College Station, Texas.
Typical home $344,129 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,655 (-0.5%). College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$853 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,520 -0%
- $345,649$344,129 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $55,145 +19%
- $288,984$344,129 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.
- College Station$1,806
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in College Station, TX fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in College Station, TX fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in College Station runs $962/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,152 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,617 a month against $1,655 rent: a $1,806 mortgage payment, plus $443 property tax and $368 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — College Station
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,617
- Renting$1,655
- Mortgage only$1,806
Property tax · $443/mo 1.54% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Brazos County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $368/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in College Station, Brazos County, Texas
College Station is a city of 120,511 people in Brazos County. Half its households earn more than $50,900 a year and half less, against $58,553 across Brazos County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 35% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 65% are rented. Unemployment in College Station was 4.1% in August 2026, and Brazos County had 2.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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. College Station is a college town, and it shows in who lives here: residents are far younger than in most American cities, and most homes are rented rather than owned. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than in most places, which fits a town full of students. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and most people get to work without a long drive.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, shops, and professional and business services. Among the biggest employers in town are College Station ISD, Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies Texas and Baylor Scott & White Health. Across Brazos County there were more jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment in town is a little lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The George Bush Presidential Library, a museum, is a short drive away, as is Kyle Field, a stadium and a centerpiece of the town's game days. The D. A. "Andy" Anderson Arboretum, a botanical garden, sits in or beside town for a quieter walk. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 46,214households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Brazos County had 126,296 jobs in 2025, 2.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 75°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the College Station weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in College Station
- College Station ISDSchool district2,102FTE
- Fujiflm Diosynth Biotechnologies TexasVaccines manufacturing775
- Baylor Scott & White Health414
- CommonSpirit HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals404
- AccentCare, Inc.Home health care349
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters334
- Texas A & M University-System OfficeUniversity or college282
- Britt Rice ElectricElectrical contractors256
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 44 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,484 people in all. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in College Station’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Brazos County and the College Station-Bryan, TX metro.
College Station home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- College Station$344,129
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 College Station listings, and the typical home goes pending in 60 days — 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.
- College Station21.43%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- College Station60
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- College Station763
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- College Station141
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- College Station$335,357
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- College Station97.31%
Zip codes with a College Station address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls College Station — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in College Station
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77845 | College Station | 76,764 | $1,613 | $360,534 |
| 77840 | College Station | 54,864 | $1,848 | $286,872 |