La Grange, Texas.
Typical home $375,855 (-5.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$978 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $21,033 -5%
- $396,889$375,855 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,479 +6%
- $353,377$375,855 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.
- La Grange$1,973
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 56 years.
Typical home values in La Grange, TX fell 5.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in La Grange, Fayette County, Texas
La Grange is a city of 4,391 people in Fayette County. Half its households earn more than $53,547 a year and half less, against $75,854 across Fayette County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. 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 residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. La Grange is a small city and the seat of Fayette County, in Texas. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and more people rent than across much of the county. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, manufacturing, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in town are the school district, H-E-B and Fayette Electric Cooperative. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites is a museum in or beside town. Fayette County Reservoir is a short drive away, and Buescher State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away. The Old Stafford Opera House, a theatre, is also a longer drive.
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- 1,970households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents 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 97° 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 La Grange weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in La Grange
- La Grange ISDSchool district243FTE
- H-E-BRetail235
- Fayette Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power47
- Dimension Energy ServicesCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction30
- La GrangeMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 333 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 wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively 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 La Grange’s 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 Fayette County.
La Grange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Grange$375,855
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 La Grange listings — 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.
- La Grange16.49%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Grange90
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Grange10
Zip codes with a La Grange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Grange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.