Mason, Texas.
Typical home $328,454 (-1.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$928 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,948 -1%
- $332,402$328,454 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,963 +13%
- $290,491$328,454 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.
- Mason$1,724
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Mason, TX fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mason, Mason County, Texas
Mason is a city of 2,121 people in Mason County. Half its households earn more than $75,385 a year and half less, against $74,180 across Mason County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Mason County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mason County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mason is a small city in the Texas Hill Country and the seat of Mason County. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than in many places of its size. Homes here are valued well above what most of the country would expect for a town this small, and winters are mild and brief, with summers that turn very hot in August and a modest amount of rain and melted snow across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in professional and business services, or in the building trades. Across Mason County, the largest workplaces are Mason ISD and PAY and Save, a grocery store business. Unemployment in the county is a touch lower than a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than the year before, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Fort Mason is a museum in or beside town, and Honey Creek is a river a short drive away. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area, a protected area, is a longer drive away, and so is Brady Creek Reservoir, for time by the water.
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- 826households
- 4%below the poverty line
- 4%work from home
What people in Mason County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mason County had 1,110 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 70°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mason weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mason County
- Mason ISDSchool district116FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 30 people in all across the county; Mason has two 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
- LightningVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Mason’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 Mason County.
Mason home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mason$328,454
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Mason listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Mason13.66%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mason61
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mason address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mason — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.