Italy, Texas.
Typical home $262,299 (+1.7% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$708 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,439 +2%
- $257,860$262,299 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,977 +13%
- $232,322$262,299 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.
- Italy$1,377
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Italy, TX rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Italy, Ellis County, Texas
Italy is a town of 1,926 people in Ellis County. Half its households earn more than $60,754 a year and half less, against $99,595 across Ellis County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Ellis County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Ellis 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Italy is a small town in Ellis County, Texas, with a population that keeps it close-knit. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and homes cost more than that income might suggest. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and professional and business services also common. Across Ellis County, some of the biggest workplaces are Waxahachie ISD, Target and Gerdau Midlothian. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. For time on the water, Lake Waxahachie and Lake Bardwell are both reservoirs a longer drive away. Texas Motorplex, a race track, is also a longer drive away, as is the Cold War Air Museum for those who like aircraft and history.
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- 715households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Ellis County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ellis County had 64,686 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° 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 Bardwell Dam weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ellis County
- Waxahachie ISDSchool district1,614FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores1,263
- Midlothian ISDSchool district1,229FTE
- Gerdau MidlothianMini-mills, steel1,149
- Red Oak ISDSchool district966FTE
- Ennis ISDSchool district815FTE
- Baylor SW Medical Center- WaxahachieGeneral hospital814FTE
- Dart Container WaxahachieFoam polystyrene products manufacturing791
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 169 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 23,755 people in all across the county; Italy has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Italy’s 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 Ellis County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Italy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Italy$262,299
- 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.
- Italy17
Zip codes with a Italy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Italy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Italy
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76670 | Milford | 1,963 | — | $249,467 |
| 76651 | Italy | 3,984 | — | $255,283 |