Taylor, Texas.
Typical home $276,586 (-3.0% in a year), asking rent $1,788 (-3.7%). Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$678 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,436 -3%
- $285,022$276,586 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $16,845 -6%
- $293,431$276,586 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.
- Taylor$1,452
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Taylor, TX fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Taylor, TX fell 3.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Taylor runs $331/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $558 in May 2024.
That is $2,119 a month against $1,788 rent: a $1,452 mortgage payment, plus $372 property tax and $296 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Taylor
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,119
- Renting$1,788
- Mortgage only$1,452
Property tax · $372/mo 1.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Williamson County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $296/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Taylor, Williamson County, Texas
Taylor is a city of 16,267 people in Williamson County. Half its households earn more than $75,508 a year and half less, against $111,340 across Williamson County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Williamson County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Taylor is a small city in Williamson County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run well below the county's, and the typical rent is high next to what many local households bring in. Residents are on the older side, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect in this part of the state.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Taylor are Scott and White Hospital Taylor, Taylor ISD and H-E-B. The typical commute is a fair one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Most of the better-known places nearby are a longer drive away. Q2 Stadium is a soccer stadium, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum is a presidential museum. Lady Bird Lake is a reservoir that suits a day out on the water. Winters are cool and mild with little or no snow, and summers are very hot, so outings tend to be most comfortable in the cooler months.
Report a mistake
- 6,575households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Williamson County had 238,420 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 37°; 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 Taylor 1NW weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Taylor
- Scott and White Hospital TaylorCritical access hospital547FTE
- Taylor ISDSchool district473FTE
- H-E-BRetail282
- Laboratory Tops Inc. (Durcon)Furniture, laboratory-type, manufacturing246
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters241
- Taylorcraft Cabinet DoorsCabinets, wood, manufacturing99
- Travis Association for the Blind493190 other warehousing and storage83
- Basler Electric Company - TaylorPower transformers, electric, manufacturing53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,334 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Hailrelatively high in parts of TaylorRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of TaylorRelatively moderate
- Cold 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 Taylor’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 Williamson County and the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
Taylor home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Taylor$276,586
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Taylor 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.
- Taylor27.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Taylor147
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Taylor25
Zip codes with a Taylor address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Taylor — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.