Lexington, Texas.
Typical home $407,377 (+1.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,148 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,761 +1%
- $401,616$407,377 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,932 +17%
- $349,445$407,377 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.
- Lexington$2,138
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Lexington, TX rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lexington, Lee County, Texas
Lexington is a town of 1,217 people in Lee County. Half its households earn more than $56,354 a year and half less, against $76,371 across Lee County. Unemployment in Lee County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lexington is a small Texas town in Lee County, home to a close-knit community where most people know one another. Household incomes here run below the county's, while the typical home is valued well above what those incomes might suggest. Few adults hold a four-year degree compared with many places, and the town's roots are in the working trades.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government and the building trades close behind. Across Lee County, some of the largest workplaces are MasTec, Inc./Pumpco, Altman Specialty Plants and Giddings ISD. The typical commute is long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Water and woodland are the main draws, though each is a longer drive away. Lake Bastrop is a lake, and Bastrop State Park is a protected area with trails and shade. Somerville Lake is a reservoir that suits a day on the water, and winters are mild with little or no snow, while summers turn very hot by August.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 38 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lee County had 8,011 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 38 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lexington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lee County
- MasTec, Inc./PumpcoPipeline, gas and oil, construction1,923
- Altman Specialty PlantsFlorist's supplies merchant wholesalers963
- Giddings ISDSchool district252FTE
- Lexington ISDSchool district163FTE
- KaemarkInstitutional furniture manufacturing128
- Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Giddings CampusDistribution of electric power118
- WalmartDiscount department stores106
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores93
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,830 people in all across the county; Lexington has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Lexington’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 Lee County.
Lexington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lexington$407,377
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lexington 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.
- Lexington21.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lexington42
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Lexington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lexington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.