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The median home value in Gainesville, TX is $249,595 as of 2026-06-30, down 1.93% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$249,595
Year-over-Year
-1.93%
Population
18,348
Gainesville ranks #205 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 8.2% below the state's city median of $271,742. It sits in Cooke County, where the county-wide median is $322,998.
Gainesville police recorded a violent crime rate of 164 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,624 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
The median home value in Gainesville is $249,595. That's down 1.93% from a year earlier. That is about 8.2% below the typical county in Texas.
Homes in Gainesville are cheaper than Cooke County as a whole, where the median is $322,998 — a difference of about 22.7%.
Gainesville police reported 164 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 18,348. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.