Midway, Texas.
Typical home $336,378 (+0.6% in a year). Huntsville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$986 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,086 +1%
- $334,292$336,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $52,127 +18%
- $284,251$336,378 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.
- Midway$1,766
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Midway, TX rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midway, Madison County, Texas
Midway is a city of 173 people in Madison County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midway is a very small city in Madison County, Texas, with a population that stays well below what most people would expect of a place called a city. Homes here are valued above what is typical for many small Texas towns, and the poverty rate is low. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month and the year bringing a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, farming and professional and business services also employing many. Across Madison County, some of the biggest workplaces are Monterey Mushrooms, Texas Pride Trailers and the Madisonville school district. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the number of jobs has grown, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The best known places nearby are Bedias Creek, a river, and Fort Boggy State Park, a protected area, both a longer drive away. The Neches River National Wildlife Refuge, also a protected area, is another longer drive away for those who like to spend time outdoors.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 44 mintypical commute
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, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madison County
- Monterey Mushrooms, LLC. - Madisonville, TxMushroom farming510
- Texas Pride TrailersTruck trailer manufacturing400
- Madisonville CisdSchool district322FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores104
- HilongPowder coating metals and metal products for the trade84
- 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: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,306 people in all across the county; Midway has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Midway’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 Madison County and the Huntsville, TX metro.
Midway home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midway$336,378
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Midway 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.
- Midway14.51%
- United States26.36%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Midway21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Midway address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midway — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.