Venus, Texas.
Typical home $323,026 (-2.3% in a year), asking rent $1,916 (+2.1%). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$831 (+96%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,531 -2%
- $330,557$323,026 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,899 +11%
- $291,127$323,026 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.
- Venus$1,695
- 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 Venus, TX fell 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Venus, TX rose 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Venus runs $460/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $651 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,376 a month against $1,916 rent: a $1,695 mortgage payment, plus $335 property tax and $346 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Venus
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,376
- Renting$1,916
- Mortgage only$1,695
Property tax · $335/mo 1.24% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Johnson County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $346/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Venus, Johnson County, Texas
Venus is a town of 4,361 people in Johnson County. Half its households earn more than $106,023 a year and half less, against $84,859 across Johnson County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Johnson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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. Venus is a small town in Johnson County, Texas, with a young population for the area and households that live on incomes well above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and renting is the less common way to live here. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers run hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and restaurants and hotels also employing a good number of people. Across Johnson County, some of the largest workplaces are Burleson ISD, Cleburne ISD and Sabre Industries. A four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults, and the typical commute is a long one, with only a few people working from home.
Things to do. Most outings from Venus mean a longer drive. AT&T Stadium is the best known place nearby, a stadium for big games and events, and the Trinity River offers a stretch of river to visit. Six Flags Over Texas is an amusement park, also a longer drive away, for days out with family.
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- 1,689households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnson County had 60,969 jobs in 2025, 1.7% 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 74°. About 41 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Waxahachie weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Johnson County
- Burleson ISDSchool district1,660FTE
- Cleburne ISDSchool district1,099FTE
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage910
- Joshua ISDSchool district858FTE
- Larrett Energy ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction830
- Sabre IndustriesFabricated structural metal manufacturing689
- Klein ToolsHardware, plastics manufacturing630
- H-E-BRetail605
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 116 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,557 people in all across the county; Venus 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Venus’ 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 Johnson County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Venus home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Venus$323,026
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Venus listings — 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.
- Venus36.14%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Venus46
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Venus12
Zip codes with a Venus address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Venus — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.