Fayetteville, Texas.
Typical home $577,106 (-2.3% in a year). Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,571 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,313 -2%
- $590,419$577,106 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,784 +8%
- $536,322$577,106 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.
- Fayetteville$3,029
- 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 Fayetteville, TX fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fayetteville, Fayette County, Texas
Fayetteville is a city of 246 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $73,250 a year and half less, against $75,854 across Fayette County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 91% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 9% are rented. Unemployment in Fayette County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fayetteville is a very small Texas city, with few people living there, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what many small Texas towns see. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are long and hot, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Fayette County, some of the largest workplaces are Dairy Farmers of America, LA Grange ISD and H-E-B. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little higher than a year ago. A typical commute is short, about what you would expect in a small town.
Things to do. Fayette County Reservoir is a short drive away, a good spot for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites, a museum site with a look back at the region's past. Also a longer drive away, Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for those who enjoy wildlife and open country.
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- 141households
- 2%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 9,376 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 74°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the La Grange weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Dairy Farmers of America254
- La Grange ISDSchool district243FTE
- H-E-BRetail235
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters188
- Perdue FoodsDog and cat food manufacturing166
- Prime ProductsBottles, plastics, manufacturing125
- Schulenburg ISDSchool district121FTE
- Flatonia ISDSchool district105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,683 people in all across the county; Fayetteville 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fayetteville’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 Fayette County and the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX metro.
Fayetteville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fayetteville$577,106
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Fayetteville 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.
- Fayetteville17.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fayetteville25
Zip codes with a Fayetteville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fayetteville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.