Rising Star, Texas.
Typical home $159,299 (+3.4% in a year). Brownwood, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$136 (+19%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,173 +3%
- $154,126$159,299 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.
- Rising Star$836
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rising Star, TX rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rising Star, Eastland County, Texas
Rising Star is a town of 756 people in Eastland County. Half its households earn more than $37,037 a year and half less, against $53,549 across Eastland County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Eastland County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Eastland 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rising Star is a very small Texas town, home to fewer people than most places of its kind. Household incomes run well below the county's, and homes here cost less than in many parts of the country. Winters are mild and brief, with almost no snow, and summers turn hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and restaurants and hotels close behind. Across Eastland County, some of the largest workplaces are Cisco College, Ranger College and Walmart. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, most people have a short trip to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. The closest outings are all a longer drive away. The Robert E. Howard Museum is the best known, and Lake Brownwood is a reservoir with a state park of its own beside it. Lake Leon is another reservoir for anyone who wants time on the water.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Eastland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Eastland County had 5,756 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 31°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 69°. About 1 inches of snow and 31 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rising Star 1S weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eastland County
- Cisco CollegeTwo-year college276
- Ranger CollegeTwo-year college234
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters191
- Eastland ISDSchool district168FTE
- Flying A Pumping ServicesHydraulic fracturing wells on a contract basis161
- Cisco ISDSchool district152FTE
- Eastland Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital149FTE
- Gorman Milling Co., Inc. / MillLivestock feeds, supplements, concentrates and premixes, manufacturing99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 885 people in all across the county; Rising Star has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rising Star’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Eastland County and the Brownwood, TX metro.
Rising Star home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rising Star$159,299
- 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.
- Rising Star11
Zip codes with a Rising Star address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rising Star — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.