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The median home value in Brownwood, TX is $172,876 as of 2026-07-31, down 1.74% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$172,876
Year-over-Year
-1.74%
Population
18,782
Brownwood ranks #307 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 36.3% below the state's city median of $271,560. It sits in Brown County, where the county-wide median is $188,539.
Median household income in Brownwood is $48,981, so the typical home value is about 3.5× 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).
Brownwood police recorded a violent crime rate of 362 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 2,247 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 Brownwood, that value is $172,876. That's down 1.74% from a year earlier. It is about 36.3% below the typical Texas city tracked here.
Homes in Brownwood are cheaper than Brown County as a whole, where the median is $188,539 — a difference of about 8.3%.
Median household income here is $48,981, so the typical home value is about 3.5× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Brownwood police reported 362 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 18,782. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.