Yorktown, Texas.
Typical home $205,667 (-2.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$300 (+38%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,237 -2%
- $210,904$205,667 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $40,429 -16%
- $246,096$205,667 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.
- Yorktown$1,079
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Yorktown, TX fell 2.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Yorktown, DeWitt County, Texas
Yorktown is a city of 1,810 people in DeWitt County. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in DeWitt County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in DeWitt 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Yorktown is a small city in DeWitt County, Texas, and nearly everyone who lives there owns the home they live in, a much higher share of owners than in most places. Incomes in the surrounding county are modest, and poverty is more common than in many parts of the country. Few adults have a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot, especially in August.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing also providing jobs. Among the larger workplaces in Yorktown are Yorktown ISD, the school district, and Yorktown Nursing & Rehabilitation, a skilled nursing facility. Almost no one works from home, and the county's jobless rate has held steady over the past year.
Things to do. The area has a good deal of Texas history within a longer drive. Presidio La Bahía is a museum, and Goliad State Park and Historic Site is a protected area, both a longer drive away. For time on the water, Coleto Creek Reservoir is a reservoir that is also a longer drive from town.
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- 787households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in DeWitt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeWitt County had 6,959 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 74°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Cuero weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yorktown
- Yorktown ISDSchool district102FTE
- Yorktown Nursing & RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities46
- Pruitt's Frac Tanks South TexasTrucking, specialized freight, local32
- Yorktown Nursing and Rehab CenterSkilled nursing facilities31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 109 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Yorktown’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 DeWitt County.
Yorktown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yorktown$205,667
- 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.
- Yorktown10
Zip codes with a Yorktown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yorktown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.