Round Top, Texas.
Typical home $1,138,108 (-4.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,732 (+166%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $50,190 -4%
- $1,188,298$1,138,108 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $183,634 +19%
- $954,474$1,138,108 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.
- Round Top$5,974
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Round Top, TX fell 4.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Round Top, Fayette County, Texas
Round Top is a town of 87 people in Fayette County. Unemployment in Fayette County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fayette County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Round Top is a very small town in Fayette County, Texas, where people tend to know one another. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are very hot, and rain falls heavily over the year. Homes here are valued at high levels, and very few residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, manufacturing, shops, and the building trades. Few people here work from home. Across Fayette County, unemployment has edged up over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Fayette County Reservoir is a short drive away and offers a reservoir for water-based outings. Monument Hill and Kreische Brewery State Historic Sites, a longer drive away, is a museum site, and Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for outdoor walks.
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- 1%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Fayette County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fayette County had 9,376 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 74°. About 40 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the La Grange weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fayette County
- Dairy Farmers of America254
- La Grange ISDSchool district243FTE
- H-E-BRetail235
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters188
- Perdue FoodsDog and cat food manufacturing166
- Prime ProductsBottles, plastics, manufacturing125
- Schulenburg ISDSchool district121FTE
- Flatonia ISDSchool district105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,683 people in all across the county; Round Top 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Round Top’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 Fayette County.
Round Top home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Round Top$1,138,108
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Round Top 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.
- Round Top12.96%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Round Top31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Round Top address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Round Top — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.