A typical Copperas Cove home is worth about $228,000
About the same as a year ago, 24% below the Texas typical home. Homes typically sell in 59 days, below asking.
What kind of housing town is Copperas Cove?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 3.2 years of income
Less than across Texas (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Copperas Cove home, with $22K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,190 a month here, $320 less than owning.
How Copperas Cove ranks on affordability →
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Copperas Cove’s typical property tax (1.68% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
Up 21.1% in five years
Faster than Texas (11.1%).
Show as a table
| January | Copperas Cove | Texas |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $123,000 | $190,000 |
| 2018 | $129,000 | $202,000 |
| 2019 | $136,000 | $214,000 |
| 2020 | $147,000 | $223,000 |
| 2021 | $166,000 | $242,000 |
| 2022 | $205,000 | $286,000 |
| 2023 | $233,000 | $313,000 |
| 2024 | $230,000 | $311,000 |
| 2025 | $228,000 | $311,000 |
| 2026 | $228,000 | $303,000 |
| August 2026 | $228,000 | $299,000 |
A typical Copperas Cove home worth $123K in September 2016 is worth about $228K today.
How Copperas Cove ranks on rising home prices →
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
A balanced market
About 4.9 months of supply: neither buyers nor sellers have a clear edge.
Under ~4 months of supply favors sellers; over ~6 favors buyers.
Redfin Data Center, all residential sales, May 2026.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,190
Renters already here pay a median of $1,043, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
How Copperas Cove ranks on rent that’s easy to afford →
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Killeen-Temple, TX HUD Metro FMR Area): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
474 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 474 new homes in Copperas Cove in 2025: 297 single-family houses and 177 in buildings with two or more homes, worth about $54.4 million to build. That's 12 per 1,000 residents, faster than across Texas (8.1). Over the past 10 years, Copperas Cove has permitted 2,843 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Copperas Cove gained 4,638 residents while 1,737 new homes were permitted: about 2.7 new residents per new home. Building and growth moved roughly in step. Across Texas: 2.6 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 189 | 129 | 60 | $17.8 million |
| 2025 | 474 | 297 | 177 | $54.4 million |
| 2024 | 367 | 273 | 94 | $38.1 million |
| 2023 | 434 | 280 | 154 | $51.5 million |
| 2022 | 376 | 282 | 94 | $40.9 million |
| 2021 | 211 | 69 | 142 | $24.3 million |
| 2020 | 328 | 266 | 62 | $39.1 million |
| 2019 | 165 | 161 | 4 | $21 million |
| 2018 | 199 | 185 | 14 | $27 million |
| 2017 | 140 | 124 | 16 | $19.3 million |
| 2016 | 149 | 139 | 10 | $20.6 million |
| 2015 | 212 | 124 | 88 | $28.6 million |
| 2014 | 114 | 98 | 16 | $14.8 million |
| 2013 | 64 | 58 | 6 | $8.3 million |
| 2012 | 250 | 148 | 102 | $31.2 million |
| 2011 | 151 | 141 | 10 | $21.7 million |
| 2010 | 293 | 182 | 111 | $72.8 million |
| 2009 | 169 | 157 | 12 | $20.9 million |
| 2008 | 195 | 177 | 18 | $23 million |
| 2007 | 282 | 190 | 92 | $29.7 million |
| 2006 | 414 | 250 | 164 | $41.5 million |
| 2005 | 506 | 316 | 190 | $49.1 million |
| 2004 | 212 | 162 | 50 | $23.9 million |
| 2003 | 282 | 80 | 202 | $19.6 million |
| 2002 | 96 | 69 | 27 | $11.2 million |
| 2001 | 92 | 68 | 24 | $10.8 million |
| 2000 | 81 | 69 | 12 | $9.9 million |
How Copperas Cove ranks on new homes being built →
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
60% of Copperas Cove households own their home
Half of Copperas Cove’s homes were built before 1989.
Texas: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.