Maypearl known as “A Pearl In The Heart Of North Texas” is a small Ellis County town that combines rural character with straightforward access to Dallas and Waco. It’s known for its tight‑knit school community, mix of established homes, small acreage tracts, and wide‑open views, attracting buyers who want space, a true small‑town feel, and long‑term upside while remaining connected to DFW employers and entertainment.
A town of 939 people on less than a square mile organises differently than Midlothian or Red Oak. Named communities exist, but so does a great deal of acreage along the farm-to-market roads, and the line between inside the city limits and outside it changes what you get. Here are the communities, the corridors and the questions that come with each.
1 to 1.3 acre lots
The closest thing Maypearl has to a conventional neighbourhood, near FM 1446 and FM 157 about a mile and a half from downtown. Built roughly 2020 to 2022 by Canyon Creek Custom Homes and Elmwood Custom Homes, both of whom are now finished here.
1 acre lots · from ~$725K
John Houston Homes on Old Buena Vista Road off the FM 66 corridor. Maypearl ISD, a Waxahachie 75167 mailing address, and no city taxes, because it sits outside the city limits. Now sold out, so anything here is resale.
Ask for current pricing
The one place with active new construction marketed under a community name. Maypearl ISD. In a market this small, a handful of homes under construction counts as the new-build inventory.
Ask for current pricing
Canyon Creek Custom Homes, marketed plainly as outside the city limits with no city taxes. The same trade every acreage buyer here makes: lower taxes, and no city water, sewer or services either.
Acreage tracts to 135+ acres
The road that ends in Maypearl. FM 157 terminates here at FM 66 and runs north through Venus and Mansfield toward Euless. It carries the largest tracts in the market, including a 135-acre spread listed at $975,000, plus frontage directly across from the high school and stadium.
Mixed acreage and older homes
East to Waxahachie, west through Files Valley toward Itasca. It absorbed the old Waxahachie to Maypearl route back in 1943 and is still how most people get here. Pasture, hay ground, older homes on big lots and scattered new custom builds.
Older homes, smaller lots
Streets like Trice and East 3rd, immediately off Main. Not a branded subdivision, just the original town. The genuine advantage here is that inside the city limits you get city water and city sewer, which almost nowhere else in this market does.
Varies widely by build
Worth naming, because it is a real product here rather than a novelty. Multiple builders market barndominium construction specifically in Maypearl, and on acreage where shop space matters as much as square footage, it is often the practical build.
Swipe or drag sideways to see them all.
Maypearl covers about 0.81 square miles. A great deal of what a buyer searches as Maypearl actually sits outside that, in unincorporated Ellis County with a Waxahachie 75167 mailing address. Inside the city limits you get city water, city sewer and city trash, and you are subject to city zoning and permits. Outside it you are on a private septic system and either a well or a rural water corporation, with no city zoning, no city permits and no city services. Builders advertise that as "no city taxes," which is true, and it is only half the sentence.
Roughly 158 land listings in the Maypearl area average about $26,600 an acre, and homes with acreage attached run nearer $33,600 an acre. Tracts on the market span from a two or three acre building lot up past 135 acres. On the livestock question, the working local rule is about one large animal per acre, but that is a rule of thumb rather than an ordinance and it changes depending on whether you are inside the city, in the extraterritorial jurisdiction or in the county. Verify it for the specific tract.
