Milam, Texas.
Typical home $226,564 (+4.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$254 (+27%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $9,307 +4%
- $217,257$226,564 since Sep 2025
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.
- Milam$1,189
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Milam, TX rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milam, Sabine County, Texas
Milam, in Sabine County, had 1,355 people in the 2020 census. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Sabine County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sabine 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milam is a small community in Sabine County, in the piney woods of East Texas near the Louisiana line. Its residents are older than in most of the country, and nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls generously through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in government, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Sabine County, the largest workplaces include Pineland Lumber/ Log Studs, Hemphill ISD and Brookshire Brothers. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Sabine National Forest and North Toledo Bend State Park are both a short drive away, with woods and lakeside parkland to explore. Toledo Bend Reservoir lies a longer drive away and is a big reservoir popular for time on the water. Fort Jesup, a historic fort, is also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 10%of adults have a degree
What people in Sabine County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sabine County had 2,442 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 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Many weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sabine County
- Pineland Lumber/ Log Studs365
- Hemphill ISDSchool district152FTE
- West Sabine ISDSchool district101FTE
- Outreach Health ServicesHome care of elderly, medical91
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores68
- Preferred Hospital Leasing HemphillCritical access hospital61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 524 people in all across the county; Milam 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milam’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 Sabine County.
Milam home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milam$226,564
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Milam16
Zip codes with a Milam address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milam — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.