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The median home value in Princeton, TX is $288,891 as of 2026-07-31, down 10.23% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$288,891
Year-over-Year
-10.23%
Population
26,650
Princeton ranks #152 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 6.4% above the state's city median of $271,560. It sits in Collin County, where the county-wide median is $483,125.
Median household income in Princeton is $105,200, so the typical home value is about 2.7× 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).
Princeton police recorded a violent crime rate of 274 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 844 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 Princeton, that value is $288,891. That's down 10.23% from a year earlier. It is about 6.4% above the typical Texas city tracked here.
Homes in Princeton are cheaper than Collin County as a whole, where the median is $483,125 — a difference of about 40.2%.
Median household income here is $105,200, so the typical home value is about 2.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Princeton police reported 274 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 26,650. 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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