Community names, builders, lot sizes and eras come from builder marketing, listing data and the City of Maypearl. Price ranges are deliberately sparse because Maypearl transacts too few homes for neighbourhood-level pricing to carry meaning; ask for a current comparative market analysis instead. The HOA status of Eyrie Meadows is genuinely disputed, with one source describing HOA-managed streets and a lot listing stating no HOA, so confirm against the recorded plat and deed restrictions rather than either. No Public Improvement District and no Municipal Utility District was found in Maypearl or its extraterritorial jurisdiction across city, appraisal district, Texas Comptroller and state water district records; confirm the taxing units on any specific parcel at the Ellis Central Appraisal District before closing. Water service outside the city limits comes from a private well or from a rural provider including Mountain Peak Special Utility District, Files Valley Water Supply Corporation, Rockett Special Utility District or Sardis-Lone Elm, depending on the parcel, and service area boundaries must be checked address by address. The city operates its own groundwater system, public water system ID TX0700004. Minimum lot sizes by zoning district were not extracted from the ordinance text and should be confirmed with the city. Agricultural valuation is common on tracts here and does not transfer on sale; taking land out of qualifying use triggers rollback tax, and wildlife management valuation may be an alternative worth asking Ellis CAD about. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Maypearl has 939 people and eight independent businesses, nearly all of them on two blocks of Main Street. That should be an unremarkable list. Instead this town has produced barbecue reviewed by Texas Monthly, and the whole commercial district fits in a paragraph. Both of those things are worth knowing before you move here.
220 N Main St · 817-793-1882
The building is over a hundred years old, and before Drew's it held Cruz BBQ Company, which earned a full review from Texas Monthly's barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn. He wrote that pitmaster Paul Cruz was less than a year in and had already made Maypearl a worthy stop, and singled out the unusual all-charcoal smoker: other than one place in Gonzales, he did not know of another Texas joint using one.
Drew's opened in February 2025 with Cruz as co-owner alongside Drew Stallings and Wes Lane. The Dallas Morning News ran a feature on them that June. Order the habanero-jack sausage, made in house, or the brisket birria. Also brisket grilled cheese, burnt ends and homemade peanut butter pie.
301 Main St · 972-435-8222
The small-town cafe every town this size used to have. Burgers, chicken fried steak, grilled catfish, oversized house-made onion rings and homemade root beer, plus beer on tap. Top-ranked restaurant in town on Tripadvisor.
302 Main St · 972-435-3160
Conveyor-oven pizza, wings and garlic cheese bread, and the thing kids remember: chocolate chip cookies roughly the size of a small pizza. Where a good share of the town's birthday parties happen.
401 Main St · 972-435-3400
Breakfast and brisket burritos with a choice of red or green sauce, plus burgers and grilled sandwiches. Ask for the green salsa. Drive-up window, morning hours, gone by mid-afternoon.
319 N Main St · 817-933-4797
Made-to-order burgers, wings, a full bar and a backyard beer garden, with live music, karaoke and trivia. Started life as a brewing concept, which is where the name comes from.
705 N Main St, Ste 117 · 214-980-0441
Full kitchen and bar with local craft taps and eight-plus screens. All-you-can-eat catfish dinners, live music on weekends, and an annual crawfish boil in May that is now several years running.
705 N Main St #125 · 682-273-8888
Family-owned and named for the Maypearl Panthers. Donuts, kolaches, cinnamon rolls, breakfast croissants and a jalapeño hogs in a quilt that is exactly what it sounds like. Open five in the morning until noon.
201 Main St · 972-435-8080
The most important business on this list for anyone buying acreage. Hardware and feed in the same building, in a town where the nearest full ranch supply is a drive. It also appears in listings as All U Need Feed & Supply, so confirm the current name.
321 N Main St · 214-908-0479
A classic weekend pit operation: smoker loaded Friday night, doors at noon Saturday, serving until it runs out. One directory lists it as closed while the Facebook page stays active, so call before you drive.
109 N Main St · 972-435-2197
Labelled as a chain, listed anyway, because it is the only full grocery in town and a genuine landmark. Employee-owned out of Lufkin, with fuel and curbside pickup. Without it this would be a town with no grocery at all.
Neither exists in Maypearl. Coffee is available at the Busy Bee and Panther Donuts. For a dedicated coffee shop, an ice cream parlour or a snow cone stand, it is Waxahachie at about eleven miles or Midlothian at thirteen.
No veterinary clinic, and specifically no large animal or equine vet, which matters in a town surrounded by pasture. No confirmed mechanic, tire shop, nursery, florist or salon either. In a town this size some of these may exist without any web presence at all, so ask locally, but plan on Waxahachie, Midlothian or Grandview.
