Fabens, Texas.
Typical home $165,088 (+9.7% in a year). El Paso, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$495 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,581 +10%
- $150,507$165,088 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,002 +34%
- $123,085$165,088 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.
- Fabens$867
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Fabens, TX rose 9.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fabens, El Paso County, Texas
Fabens, in El Paso County, had 7,498 people in the 2020 census. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in El Paso County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fabens is a small community in the Texas desert, with most homes lived in by their owners. Poverty is more common here than is typical, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers are very hot and the air is dry in the sense that rain and melted snow add up to very little over a year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Across El Paso County, the largest workplaces include El Paso ISD, Ysleta ISD and University Medical Center of El Paso. Commutes are fairly long and very few people work from home, so most jobs mean travelling out of town.
Things to do. The Presidio Chapel of San Elizario is a historic fort chapel a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Hueco Tanks, an archaeological site, and to the El Paso Zoo.
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- 1,800households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. El Paso County had 338,016 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 60° and lows near 28°; warmest in June, with highs near 98° and lows near 63°. About 2 inches of snow and 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tornillo Sse weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in El Paso County
- El Paso ISDSchool district7,261FTE
- Ysleta ISDSchool district5,878FTE
- Socorro ISDSchool district5,375FTE
- University Medical Center of El PasoGeneral hospital3,588FTE
- The University of Texas at El PasoUniversity or college3,048
- El Paso Community CollegeTwo-year college2,316
- Deployed ServicesFacilities support services2,237
- Las Palmas Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,112FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 515 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 75,905 people in all across the county; Fabens has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fabens’ 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 El Paso County and the El Paso, TX metro.
Fabens home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fabens$165,088
- 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.
- Fabens7
Zip codes with a Fabens address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fabens — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.