Mount Enterprise, Texas.
Typical home $216,036 (+7.9% in a year). Longview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$550 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,739 +8%
- $200,297$216,036 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,788 +17%
- $184,248$216,036 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.
- Mount Enterprise$1,134
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Mount Enterprise, TX rose 7.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Enterprise, Rusk County, Texas
Mount Enterprise is a city of 505 people in Rusk County. Unemployment in Rusk County was 4.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rusk County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mount Enterprise is a very small East Texas city, with far fewer residents than most towns that have their own city government. Winters are mild and short, with snow a rare event, while summers run hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a good deal through the year. Incomes across Rusk County sit a little below those in many parts of the state, and a moderate share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Across Rusk County, some of the largest workplaces are VitalCaring Group, Henderson ISD and Sadlers Smokehouse. Most people drive to work, and a small number work from home.
Things to do. Martin Creek Lake State Park is the best known nearby place, a park with water for fishing and time outdoors, a longer drive away. Mast Arboretum, a botanical garden, and the Old Stone Fort Museum, a museum on the area's history, are also a longer drive away. For a day out with a historical bent, Millard's Crossing Historic Village is another museum a longer drive away.
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- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Rusk County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rusk County had 13,308 jobs in 2025, 1.6% 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 95° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Henderson weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rusk County
- VitalCaring GroupHome health agencies599
- Henderson ISDSchool district536FTE
- Sadlers SmokehouseCooked meats made from purchased carcasses470
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated348
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters275
- Tatum ISDSchool district229FTE
- Merico Abatement Contractors Inc - Luminant Power Plant- Martin LakeSpecialty trade contractors225
- Luminant Generation CompanyElectric power generation, fossil fuel201
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,722 people in all across the county; Mount Enterprise has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Enterprise’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 Rusk County and the Longview, TX metro.
Mount Enterprise home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Enterprise$216,036
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Mount Enterprise 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.
- Mount Enterprise19.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Enterprise21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Mount Enterprise address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Enterprise — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.