Mesquite, Texas.
Typical home $256,597 (-2.1% in a year), asking rent $1,458 (+0.8%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$648 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,387 -2%
- $261,984$256,597 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,934 +10%
- $233,663$256,597 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.
- Mesquite$1,347
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Mesquite, TX fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Mesquite, TX rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Mesquite runs $502/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $779 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,960 a month against $1,458 rent: a $1,347 mortgage payment, plus $339 property tax and $275 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Mesquite
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$1,960
- Renting$1,458
- Mortgage only$1,347
Property tax · $339/mo 1.58% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Dallas County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $275/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 Mesquite, Dallas County, Texas
Mesquite is a city of 150,108 people in Dallas County. Half its households earn more than $72,537 a year and half less, against $76,547 across Dallas County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Mesquite was 4.5% in August 2026, and Dallas County had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Mesquite is a large city in Dallas County, and one of the bigger places in the Dallas area. Its residents are younger than the typical American, and most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the picture too. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Mesquite ISD, the local school district, is among the largest workplaces in town, along with the delivery company UPS and the soft drink maker PepsiCo. Commutes are on the long side, which fits a city where many people travel across the metroplex for work, and only a modest number work from home.
Things to do. Lake Ray Hubbard, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the closest of the nearby places for time on the water. A longer drive brings you to the Dallas Museum of Art and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, both museums in the city of Dallas. Sports fans can also make the longer drive to AT&T Stadium.
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- 50,171households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 1,829,643 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ferris weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mesquite
- Mesquite ISDSchool district5,720FTE
- Mesquite ModulesPhotovoltaic devices, solid-state, manufacturing1,673
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,319
- FedExCourier and express delivery services880
- PepsiCoSoft drink manufacturing860
- Galindo & Boyd Wall SystemsRetaining wall, masonry, construction800
- Ashley Furniture - MesquiteUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing630
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters471
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,965 people in all. 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of MesquiteRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mesquite’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 Dallas County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Mesquite home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mesquite$256,597
- 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 3 Mesquite listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — 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.
- Mesquite31.68%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Mesquite29
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mesquite513
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mesquite126
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Mesquite$257,370
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Mesquite98.04%
Zip codes with a Mesquite address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mesquite — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Mesquite
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75150 | Mesquite | 62,738 | $1,297 | $248,356 |
| 75149 | Mesquite | 58,262 | $1,835 | $233,380 |
| 75181 | Mesquite | 29,788 | $2,619 | $313,755 |