That is genuinely unusual and it is the best story Maypearl has. Cruz BBQ opened in 2021 and pulled a full review from Daniel Vaughn, the state's barbecue editor, who documented an all-charcoal cabinet smoker held between 225 and 250 degrees and noted he knew of only one other Texas joint running that setup.
That operation became Drew's BBQ and Eatery in February 2025, with Paul Cruz staying on as co-owner. The Dallas Morning News covered the new partnership that June. Add weekend-only Hissy Fits down the street and a town under a thousand people is producing barbecue that people drive in for. If you visit Maypearl once, go on a Saturday and go hungry.
Eight confirmed independent businesses inside Maypearl city limits, plus one uncertain. Verified September 2026 and deliberately short, because padding this list would not help you. Brookshire Brothers and Dollar General are chains and are labelled as such; Brookshire Brothers is included because it is the only full grocery in town. Hissy Fits BBQ shows conflicting status across sources and needs a phone call before you drive. Maypearl Hardware & Feed and All U Need Feed & Supply appear at the same 201 Main Street address, so the current operating name should be confirmed. Several restaurants are listed at both North and South Main across different directories; the street number is reliable, the direction is not. Hours in small towns change frequently and barbecue frequently sells out before posted closing, so call ahead. One honest caveat on the empty categories: in a town of 939 people a mechanic, a barber or a large animal vet may well operate with no website, no listing and no online footprint whatsoever, so "not found" here means not found online rather than definitively absent. Businesses listed are for general local reference and are not endorsements, and I receive no compensation from any business named. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
A Railroad Town Named for Two Daughters
Ellis County was created in 1849. Around the future townsite grew a ring of farming hamlets that are now marked only by cemeteries and historical markers.
Archibald and Mary Greathouse settled the Greathouse community in 1848. The Bethel Methodist congregation traces to an 1852 land gift by N.P. Sims at High Springs. To the northwest, Nation Town had stores and a school, and took the name Ozro when its post office opened in 1898.
All three have Texas Historical Commission markers today, all erected in 1978. None has a town.
Before it was Maypearl, this place was called Eyrie. Its post office opened August 24, 1894 with Gertrude Dumas as postmaster.
An eyrie is an eagle's nest, built high on a cliff. Whoever chose it was describing this prairie the way they saw it.
The name did not vanish. The Eyrie Meadows subdivision off FM 1446 carries it more than a century later, which is the kind of thread most towns lose entirely.
The International-Great Northern Railroad reached Eyrie in 1903. On June 25 the post office was renamed Maypearl, honouring the daughters of two railroad officials: May and Pearl.
Worth being precise, because it is a lovely story and the record is incomplete. The two officials have never been named in any documented source, and neither have the girls beyond their first names. The story is consistently reported and almost certainly true, but nobody wrote down who they were.
The other half of the story is what the railroad did to its neighbours. Both the Ozro and Greathouse markers record the same thing: when the tracks came, residents moved to trackside Maypearl and the older communities declined. Maypearl grew by absorbing them.
Churches, schools, banks, a downtown and a cemetery all arrived within a decade of the tracks.
The Maypearl Cemetery began after landowner William P. Wilemon died in 1907. His widow Minnie sold four acres including his grave to trustees J.P. Claunch, A.W. Dowd and Isaac Griffith. It holds veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, both World Wars, Korea and Vietnam.
The incorporation date is genuinely disputed. The Handbook of Texas says 1910, Wikipedia says 1911, and both the 1972 History of Ellis County and the Texas Municipal League say 1914. The first mayor is not documented anywhere.
By 1914 Maypearl had two banks, a weekly newspaper, four churches and twenty-five businesses, with about 300 students in its schools. Population hit 417 by 1920.
This was cotton country and the railroad existed to move the crop. That is the entire economic logic of the town in one sentence.
