Mexia, Texas.
Typical home $134,560 (-1.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$363 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,129 -2%
- $136,690$134,560 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,405 +13%
- $119,155$134,560 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.
- Mexia$706
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Mexia, TX fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mexia, Limestone County, Texas
Mexia is a city of 6,893 people in Limestone County. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Limestone County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then other services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mexia is a small Texas city in Limestone County, with a population that skews a little older than the national picture. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical, while most homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values sit well under what many buyers elsewhere in the country would expect, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, and summers are long and very hot.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by other services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Mexia are Mexia ISD, Walmart and Parkview Regional Hospital. Unemployment in the county is close to where it stood a year earlier, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. The typical commute is short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Fort Parker State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site, another protected area. Booker T. Washington Park is also a short drive away. For time on the water, Navarro Mills Lake, a reservoir, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,598households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 32%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Limestone County had 8,650 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mexia weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mexia
- Mexia ISDSchool district345FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Skilled Care of MexiaNursing homes111
- Parkview Regional HospitalGeneral hospital92FTE
- Swarco ReflexGlass making machinery manufacturing79
- Mexia HealthcareNursing homes70
- Frontier Waste SolutionsWaste collection services, nonhazardous solid42
- Oncor Electric Delivery CompanyDistribution of electric power22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 722 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
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Mexia’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 Limestone County.
Mexia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mexia$134,560
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mexia 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.
- Mexia24.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mexia65
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mexia10
Zip codes with a Mexia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mexia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.