Killeen-Temple, TX · Bell County, TX · 7,460 properties with county records
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Salado 76571 is in Bell County, TX, part of the Killeen Metro. The typical home value in Salado 76571 is $508,778 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 1.7% from a year earlier. Homes that sold went under contract in a median 94 days, and 28% of listings took a price cut (Redfin Data Center, period ending Sep 30, 2026). On Lotvox's market-leverage reading of that data, with 3.6 months of supply, buyers hold the advantage. The Lotvox Turnover Index is not published for 76571 yet: it appears only where a held-out test on the county's recorded sales beats chance. Across Bell County's 18 ZIPs with a Zillow value, the middle one is $263,230, so 76571 sits 93% above the county middle. Typical rent is $1,973 a month (Zillow Observed Rent Index, September 2026). Lotvox holds county assessor records for 7,460 properties in 76571.
Headline value data through September 2026. Each source below carries its own date.
Is 76571 a buyer's or seller's market?
By Lotvox's leverage reading of Redfin data through Sep 30, 2026, 76571 is a buyer's market. Homes went under contract in a median 94 days with 3.6 months of supply.
What do homes in 76571 sell for?
The typical home value in 76571 is $508,778 (Zillow Home Value Index, September 2026), down 1.7% in a year. County records put the median at about $211 per square foot (computed Apr 21, 2026).
Who is likely to sell in 76571?
Lotvox only publishes its Turnover Index where a held-out test on recorded sales beats chance, and 76571 has not passed that test yet. When it does, the score appears here.
How does 76571 compare to Bell County?
76571's typical value of $508,778 compares with a middle value of $263,230 across Bell County's 18 ZIPs. Both are Zillow Home Value Index figures for September 2026.
Where does this 76571 data come from?
Values and rents come from Zillow's research data, sales pace from the Redfin Data Center, and property counts and turnover from county assessor and deed records. Each number on this page carries its own date, and the method is published at lotvox.com/methodology.
Verdict grades housing conditions; buyer-timing, investor cash-flow, supply-tightness and county macro scores answer different questions — each in its own section.
Buyer / seller
buyer-timing lens
Negotiate Hard
Needs 7.7% correction for affordability
DOM: 124d (rising) · Market Dynamics rolling median · hourly
Score Components
Payment Burden (25%)50
Valuation Gap (25%)25
Supply & Demand (20%)100
Buy vs Rent (15%)75
Cancellation Rate (10%)100
Days on Market (5%)100
Moderate buyer leverage in 76571. Room to negotiate 5-10% below list. Payment burden: 30.4% of median income. Median days on market: 124. Renting is approximately 80% cheaper than buying (price-to-rent ratio: 21.6).
What to Offer
Offer 5-10% below list. You have room to negotiate.
Median price: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI). Median rent: Zillow Observed Rent Index (ZORI). Days on market and active listings: Redfin Data Center, rolling 90 days.
Valuation
3 lenses, different anchors
vs assessor
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Market vs assessed value — a tax-roll lag, not a deal signal.
Avg assessor$0
county CAMA · properties_v
vs income
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Fair-value model not available for this market.
fair_value_scores · 10-state coverage
vs county comps
+38.8%
County-wide market — the widest, slowest signal.
Bell+38.8%
Lotvox comps · mv_valuation_gap
Read together: Above county comps but sustainable on local incomes.
Housing pulse — Housing pulse could not be loaded (429).
Price bands
mix-shift
Price Bands — the median behind the median
A single median rises whenever expensive homes become a bigger share of what sells, even if no tier got more expensive. These are the tiers underneath it, computed from recorded arms-length deed transactions in Bell.
Current tiers · 12 months to Invalid Datefloor 10 sales/tier
7 tiers had too few sales at every level and are left blank rather than estimated.
Tier
Median
$/sqft
Sales
Share
Source
Under $250k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$250k–$500k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$500k–$750k
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$750k–$1M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1M–$1.5M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$1.5M–$2M
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
$2M+
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fewer than 10 sales at zip, county and metro level
No mix-shift history for this area. no geography from this ZIP up to metro has 8+ quarters of 10+ recorded arms-length sales across at least 4 price tiers. Trends are drawn only from recorded transactions; the last-sale snapshot above cannot carry a time series, because a property that sold twice keeps only its latest sale — which drags the history upward through the tiers and would invent the very mix shift this section exists to test for.
National context — not local
NAR's aggregate existing-home median for the United States and the South census region. This is the figure the tiers above are a check on. It is national/regional and says nothing about 76571.
United States
South
Copyright, National Association of Realtors. Reprinted with permission. Retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED publishes a rolling 13-month window for these series.
Tiers computed from Lotvox parcel and deed substrate through Aug 25 (10 later months withheld as partially loaded). Sample floor 10 sales per tier; below it a figure is drawn from the county or metro and labelled, or left blank. Multi-parcel bulk deeds and duplicate records are excluded.
ZIP score grades housing; county score adds macro distress (jobs, debt, poverty). They answer different questions.
ZIP 76571→Bell County, TX
12-Month Direction
-9Stable
Confidence
100%
DeterioratingStableImproving
BuildersLens Market Intelligence
Market Score
47· Weak
Market Score grades housing-market conditions (affordability, valuation, supply). The county Healthy/Moderate/Distressed badge measures economic distress (jobs, debt, poverty) — the two can read differently.
Payment Burden
32.5%
stretched
Source: Freddie Mac PMMS (FRED MORTGAGE30US) 7.32% · Zillow ZHVI · Census income · Updated 2026-10-22
Price-to-rent
21.5x
favors renting
Source: Zillow ZHVI ÷ (Zillow ZORI × 12)
Valuation23
+38.8%
overvalued
Source: Lotvox comps · Updated 2026-05-15
Supply/Demand
3.6 mo
balanced
Source: Redfin Data Center (ZIP): inventory ÷ monthly homes sold · Updated 2026-09-30
Insurance Risk
43/100
low_risk
Source: FEMA/NFIP · Updated 2026-04
County distress indicators
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Economic indicators are mixed relative to comparable U.S. counties.
Unemployment Rate
5.2%
TX 4.1%US 4.4%
Near national averages
Source: BLS LAUS · 2026-0857d ago
Poverty Rate
11.5%
TX 13.8%US 12.6%
Near national averages
Median Household Income
$66,051
TX $78,036US $82,006
Near national averages
Cost of Living (RPP)
96.5
TX 96.5US 100.3
Near national averages
Home Value (ZHVI)$252,692
County data: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), BLS, Census ACS, CDC, FBI UCR, Federal Reserve, USDA
