Trenton, Texas.
Typical home $311,601 (-1.0% in a year). Bonham, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$870 (+114%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,053 -1%
- $314,655$311,601 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,615 +18%
- $264,986$311,601 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.
- Trenton$1,636
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Trenton, TX fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trenton, Fannin County, Texas
Trenton is a city of 743 people in Fannin County. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Fannin County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trenton is a very small city in Fannin County, Texas, where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Typical home values here sit well above what many people might expect for a town this size. Winters are mild and brief, with snow a rare sight, while summers turn hot and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in banks, insurance and property, with professional and business services close behind. Across Fannin County, some of the largest workplaces are the Veterans Health Administration, Bonham ISD and Clayton. Few adults hold a four-year degree, many commute a fair distance to work, and a good number work from home.
Things to do. Clymer Meadow Preserve, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Bonham State Park, another protected area, and to the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site, a museum. The Northeast Texas Trail, also a longer drive away, suits walking or cycling.
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- 268households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 30 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fannin County had 8,995 jobs in 2025, 3.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bonham 3NNE weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fannin County
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs704
- Bonham ISDSchool district307FTE
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing238
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters230
- Tongrun InternationalSheet meta manufacturing153
- Leonard ISDSchool district144FTE
- Honey Grove ISDSchool district125FTE
- Voluntary Purchasing GroupsFertilizers, mixed, made in plants producing nitrogenous fertilizer materials115
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,710 people in all across the county; Trenton has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trenton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Fannin County and the Bonham, TX metro.
Trenton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trenton$311,601
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 9 Trenton 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trenton19
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Trenton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trenton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.