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The median home value in Brownsville, TX is $196,626 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.83% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$196,626
Year-over-Year
+1.83%
Population
191,221
Brownsville ranks #279 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 27.6% below the state's city median of $271,560. It sits in Cameron County, where the county-wide median is $207,321.
Median household income in Brownsville is $52,130, so the typical home value is about 3.8× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Brownsville police recorded a violent crime rate of 456 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 1,942 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Brownsville, that value is $196,626. That's up 1.83% from a year earlier. It is about 27.6% below the typical Texas city tracked here.
Homes in Brownsville are cheaper than Cameron County as a whole, where the median is $207,321 — a difference of about 5.2%.
Median household income here is $52,130, so the typical home value is about 3.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Brownsville police reported 456 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 191,221. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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