Mount Pleasant, Texas.
Typical home $221,445 (-1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,592 . Mount Pleasant, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$585 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,364 -1%
- $224,809$221,445 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,566 +10%
- $201,879$221,445 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 Pleasant$1,162
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Mount Pleasant, TX fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Texas
Mount Pleasant is a city of 16,047 people in Titus County. Half its households earn more than $50,515 a year and half less, against $58,425 across Titus County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Titus County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Pleasant is a small city and the seat of Titus County in northeast Texas. It is a young town, with a median age well below what older homeowners may expect, and incomes here run below the county's as a whole. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good share of households rent, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers are hot and the year is fairly wet.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in Mount Pleasant are Mount Pleasant ISD, Diamond C Trailers and Walmart. Across Titus County, unemployment has held steady over the past year and the number of jobs has grown a little. The typical commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, a protected area, and Big Cypress Creek, a river, are both a short drive away. Lake Monticello, a reservoir, is also close by. The Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum is a longer drive away for a day out.
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- 5,584households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Titus County had 17,991 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Pleasant weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mount Pleasant
- Mount Pleasant ISDSchool district837FTE
- Diamond C TrailersTruck trailer manufacturing668
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters350
- Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation98
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers95
- Wood Air ConditioningCentral air-conditioning equipment installation87
- Mt Pleasant V EnterprisesSkilled nursing facilities85
- Focused Care at Mt PleasantContinuing care retirement communities82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,768 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mount Pleasant’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 Titus County and the Mount Pleasant, TX metro.
Mount Pleasant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mount Pleasant$221,445
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Mount Pleasant 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 Pleasant17.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mount Pleasant155
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mount Pleasant25
Zip codes with a Mount Pleasant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mount Pleasant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.