Madisonville, Texas.
Typical home $244,649 (-2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$724 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,679 -3%
- $251,328$244,649 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,342 +22%
- $200,307$244,649 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.
- Madisonville$1,284
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Madisonville, TX fell 2.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Madisonville, Madison County, Texas
Madisonville is a city of 4,420 people in Madison County. Half its households earn more than $67,175 a year and half less, against $74,596 across Madison County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Madison County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madison 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Madisonville is a small city in Madison County, Texas, where the people who live there tend to be a little older than in many places. Household incomes in town run below the county's, and a good share of residents are living on tight budgets. Winters are mild and mostly snow-free, while summers bring real heat, peaking in August, and the rain through the year is steady and generous.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming and forestry, and in professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Madisonville include Madisonville Cisd Schools, Walmart and Brookshire Brothers. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment is slightly higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Fort Boggy State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Gibbons Creek Reservoir is a reservoir that sits a longer drive away as well. The Texas Prison Museum, also a longer drive away, is a museum for a rainy afternoon, and the mild winters leave plenty of cool, snow-free days for getting out.
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- 22%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What people in Madison County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madison County had 4,379 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madisonville weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madisonville
- Madisonville CisdSchool district322FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores104
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation83
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores79
- Madison St. Joseph Health CenterCritical access hospital61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 266 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Madisonville’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 Madison County.
Madisonville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Madisonville$244,649
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Madisonville listings — 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.
- Madisonville20.37%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Madisonville43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Madisonville8
Zip codes with a Madisonville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Madisonville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.