Two things people repeat about this era are not documented anywhere: the number of cotton gins that operated, and whether Maypearl ever had a hotel or an opera house. Both are plausible for a town of this type. Neither is written down.
Most railroad towns collapsed in the Depression. Maypearl did something stranger: it held between 350 and 400 people for roughly four decades while its business count shrank from twenty-eight to twelve.
A 1958 snapshot in the History of Ellis County catches the town mid-plateau: 170 in grade school, 60 in high school, eighteen businesses, one railroad station, two municipally owned deep wells, a city sewer system, 190 natural gas connections, a volunteer fire department with one truck and six fireplugs, and thirty streetlights.
Social life ran through the Community Center, the croquet grounds and a domino hall. That is a complete description of a town's entertainment in 1958.
Downtown burned more than once. The gaps where buildings stood were filled in to conceal them, which is why Main Street reads the way it does today.
Specific fire dates and losses are not documented, only the fact that several occurred. The same is true of the railroad: the exact end of passenger service here and the date the line was abandoned are not in the accessible record, though comparable I-GN passenger service in the region ended around 1970.
The depot survived, which is not a small thing. It still stands and still gets used, and the Chamber runs monthly gatherings in it.
Population climbed from 462 in 1977 to 626 in 1986, with about fifteen businesses operating. The growth had nothing to do with cotton and everything to do with commuting distance.
In November 1988 federal officials chose Ellis County as the site of the Superconducting Super Collider, the largest science project the country had ever attempted. It would have changed everything here.
Roughly $2 billion was spent against a projected cost climbing toward $11 billion before the House voted to kill it. Congress axed the project on October 21, 1993.
The abandoned tunnelling near Waxahachie is still down there. It remains the great what-if of Ellis County, and every town out here has an opinion about it.
781 residents in 1990, 746 in 2000, 934 in 2010. Maypearl settled into being a small town within reach of a large metro, and new construction began appearing on acreage outside the city limits.
Philip "Doc" Veltman died on March 15, 2019, after the deadline to remove his name from the ballot. On May 4, Maypearl elected him mayor anyway.
He was 71, a former teacher at Skyline and DeSoto high schools with a thirty-year career at Dr Pepper, and a Maypearl resident since 1990. He took 68 of 110 votes, 62 percent, against former mayor John Wayne Pruitt.
The story went national. Read generously, it is not a story about a clerical failure. It is a story about a town that knew exactly who it was voting for and voted for him regardless. The council then appointed sitting member Jo Ann Mathers to fill the seat.
939 residents at the 2020 Census. Mayor Chance Lynch took office in 2024 and was re-elected in 2025, and downtown is busier than it has been in decades.
The Maypearl Economic Development Corporation offers grants up to $25,000 with a 25 percent applicant match, and awarded one to Drew's BBQ, which opened February 2025 at 220 N Main in a century-old building. The Dallas Morning News reported it moves close to 600 pounds of brisket a week, with days when the staff simply cannot cook more.
Meanwhile the depot hosts monthly Depot Days and Antique Alley brings tens of thousands of people down Main Street twice a year. A town of 939 does not usually get a second act. This one is having one.
Compiled from the Texas State Historical Association, the Texas Historical Commission marker atlas, the 1972 History of Ellis County, the City of Maypearl, Texas Escapes, the Texas Municipal League, the US Census Bureau, the Dallas Morning News and Ellis County election records. Where the record is silent it is said so rather than filled in: the names of the two railroad officials and their daughters, the first mayor, the number of cotton gins, whether a hotel or opera house ever operated, the specific fire dates, and the end of passenger rail service are all undocumented in accessible sources. The incorporation year is genuinely disputed across three sources, all of which are given. One further conflict: the City of Maypearl's own history page states a 2020 population of 1,034, while the US Census Bureau recorded 939; the Census figure is used here. Some retellings of the 2019 mayoral election misdate it to 2013, but every primary source confirms 2019.
