Milano, Texas.
Typical home $377,201 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$547 (+38%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $7,706 +2%
- $369,494$377,201 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.
- Milano$1,980
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Milano, TX rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Milano, Milam County, Texas
Milano is a city of 390 people in Milam County. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Milam County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Milam County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Milano is a very small city in Milam County, Texas, where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are worth a good deal more than incomes in the county would suggest, and only a small share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with very little snow and a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Milam County, some of the largest workplaces are Mine Service, which does dirt moving for construction, Rockdale ISD, and Walmart. Hardly anyone works from home, and the typical commute is a short drive by car.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Brushy Creek is a river and Granger Lake is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Lake Bryan, also a longer drive away, is another lake to head for on a warm day. Travis Field, a stadium, is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 22 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Milam County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Milam County had 6,149 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 39 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cameron weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milam County
- Mine ServiceDirt moving for construction347
- IEA Construction - Sypert BranchAlternative energy structure construction336
- Perry & Perry BuildersIron work, structural, contractors300
- Rockdale ISDSchool district293FTE
- Cameron ISDSchool district247FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters180
- Affordable Interior SystemsOffice furniture, padded, upholstered, or plain, manufacturing168
- Thorndale ISDSchool district105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,810 people in all across the county; Milano has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Milano’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 Milam County.
Milano home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Milano$377,201
- 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.
- Milano17
Zip codes with a Milano address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Milano — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.