The story of this market
The typical home in Abilene, Texas sells for about $293,000, or $158 per square foot.
Prices are up +14.8% from a year ago, so sellers still have some momentum. Homes take about 36 days to sell. HUD's fair market rent for a two-bedroom is $1,350 a month.
Monthly price momentum
Home values since 2015
+1.1%
TX · past 12 months
Freddie Mac House Price Index, single-family homes, monthly through 2026-08. Each line starts at 100 in January 2015, so a reading of 180 means prices are up 80% since then.
Abilene, Texas
Abilene's housing market is experiencing robust structural demand driven by significant industrial momentum, including the multi-billion-dollar Stargate AI infrastructure campus, alongside stable employment anchors at Dyess AFB and Hendrick Health. Single-family median sale prices have climbed to approximately $293,000, registering double-digit annual appreciation, while active inventory remains moderate at roughly four months of supply.
No ARED county foreclosure postings attributed to Abilene yet — the verified ledger covers every county the foreclosure ingest has read, attributed by published city area. Key-figure check: no independent anchor retained yet — first-researched cycles establish the anchor baseline this pass.
Deterministic aggregate of 5 researched ZIP reports — sales_count-weighted (population fallback); per point, children lacking the value or its weight are excluded. Tax rates, sentiment and context notes are tier-native and never roll.
Median prices moved up 16.4% year over year.
Homes spend a median of 39 days on market with 1.4 months of supply — a fast-moving market.
6% of listings have cut prices · homes sell at 49.84% of asking — demand is holding steady.
no recorded foreclosure-ledger notices (0.0 per 10,000 residents) · unemployment 3.7% · poverty 15.6% — a stable, low-distress profile.
- PrimeTime Family Entertainment Center4.24.2 mi
- Redbud Park4.63.6 mi
- Denton Valley Farms4.616.3 mi
- Formula Fun Adventure Park & Racing Abilene4.31.8 mi
- Adventure Cove4.11.7 mi
- Abilene Zoo4.62.5 mi
- Golden Corral Buffet & Grill4.23.9 mi
- Abilene Convention Center4.50.2 mi
- Taylor County Coliseum4.42.5 mi
- PrimeTime Family Entertainment Center4.24.2 mi
- Abilene Zoo4.62.5 mi
- Cinemark Abilene and XD4.72.6 mi
- PrimeTime Family Entertainment Center4.24.2 mi
- Redbud Park4.63.6 mi
- Free Play Arcade - Abilene4.50.2 mi
- Frontier Texas!4.80.3 mi
- The Grace Museum4.60.3 mi
- Buffalo Gap Historic Village4.712.8 mi
- National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature4.70.4 mi
- Swenson House.4.61.3 mi
- Abilene Zoo4.62.5 mi
- Iron Horse Travel Center4.415.1 mi
- Redbud Park4.63.6 mi
- Johnson Park4.311.6 mi
- Cal Young Park4.41.4 mi
- Abilene Country Club - North4.73.5 mi
- Maxwell Golf Course3.82.9 mi
- Mall of Abilene4.14.1 mi
- Ross Dress for Less4.24 mi
- Braum's Ice Cream & Dairy Store4.31.6 mi
- T.J. Maxx4.24 mi
- Kohl's4.24.6 mi
- Abilene Regional Airport4.14.1 mi
Theme parks, venues, golf, airports, museums, water and shopping across the area from Google Maps, ranked by popularity within the radius shown.
The amenity base that shapes daily life and property demand in this city — what residents actually live with, and what the pipeline is adding.
A premier regional family destination featuring over 1,000 animals, lake recreation, trails, and modern aquatic recreation amenities.
Home to the historic Paramount Theatre, National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Grace Museum, and dense local dining.
Primary northern water recreation hub offering boating, angling, shoreline camping, and trail systems.
South Abilene birding sanctuary and wetland trail network serving suburban neighborhoods.