Chamber-Run, School-Anchored, and Twice a Year It Fills Up
The biggest thing that happens here. Maypearl is one of eight towns on a forty-mile vintage shopping trail that has run since 1999 and draws roughly 40,000 visitors. April 17 to 19 in 2026.
The full trail runs Grandview, Cleburne, Maypearl, Alvarado, Venus, Keene, Joshua and Waxahachie. Vendors set up in yards, barns, fields and storefronts along the route, and people work it over two or three days.
For a town of 939 people, hosting a stop on something that pulls forty thousand visitors twice a year is the single most consequential fact about its calendar. If you live on or near Main Street, plan around it.
Thousands of eggs, run by the Chamber of Commerce. April 4 in 2026.
Not in Maypearl, but this is where Maypearl FFA students compete. Held at the Ellis County Expo Center at 2300 W US-287 Bypass, ending with the Sale of Champions.
Maypearl ISD graduation is May 22, 2026 at 7pm, held at Nelson University in Waxahachie rather than at Roesler Stadium. Meanwhile Hard 90 on North Main runs an annual crawfish boil, now several years running.
The send-off to summer and the unofficial start of the school year. Small, free and exactly what it sounds like.
The second run of the year, September 18 to 20 in 2026. Same eight-town trail, same crowds, cooler weather.
The town's dominant social event from late August through the playoffs. Roesler Stadium seats 2,500 in a town of 939, which tells you everything. Class 3A Division II, with homecoming week and a parade in the autumn.
Decorated cars, candy and costumes on Main Street, run by the Chamber. In a town with this much acreage, a central trunk or treat is how trick-or-treating actually works.
Lights, shopping, treats and family activities across the Main Street blocks. The Chamber's signature holiday event, and the umbrella that covers the season here.
Coffee, donuts and local history in the original railroad depot, which survived when the trains did not. The best hour you can spend if you want to understand this town.
Shops and restaurants stay open late on Main Street. A monthly reason for the downtown businesses to have a busy evening.
Run through Ellis County ESD #1 at the fire station. Worth naming because it is the department's standing public commitment, and it runs every month rather than once a year.
Open to the public. Maypearl is a General Law Type A city with a mayor and council, currently led by Mayor Chance Lynch.
No Fourth of July fireworks, no National Night Out, no Memorial Day service, no farmers market, no car show, no 5K and no rodeo in town. There is also no annual volunteer fire department fundraiser, which surprises people, because in most small Texas towns that is the biggest night of the year. Maypearl's department runs a monthly food bank instead.
And there is no library. Residents use the Nicholas P. Sims Library at 515 W Main Street in Waxahachie, about eleven miles out, a non-profit that has served all of Ellis County since 1905. Its current director grew up in Maypearl. Waxahachie is eleven miles, Midlothian thirteen, and both run full calendars.
Dates shift annually. In a town this size the authoritative sources are social channels rather than printed calendars: the Maypearl Chamber of Commerce for nearly every event on this list, plus the City of Maypearl and Maypearl ISD pages for council, school and athletic dates. Antique Alley dates are set by the trail organisers across all eight towns. Several items could not be confirmed and are noted rather than guessed: the exact homecoming date, whether the Hard 90 crawfish boil recurs every year, and the names, addresses and amenities of the city parks, which should be confirmed with City Hall at 972-435-2380 before relying on them. Church-hosted community events almost certainly exist but none were specifically documented, so ask individual congregations. Maypearl has no standalone founders day or heritage festival; its heritage tradition is monthly Depot Days and its marquee downtown events are the two Antique Alley weekends.
What sets Maypearl ISD apart:
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After five cities where the school district question was genuinely complicated, Maypearl is refreshingly simple inside the city limits: one district, three campuses, no zones to work out. Outside the city limits it gets complicated again, and that is the part worth reading.
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400 Panther St · Lorene Smith Kirkpatrick
Feeds Maypearl Middle School
Where every Maypearl child starts. The district folded the former Maypearl Primary into LSK for 2025-26, so what used to be two campuses is now one running pre-kindergarten through fourth grade.
