Paige, Texas.
Typical home $436,072 (-2.9% in a year). Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,172 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,952 -3%
- $449,023$436,072 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,761 +6%
- $412,311$436,072 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.
- Paige$2,289
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 62 years.
Typical home values in Paige, TX fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paige, Bastrop County, Texas
Paige, in Bastrop County, had 278 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Bastrop County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bastrop 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paige is a very small community in Bastrop County, Texas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what many people expect for rural Texas, and the county's household incomes are comfortable, a fair bit higher than in much of the state's countryside.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Bastrop County, the largest workplaces include Space Exploration Technologies, Bastrop ISD and Elgin ISD. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has gained jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Lake Bastrop is a lake within a longer drive, and Bastrop State Park and Buescher State Park are protected areas for walking and time outdoors, also a longer drive away. Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites is a museum site for those who like local history, likewise a longer drive off. Winters are mild with little or no snow, and summers get very hot, so the cooler months suit outings best.
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What people in Bastrop County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bastrop County had 23,427 jobs in 2025, 3.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 73°. About 37 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Smithville weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bastrop County
- Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing3,528
- Bastrop ISDSchool district1,578FTE
- Space Exploration TechnologiesSatellite communications equipment manufacturing1,486
- Elgin ISDSchool district791FTE
- H-E-BRetail736
- Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and SpaAuslp533
- TCS MechanicalProcess piping installation435
- H-E-BRetail332
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 50 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,740 people in all across the county; Paige 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paige’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 Bastrop County and the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
Paige home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paige$436,072
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Paige 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.
- Paige24.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paige44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Paige4
Zip codes with a Paige address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paige — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.