Giddings, Texas.
Typical home $295,683 (-1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,095 -1%
- $299,778$295,683 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,433 +9%
- $272,250$295,683 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.
- Giddings$1,552
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Giddings, TX fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Giddings, Lee County, Texas
Giddings is a city of 4,969 people in Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lee County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Giddings is a small city in Lee County, Texas, and the kind of place where a good share of residents know one another. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in January still cool rather than harsh and snow rare or absent. Summers are hot, with August the warmest month, and rain falls fairly steadily through the year. Housing costs here sit well above what incomes in the county would suggest, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many parts of the country.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Giddings are MasTec, Inc./Pumpco, a pipeline and oil and gas construction firm, Giddings ISD, the local school district, and Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, which distributes electric power from its Giddings campus. Unemployment in Lee County is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are of moderate length, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway is a protected area a longer drive away, suited to walking and time by the water. Buescher State Park, also a protected area a longer drive away, offers another place to spend a day among the trees. For a different kind of outing, Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites is a museum and historic site, again a longer drive away. Each of these takes some planning, as none is close by.
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- 2,201households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Lee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 8,011 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Giddings
- MasTec, Inc./PumpcoPipeline, gas and oil, construction1,923
- Giddings ISDSchool district252FTE
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Giddings CampusDistribution of electric power118
- WalmartDiscount department stores106
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores93
- N Main St OpcoNursing homes68
- Cargill Animal Nutrition - GiddingsAnimal feed mills manufacturing38
- SLP OperationsSkilled nursing facilities24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,390 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Giddings’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Lee County.
Giddings home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Giddings$295,683
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Giddings 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.
- Giddings20.64%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Giddings42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Giddings6
Zip codes with a Giddings address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Giddings — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.