Worth knowing if you are reading older sources: Wikipedia and several directories still list four campuses including a separate Primary. The district's own site and its campus subdomains show three. Three is current.
Free pre-kindergarten is available to four-year-olds meeting at least one state criterion, including economically disadvantaged, English learner, homeless, foster care, or child of active-duty military.
1025 W Fourth St
Feeds Maypearl High School
An unusual four-year band covering fifth through eighth, which small districts often use. Gained five new classrooms including two science labs and a storm shelter from the 2023 bond, opened in fall 2025.
600 Phillips St · Established 1904
Fed by Maypearl Middle School
The oldest institution in town, running since 1904, with a WPA building completed in 1939 still standing. About 379 students and a ratio near eleven to one, which is a genuinely small class size.
The outcomes worth knowing: 94.3 percent of the Class of 2023 graduated on time against a statewide 90.3 percent, and the average SAT was 1014. In a school with roughly 379 students, a ratio near eleven to one means teachers know every kid by name.
The 2023 bond replaced half the campus, adding science labs, a culinary lab and five classrooms, all opened in fall 2025. District-wide the average teacher has 12.8 years of experience against a statewide 11.1. Principal David James III.
At Maypearl High School
The reason to look past the letter grade. Qualifying students take Navarro College dual credit and can graduate high school holding an associate degree. Certificate paths in cosmetology and paralegal studies run through Navarro and Texas State Technical College.
Maypearl High School
This matters more here than anywhere else in the area. The district built a dedicated agricultural facility in 2007, and the old one became the football field house. Maypearl FFA shows at the Ellis County Youth Expo in Waxahachie every spring.
CTE covers all five state endorsements with electives in engineering, agriculture, fine arts, computer science, culinary arts and family and consumer sciences. The culinary lab is new, from the 2023 bond.
If you are moving to acreage with a child who shows livestock, this programme and its facility are a real part of what you are buying.
Home of the Panthers
A stadium seating 2,500 in a town of 939 tells you what Friday night means here. Turf and track installed 2014 and replaced 2022. Roughly twenty playoff appearances, no state title, and a 2024 area final.
Beyond football the district fields volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, tennis, golf, cross country, track, powerlifting and cheer, plus an indoor golf practice facility, which is unusual for a district this size. Girls basketball reached the 2025 postseason.
Who W.G. Roesler was, and when the stadium was built, are not documented in any accessible source.
Outside Maypearl
No private, parochial or charter school operates in Maypearl. The nearest private options are in Waxahachie about eleven miles out, including St. Joseph Catholic School and Waxahachie Preparatory Academy, with Ovilla Christian School farther north.
Transfers into Maypearl ISD are limited. The district runs a no-fee transfer policy subject to committee approval and space, with deadlines of June 1 for fall and November 1 for spring, but recent policy suspended new transfers except for siblings of enrolled students. If you are considering moving here specifically for the schools, confirm the current-year status before you rely on it.
Homeschooling is common in rural Texas and homeschooled Ellis County residents may compete at the Ellis County Youth Expo with proof of residence. No specific Maypearl co-op is documented.
Inside the city limits, Maypearl ISD is the answer and there is nothing to look up. But the district covers 84 square miles against a town of 0.81, and rural school boundaries in Ellis County were drawn around old common school districts rather than modern city lines. A parcel you find searching Maypearl could sit in Italy, Waxahachie or Midlothian ISD, or, this close to the county line, in Grandview or Venus ISD in Johnson County or Itasca ISD in Hill County. Pull the parcel at the Ellis Appraisal District and read the taxing units. That list names the district, and it is the legal answer.
Maypearl ISD adopted $0.9698 per $100 for 2025, being $0.6964 for operations and $0.2734 for debt. Against the neighbours on a $400,000 home before exemptions, that is roughly $374 a year less than Red Oak ISD, $404 less than Midlothian, $632 less than Cedar Hill, $793 less than Waxahachie and $1,022 less than DeSoto. On a $600,000 home the gap runs from about $561 to $1,532. That is a durable, quantifiable advantage, and it is the strongest financial argument for buying here.
