSchool district56FTE
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores50
- Lee HealthCareHome health care agencies47
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 270 people in all across the county; Evant has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of EvantRelatively moderate
- Hailrelatively high in parts of EvantRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesrelatively high in parts of EvantRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Evant’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 Hamilton County and the Killeen-Temple, TX metro.
Evant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Evant$342,979
- 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.
- Evant16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Evant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Evant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.