Flatonia, Texas.
Typical home $435,686 (+0.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,204 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $237 +0%
- $435,449$435,686 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,309 +15%
- $379,377$435,686 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.
- Flatonia$2,287
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Flatonia, TX rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Flatonia, Fayette County, Texas
Flatonia is a town of 1,308 people in Fayette County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Flatonia is a small town in Fayette County, Texas, with a younger population than many small towns, though far fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than across the country. Homes carry a high typical value for a town this size. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run very hot, peaking in August, with a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, along with manufacturing, shops and the building trades. The largest workplaces in Flatonia are Flatonia ISD, Nexion Health Management and Cal-Maine Foods. Most people have a short commute, and some work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Palmetto State Park and Buescher State Park are protected areas, and the San Marcos River offers water to enjoy, all a longer drive away. Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites is a museum of local history, also a longer drive away.
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- 608households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 17 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
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 95° and lows near 71°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Flatonia 4SE weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Flatonia
- Flatonia ISDSchool district105FTE
- Nexion Health ManagementNursing homes70
- Cal-Maine FoodsCentralized administrative offices33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 103 people in all. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Flatonia’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.
Flatonia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Flatonia$435,686
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Flatonia 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.
- Flatonia18.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Flatonia35
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Flatonia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Flatonia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.