Tye, Texas.
Typical home $135,941 (+5.3% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$344 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,889 +5%
- $129,052$135,941 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,714 +6%
- $128,226$135,941 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.
- Tye$714
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Tye, TX rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tye, Taylor County, Texas
Tye is a city of 1,176 people in Taylor County. 82% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 18% are rented. Unemployment in Taylor County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taylor 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tye is a small city where most people own the homes they live in, and the typical home is valued modestly. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the poverty rate is lower than one might expect for a town of its size. Winters are cool and mild, with very little snow, and summers turn hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in professional and business services. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a short one. Among the larger workplaces in Tye are J.H.Strain and Sons, a highway construction firm, Cypress Truck Lines, a local motor freight carrier, and Safe Charters, which runs bus charters.
Things to do. A short drive away are Kirby Lake, a reservoir, and The Grace Museum. The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, also a museum, is a short drive off too. For a day out, Abilene Zoological Gardens is a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Taylor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taylor County had 68,821 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 4 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Abilene Regional Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tye
- J.H.Strain and SonsHighway construction130
- Cypress Truck LinesMotor freight carrier, general, local63
- Safe ChartersBus charter services55
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 248 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tye’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 Taylor County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Tye home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tye$135,941
- 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.
- Tye7
Zip codes with a Tye address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tye — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.