Wortham, Texas.
Typical home $195,898 (-0.1% in a year). Corsicana, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$507 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $105 -0%
- $196,003$195,898 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,138 +8%
- $181,760$195,898 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.
- Wortham$1,028
- 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 Wortham, TX fell 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wortham, Freestone County, Texas
Wortham is a town of 980 people in Freestone County. Unemployment in Freestone County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Freestone County work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wortham is a small Texas town in Freestone County, with fewer people than most towns its readers will know. The population is somewhat older than the national average, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Home values sit well below what is typical across much of the country, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with cool January days and August afternoons among the hottest in the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, then professional and business services and farming, forestry and mining. Across Freestone County, the largest workplaces include Fairfield ISD, Teague ISD and Brookshire Brothers. The typical commute is a short drive, and few people work from home. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Fort Parker State Park, a protected area a longer drive away. Navarro Mills Lake is a reservoir, also a longer drive away, and suits an outing by the water. Richland Creek is a river in the same longer-drive range, for those who prefer a quieter stretch of water.
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- 458households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Freestone County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Freestone County had 5,062 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 73°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mexia weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Freestone County
- Fairfield ISDSchool district275FTE
- TIC - The Industrial CompanyPower plant construction217
- Teague ISDSchool district199FTE
- TH EmploymentGolf and country clubs160
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores103
- Universal Delivery SolutionsDelivery service95
- Fairfield Nursing and RehabNursing homes92
- Wortham ISDSchool district85FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 960 people in all across the county; Wortham 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively 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 Wortham’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 Freestone County and the Corsicana, TX metro.
Wortham home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wortham$195,898
- 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.
- Wortham15
Zip codes with a Wortham address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wortham — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.