Wills Point, Texas.
Typical home $249,865 (-0.5% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$661 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,169 -0%
- $251,034$249,865 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,992 +8%
- $231,873$249,865 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.
- Wills Point$1,311
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 46 years.
Typical home values in Wills Point, TX fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wills Point, Van Zandt County, Texas
Wills Point is a city of 3,747 people in Van Zandt County. Half its households earn more than $71,919 a year and half less, against $69,475 across Van Zandt County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Van Zandt County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wills Point is a small Texas city in Van Zandt County where people tend to be of middle age and most live in homes they own. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though a fair number of residents still live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is less common here than in many places. Winters are mild and cool, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in shops, and in restaurants and hotels. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Wills Point ISD, Brazos Trailers, which makes semi-trailers, and Brookshire's, a grocery store. Commutes are long compared with much of the country, which suggests many people travel out of town for work, and only a few work from home.
Things to do. Lake Tawakoni, a reservoir, and Lake Tawakoni State Park are both a short drive away, as is the Sabine River, so water and open air are close at hand. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Purtis Creek State Park, another protected area with its own lake setting.
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- 1,384households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Van Zandt County had 12,908 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 73°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wills Pt weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wills Point
- Wills Point ISDSchool district403FTE
- Brazos TrailersSemi-trailer manufacturing114
- Crestwood Health and Rehabilitation CenterSkilled nursing facilities107
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers81
- R&R MillworkPanel work, wood millwork, manufacturing49
- Chip Miller PlumbingPlumbing contractors48
- Wills PointMail and parcel delivery23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 422 people in all. 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wills Point’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 Van Zandt County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Wills Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wills Point$249,865
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Wills Point 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.
- Wills Point30.80%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wills Point102
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wills Point18
Zip codes with a Wills Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wills Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.