Lawn, Texas.
Typical home $178,312 (+6.1% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,318 +6%
- $167,994$178,312 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,659 +21%
- $147,653$178,312 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.
- Lawn$936
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Lawn, TX rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lawn, Taylor County, Texas
Lawn is a town of 311 people in Taylor County. Unemployment in Taylor County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taylor County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lawn is a very small town in Taylor County, Texas, with a population far smaller than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Homes here are valued below what is typical across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree compared with the wider population. Very few people work from home, so most residents head out to a job.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Across Taylor County, the largest workplaces include Hendrick Medical Center, Abilene ISD and Abilene Christian University. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the number of jobs there has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Jim Ned Creek is a river a short drive away, and it is the closest of the nearby outdoor spots. A longer drive brings you to Abilene State Park, a protected area, and to Buffalo Gap Historic Village, a museum. Winters are mild and only occasionally snowy, while summers run very hot, so spring and autumn suit time outdoors best.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Taylor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taylor County had 68,821 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 4 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Abilene Regional Airport weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taylor County
- Hendrick Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,467FTE
- Abilene ISDSchool district2,323FTE
- Abilene Christian UniversityUniversity or college1,134
- Wylie ISDSchool district667FTE
- Hendrick Health Service CenterBilling services560
- AbiMar FoodsSpecialty food stores530
- H-E-BRetail462
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters437
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 140 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,178 people in all across the county; Lawn has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lawn’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 Taylor County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Lawn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawn$178,312
- 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.
Zip codes with a Lawn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.