Hallettsville, Texas.
Typical home $334,808 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$842 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,645 +1%
- $330,163$334,808 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,162 +10%
- $305,646$334,808 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.
- Hallettsville$1,757
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 38 years.
Typical home values in Hallettsville, TX rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hallettsville, Lavaca County, Texas
Hallettsville is a city of 2,731 people in Lavaca County. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Lavaca County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hallettsville is a small city and the seat of Lavaca County in south Texas. Residents are older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes across Lavaca County are on the modest side, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in the country as a whole.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, banking and insurance, and retail also employing sizable numbers. The largest workplaces in town include Hallettsville ISD, Walmart and Hallettsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Jobs across the county slipped in the most recent year, though unemployment has held steady compared with a year earlier, and a typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. Peach Creek and Chicolete Creek are both rivers nearby, each a longer drive away. Winters are mild and almost free of snow, while summers get very hot, so cooler months suit time outdoors. Rainfall is moderate through the year.
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- 1,129households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lavaca County had 5,987 jobs in 2025, 2.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 75°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hallettsville North weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hallettsville
- Hallettsville ISDSchool district187FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores111
- Hallettsville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center107
- Stevens Nursing and Rehabilitation Center of Hallettsville90
- Hospice of South Texas - HallettsvilleHospice care services, in home25
- HallettsvilleMail and parcel delivery24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 357 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hallettsville’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Lavaca County.
Hallettsville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hallettsville$334,808
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hallettsville listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hallettsville18.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hallettsville74
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hallettsville9
Zip codes with a Hallettsville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hallettsville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hallettsville
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77964 | Hallettsville | 8,204 | — | $346,019 |
| 77475 | Sheridan | 431 | — | $233,430 |