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Home appreciation in Brownsville, TX

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Brownsville, TX grew an average of 9.8% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+1.3%

2025 over 2024. Texas: +1.8%.

5-year, per year

+9.8%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. Texas: +8.1%.

10-year, per year

+6.5%

+88.4% in total since 2015. Texas: +7.0%.

How does your home compare?

Brownsville, TX home prices rose 88.4% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +62.4% to +102.5%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Brownsville, TX compares with Texas

Texas averaged +8.1% a year, so Brownsville, TX grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Brownsville, TX ranks 125th out of 409 metros nationwide and 1st out of 26 in Texas.

Index, 2005 = 100

Brownsville-Harlingen, TX and Texas, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearBrownsville-Harlingen, TXTexas
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2102102
2005 Q3105103
2005 Q4107104
2006 Q1104106
2006 Q2106107
2006 Q3107109
2006 Q4108110
2007 Q1107112
2007 Q2111114
2007 Q3110114
2007 Q4112115
2008 Q1111116
2008 Q2111116
2008 Q3108116
2008 Q4112116
2009 Q1114117
2009 Q2113116
2009 Q3111115
2009 Q4110115
2010 Q1112114
2010 Q2110114
2010 Q3113115
2010 Q4112115
2011 Q1110113
2011 Q2110112
2011 Q3111113
2011 Q4111113
2012 Q1109113
2012 Q2108114
2012 Q3110115
2012 Q4110116
2013 Q1110117
2013 Q2112119
2013 Q3112121
2013 Q4109122
2014 Q1109124
2014 Q2111127
2014 Q3110130
2014 Q4112131
2015 Q1115133
2015 Q2112137
2015 Q3116139
2015 Q4115141
2016 Q1115143
2016 Q2114146
2016 Q3117149
2016 Q4118151
2017 Q1119153
2017 Q2118157
2017 Q3122159
2017 Q4122161
2018 Q1122163
2018 Q2123167
2018 Q3119169
2018 Q4124169
2019 Q1127171
2019 Q2126174
2019 Q3129176
2019 Q4132178
2020 Q1134180
2020 Q2133181
2020 Q3138184
2020 Q4136188
2021 Q1143192
2021 Q2149204
2021 Q3157217
2021 Q4167225
2022 Q1177236
2022 Q2183252
2022 Q3194258
2022 Q4183254
2023 Q1197255
2023 Q2201258
2023 Q3207260
2023 Q4204259
2024 Q1216262
2024 Q2213265
2024 Q3214266
2024 Q4211268
2025 Q1218268
2025 Q2211269
2025 Q3218270
2025 Q4218271
2026 Q1219272
2026 Q2221274

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.5% a year over ten years, +88.4% in total.

Over this history, home prices never fell more than 2.6% from a prior peak.

The strongest year was 2022 at +19.6%, and the weakest was 2011 at -1.1%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +1.3%, against +1.8% for the state.

ZIP codes in Brownsville, TX

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +62.4% in 78575 to +102.5% in 78578, while the metro as a whole rose 88.4%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 78578+102.5%
  2. 78586+98.1%
  3. 78521+91.9%
  4. 78520+89.7%
  5. 78597+88.2%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 78575+62.4%
  2. 78566+67.8%
  3. 78552+69.0%
  4. 78526+77.9%
  5. 78550+84.2%
ZIP codes in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
78578-1.0%+10.5%+7.3%+102.5%
78586+1.0%+11.0%+7.1%+98.1%
78521+0.7%+9.9%+6.7%+91.9%
78520+4.7%+9.8%+6.6%+89.7%
78597-13.5%+11.3%+6.5%+88.2%
78550+0.3%+8.9%+6.3%+84.2%
78526-1.6%+8.9%+5.9%+77.9%
78552-1.5%+8.4%+5.4%+69.0%
78566+1.5%+8.1%+5.3%+67.8%
78575+6.3%+8.8%+5.0%+62.4%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Brownsville-Harlingen, TX and Texas, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006102.9+2.9%105.6
2007106.2+3.2%111.1
2008106.8+0.5%113.1
2009108.5+1.6%113.3
2010108.0-0.5%111.9
2011106.8-1.1%110.3
2012105.7-1.0%112.0
2013107.2+1.4%116.9
2014106.6-0.6%125.2
2015111.0+4.1%134.3
2016112.1+1.0%143.8
2017116.3+3.8%154.0
2018117.9+1.4%163.1
2019124.2+5.3%171.0
2020131.1+5.5%178.9
2021149.1+13.8%204.7
2022178.3+19.6%244.1
2023195.5+9.7%252.0
2024206.4+5.5%259.0
2025209.0+1.3%263.6

The 26 measured metros in Texas

Measured metros in Texas ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1Brownsville-Harlingen, TX+1.3%+9.8%+6.5%
2El Paso, TX+3.3%+9.8%+6.4%
3Sherman-Denison, TX+0.5%+9.7%+8.5%
4McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX+3.6%+9.6%+6.7%
5Killeen-Temple, TX+1.2%+9.3%+7.4%
6Longview, TX+2.9%+9.1%+5.9%
7Waco, TX+3.6%+8.9%+7.8%
8Wichita Falls, TX+3.6%+8.9%+6.7%
9College Station-Bryan, TX+4.6%+8.6%+6.8%
10Tyler, TX+2.2%+8.6%+6.7%
11Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX (metropolitan division)+0.6%+8.5%+7.7%
12Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine, TX (metropolitan division)+1.1%+8.3%+7.8%
13Abilene, TX+4.4%+8.2%+6.2%
14Texarkana, TX-AR+4.8%+8.1%+5.8%
15Laredo, TX+3.8%+7.5%+5.5%
16San Angelo, TX+3.4%+7.5%+5.7%
17Amarillo, TX+2.4%+7.4%+5.2%
18Corpus Christi, TX+1.6%+7.3%+5.4%
19San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX+1.5%+7.3%+6.6%
20Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX+2.2%+6.9%+5.5%
21Victoria, TX0.0%+6.9%+4.7%
22Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX-0.2%+6.8%+6.9%
23Lubbock, TX+2.2%+6.5%+5.1%
24Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX+3.8%+6.1%+5.3%
25Midland, TX+4.5%+4.6%+4.7%
26Odessa, TX+3.9%+4.0%+4.2%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the Texas row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2