Thornton, Texas.
Typical home $279,041 (-2.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$834 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,250 -2%
- $285,291$279,041 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,347 +15%
- $242,694$279,041 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.
- Thornton$1,465
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Thornton, TX fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Thornton, Limestone County, Texas
Thornton is a town of 421 people in Limestone County. Unemployment in Limestone County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Limestone 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Thornton is a very small town in Limestone County, Texas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and the summers are hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Across Limestone County, some of the largest workplaces are Mexia ISD, Walmart and Limestone Medical Center. The usual trip to work takes a fairly long time, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Fort Parker State Park is the best known nearby protected area, though it is a longer drive away. Lake Limestone, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away. Tehuacana Creek, a river, rounds out the nearby options for those who like to be near water.
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- 2%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Limestone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Limestone County had 8,650 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mexia weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Limestone County
- Mexia ISDSchool district345FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Groesbeck ISDSchool district248FTE
- Limestone Medical CenterCritical access hospital177FTE
- Frazier IndFoundries, iron160
- Carry-On MexiaTruck trailer manufacturing129
- H-E-BRetail116
- Skilled Care of MexiaNursing homes111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,692 people in all across the county; Thornton has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Thornton’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 Limestone County.
Thornton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Thornton$279,041
- 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.
- Thornton13
Zip codes with a Thornton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Thornton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.