Abilene fits entry-level family buyers, active-duty military households, and long-term yield-focused single-family residential investors seeking solid cap rates supported by defense, healthcare, and emergent tech megaprojects.
Abilene is predominantly served by Abilene ISD and Wylie ISD; campus performance varies widely, with Wylie ISD and specialty magnets outperforming standard comprehensive district high schools.
The city functions as a key regional transportation junction anchored by Interstate 20, US-83, US-84, and US-277, facilitating friction-free intracity travel. Commute times are among the shortest in mid-sized Texas metros, supported by Abilene Regional Airport (ABI) and Union Pacific Class I mainline rail.
Abilene offers an expansive municipal amenity footprint anchored by the historic 130-acre Nelson Park, Abilene Zoo, Kirby Lake, Lake Fort Phantom Hill, and the vibrant cultural assets of the Downtown Cultural District.
The rental market maintains robust baseline demand underpinned by Dyess AFB personnel, three four-year universities, and a sharp influx of technical contractors supporting hyperscale data center infrastructure, keeping single-family vacancies compressed and yields stable.
Abilene's economic base blends public-sector stability from Dyess Air Force Base with major regional healthcare networks like Hendrick Health and education anchors including Abilene Christian University. The rapid emergence of West Texas grid-scale renewables and multi-billion-dollar digital compute infrastructure projects is creating high-skill technical employment and broadening the tax base.
The local economy is experiencing structural acceleration driven by major hyperscale AI infrastructure projects, ongoing defense operations at Dyess Air Force Base, and healthcare expansion.
Municipal development activity is centered on industrial and compute capacity at Five Points Business Park and Access Business Park along with southern single-family residential corridors. Planners are focusing utility infrastructure expansions and arterial capacity improvements around newly designated tech zones.
Parcels within the city boundaries are subject to overlapping jurisdictions including the City of Abilene, Taylor County, Abilene or Wylie ISD, and the West Central Texas Municipal Water District, with limited utilization of residential PIDs.
Abilene exhibits property and violent crime rates slightly above Texas statewide averages, concentrated primarily in central urban corridors and older commercial pockets, while southern master-planned subdivisions remain notably quiet.
Hazard risks include severe West Texas convective storms bringing large hail, damaging straight-line winds, and localized flash flooding along Elm Creek tributaries, alongside occasional summer grass fire threats.
Property insurance underwriting across the Big Country reflects elevated convective storm risk, with frequent roof damage claims driving deductibles higher, while residential earthquake and flood risks remain negligible outside designated floodplains.
Composed from the ARED governance burden registry — tier-native tax structure (state + county + city + special districts), never averaged. State (Texas) — Senior (65+) and Disabled Homestead Exemption and School Tax Ceiling: Grants an additional mandatory $10,000 exemption from ISD appraised value (Taxable Value_ISD = Appraised Value - $100,000 - $10,000) and establishes an absolute statutory tax freeze (school tax ceiling): total ISD property taxes cannot exceed the dollar ceiling established in the… State (Texas) — General Residence Homestead Exemption and 10% Valuation Growth Cap: Imposes mandatory state-level valuation deductions and growth limitations on the qualifying homestead: (1) Mandates a $100,000 deduction from appraised value for independent school district (ISD) maintenance and operations/debt taxation: Taxable Value_ISD = Appraised Value - $100… State (Texas) — Ad Valorem Real Property Taxation and Assessment Ratio: Mandates ad valorem appraisal of all real property at 100% of fair market value as of January 1 each tax year (Assessment Ratio = 1.00).
Researched annual trajectory for this city, from published historical series
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 7.8%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Median annual property tax paid on this city's residential parcels
Solid: researched ten-year history · dotted: 1 / 3 / 5-year projection extended from the historical 6.2%/yr trend — a deterministic estimate, not a published forecast or guarantee.
Retrieved from U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts and Place profile (Census Place 4801000).
Public schools whose reported address is in this area (NCES). Not attendance boundaries — schools that serve residents may sit outside it. Check the district's address locator for assignment.