Livingston, Texas.
Typical home $190,386 (-4.1% in a year), asking rent $1,304 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$487 (+95%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,120 -4%
- $198,505$190,386 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,231 +7%
- $177,155$190,386 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.
- Livingston$999
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 48 years.
Typical home values in Livingston, TX fell 4.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Livingston, Polk County, Texas
Livingston is a town of 5,640 people in Polk County. Half its households earn more than $48,841 a year and half less, against $62,259 across Polk County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Polk County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Livingston is a small East Texas town and the largest community in Polk County. Household incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are split about evenly between owners and renters, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, manufacturing, and banks, insurance and property. Few people work from home. Among the town's largest workplaces are Walmart, Sam Houston Electric Cooperative and The Bradford at Brookside, a nursing care facility. Across Polk County, unemployment is slightly lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. Lake Livingston State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Lake Livingston itself, a reservoir, and to Sam Houston National Forest, another protected area. Winters are mild and summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 2,419households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Polk County had 13,150 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more 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 96° and lows near 74°. About 51 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Livingston Nne weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Livingston
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters370
- Sam Houston Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power132
- The Bradford at Brookside623110 nursing care facilities111
- H-E-BRetail102
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores70
- LivingstonMail and parcel delivery53
- Bluebird Medical EnterprisesEmergency medical transportation services, air or ground34
- Discount TireTire dealers28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 951 people in all. 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
- LightningVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Livingston’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 Polk County.
Livingston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Livingston$190,386
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Livingston listings, and the typical home goes pending in 93 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Livingston21.16%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Livingston93
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Livingston295
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Livingston31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Livingston$285,174
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Livingston95.23%
Zip codes with a Livingston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Livingston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.