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The median home value in Gainesville, TX is $246,389 as of 2026-07-31, down 2.36% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$246,389
Year-over-Year
-2.36%
Population
18,348
Gainesville ranks #207 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 9.3% below the state's city median of $271,560. It sits in Cooke County, where the county-wide median is $319,380.
Median household income in Gainesville is $58,809, so the typical home value is about 4.2× 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).
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).
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 Gainesville, that value is $246,389. That's down 2.36% from a year earlier. It is about 9.3% below the typical Texas city tracked here.
Homes in Gainesville are cheaper than Cooke County as a whole, where the median is $319,380 — a difference of about 22.9%.
Median household income here is $58,809, so the typical home value is about 4.2× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
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.
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