Jacksonville, Texas.
Typical home $211,492 (+0.6% in a year). Jacksonville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$653 (+143%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,219 +1%
- $210,274$211,492 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $41,198 +24%
- $170,294$211,492 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.
- Jacksonville$1,110
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Jacksonville, TX rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas
Jacksonville is a city of 13,997 people in Cherokee County. Half its households earn more than $51,375 a year and half less, against $61,261 across Cherokee County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jacksonville is a city in Cherokee County, in East Texas. It is a younger town than many, with a lower median age than most places, and incomes that run below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters make up a real part of the town, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Jacksonville are Jacksonville ISD, Cardinal Health and Walmart. The typical commute is moderate, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Jacksonville Baseball Complex, a stadium, is in or beside town. A short drive away is Thunder Mountain Motor Speedway, a race track. Farther out, a longer drive takes you to Lake Palestine, a reservoir, or to Caldwell Zoo. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 4,807households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 14,947 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 48 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jacksonville weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jacksonville
- Jacksonville ISDSchool district829FTE
- Beall SGeneral warehousing and storage342
- Cardinal HealthHardware, plastics, manufacturing300
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters290
- Christus MFH - JacksonvilleCritical access hospital222FTE
- Federal Heath Sign Company-JacksonvilleElectrical signs manufacturing192
- Builder's BestSheet metal work manufacturing187
- UT Health East Texas JacksonvilleGeneral hospital138FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,428 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Jacksonville’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 Cherokee County and the Jacksonville, TX metro.
Jacksonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jacksonville$211,492
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Jacksonville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 37 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Jacksonville17.65%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jacksonville107
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jacksonville18
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jacksonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jacksonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.