Thorndale, Texas.
Typical home $346,707 (+2.6% in a year). Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,748 +3%
- $337,959$346,707 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $16,764 +5%
- $329,943$346,707 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.
- Thorndale$1,820
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 70 years.
Typical home values in Thorndale, TX rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thorndale, Milam County, Texas
Thorndale is a city of 1,263 people in Milam County. Unemployment in Milam County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Milam 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thorndale is a small Texas city in Milam County, home to a small community where neighbors tend to know one another. Home values here run well above what the county's household incomes would suggest, and a typical household earns less across the county than the national picture. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot, with August the warmest month; rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops, and farming, forestry and mining. Across Milam County, the largest workplaces include Rockdale ISD, Cameron ISD and Walmart. Jobs across the county grew over the past year, and the typical trip to work is a moderate one.
Things to do. Granger Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield are Dell Diamond, a stadium, and Inner Space Cavern, a tourist attraction, each a longer drive. For a day outdoors, Brushy Creek and the Lampasas River are both rivers a longer drive away.
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- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Milam County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Milam County had 6,149 jobs in 2025, 2.1% 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 72°. About 35 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Granger Dam weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Milam County
- Mine ServiceDirt moving for construction347
- IEA Construction - Sypert BranchAlternative energy structure construction336
- Perry & Perry BuildersIron work, structural, contractors300
- Rockdale ISDSchool district293FTE
- Cameron ISDSchool district247FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters180
- Affordable Interior SystemsOffice furniture, padded, upholstered, or plain, manufacturing168
- Thorndale ISDSchool district105FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,810 people in all across the county; Thorndale 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
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thorndale’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 Milam County and the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX metro.
Thorndale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thorndale$346,707
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Thorndale 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.
- Thorndale22.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Thorndale27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Thorndale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thorndale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.