Van Alstyne, Texas.
Typical home $421,760 (-3.1% in a year), asking rent $1,718 . Sherman-Denison, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,131 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $13,345 -3%
- $435,105$421,760 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,487 +11%
- $379,273$421,760 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.
- Van Alstyne$2,214
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Van Alstyne, TX fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Van Alstyne, Grayson County, Texas
Van Alstyne is a city of 4,369 people in Grayson County. Half its households earn more than $102,469 a year and half less, against $72,182 across Grayson County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Grayson County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Grayson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Van Alstyne is a small city in Grayson County, Texas, with a population that has grown to the point where it is no longer just a rural crossroads. Residents are somewhat younger than in many older towns, and household incomes run well above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are on the higher side. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest weather in January, while summers are very hot, and August is the warmest month.
Work. People who live in Van Alstyne work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Grayson County, some of the biggest workplaces are Texoma Medical Center, Tyson Fresh Meats and Sherman ISD. The commute is on the long side, which suggests many residents travel some distance for work, and unemployment across the county has stayed close to where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For a day out, Lake Texoma is a large reservoir a longer drive away, well known for boating and fishing. Southfork Ranch, also a longer drive away, is a museum tied to the television series Dallas. Bonham State Park is a protected area of woods and water that is likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 2,141households
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
What people in Grayson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grayson County had 52,998 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mckinney Municipal Airport weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grayson County
- Texoma Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,899FTE
- Tyson Fresh MeatsMeat processed from carcasses1,845
- Sherman ISDSchool district1,199FTE
- Ruiz Foods ProductMexican foods, frozen, manufacturing980
- Denison ISDSchool district631FTE
- Texas InstrumentsSemiconductor devices manufacturing608
- Grayson CollegeUniversity or college607
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage442
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,802 people in all across the county; Van Alstyne has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Van Alstyne’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 Grayson County and the Sherman-Denison, TX metro.
Van Alstyne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Van Alstyne$421,760
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Van Alstyne listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Van Alstyne32.91%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Van Alstyne165
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Van Alstyne26
Zip codes with a Van Alstyne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Van Alstyne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.