The median home value in Rusk, TX is $210,531 as of 2026-06-30, down 6.58% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$210,531
Year-over-Year
-6.58%
Population
5,387
Rusk ranks #263 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 22.5% below the state's city median of $271,742. It sits in Cherokee County, where the county-wide median is $234,292.
Rusk police recorded a violent crime rate of 111 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 965 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 Rusk is $210,531. That's down 6.58% from a year earlier. That is about 22.5% below the typical county in Texas.
Homes in Rusk are cheaper than Cherokee County as a whole, where the median is $234,292 — a difference of about 10.1%.
Rusk police reported 111 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,387. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.