The Maypearl school opened in 1904, a year after the railroad arrived, and served as the high school for a ring of surrounding communities whose own schools stopped at seventh grade: Auburn, Bee Creek, Greathouse, Buena Vista, Oak Branch, Ozro and Griffith. The Ozro school ran from 1915 until it consolidated into Maypearl ISD in 1944. Most of those places are cemeteries now. The district is what is left of all of them.
Accountability ratings are intentionally not shown on the campus cards. State letter grades and third-party scores change annually and a single year rarely reflects what a campus is actually like. For current ratings go to TXschools.gov, or GreatSchools and Niche for third-party scores. Several items could not be verified and are flagged rather than guessed: who W.G. Roesler was and when the stadium was built, whether Maypearl ISD offers a local optional homestead exemption beyond the state minimum, Italy ISD's current tax rate, and whether any district territory crosses into Hill or Johnson County, which state records place entirely in Ellis County. Older sources including Wikipedia and NCES still list four campuses; the district's own current materials list three, which is what is used here. Enrollment and finance figures derive from 2023 through 2025 data years and may lag the current school year. Football classification varies between 3A Division I and Division II by realignment cycle. The 2023 bond of $35 million funded campus additions that opened in fall 2025; no new bond is documented as pending. Confirm any specific address with the district and with the Ellis Central Appraisal District before acting on it. This information is provided for general reference only and is not a recommendation regarding any school, campus, district, neighbourhood or property. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Median Sales Price
What Maypearl homes actually sold for each month, not what sellers hoped to get. Start with the closed sales tab first, because in a town of 939 people the volume is what makes every other number readable.
This is the smallest market covered on this site. A single acreage sale, or one month with no closings at all, moves this line hard. Read the twelve month shape, not the last data point.
A three-bedroom in town and forty acres on FM 157 are not the same market, but they land in the same median. Price against genuinely comparable property, which in Maypearl often means looking outside the city limits.
Watch this line rather than a portal estimate. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so sale prices are not public record and everything you see on a national site is a model rather than a recorded figure.
Country property takes longer than tract housing everywhere, because the buyer who wants acreage, a shop and a well is a narrower buyer. Do not read a long market time here the way you would read one in Red Oak.
Set expectations before you list. A property with land, outbuildings or a septic system is competing for a specific person rather than for everyone driving by, and that person may take a few months to show up.
Longer market time usually means room to negotiate, and it means you have time to do this properly: the septic inspection, the well test, the survey and the school district check on the actual parcel.
Under 10 showings means buyers are deciding quickly. Higher counts are common with land, because every tract genuinely is different and people compare carefully before committing.
This separates a pricing problem from a presentation problem. Plenty of showings and no offer usually means something specific is putting people off, and that is fixable before you lose more market time.
High showings-to-pending means you can be selective without losing homes. Read it against days on market: low on both is a hot market, high on both means the leverage is yours.
Everything else on this page is calculated from these closings. Read the actual monthly count off this chart before you trust any median, because at low volume a median is arithmetic rather than information.
Rising prices with rising volume is a genuine seller's market. Rising prices with falling volume means momentum is weakening, and that distinction matters more in a small market than a large one.
Low volume is not a warning sign. It is what a town of 939 people on acreage looks like. It does mean the property you want may only come available once or twice a year, so be ready when it does.
Charts supplied by NTREIS via 10K Research and Marketing and update automatically. Data reflects residential activity reported to the MLS and may be revised as late-reported sales come in. Maypearl is the smallest market covered on this site, so treat every monthly figure as directional and rely on twelve month trends; check the closed sales tab for the actual count behind any month before drawing a conclusion from it. These charts do not separate homes in town from acreage outside the city limits, which are effectively two different markets: property inside the city has city water and city sewer, while property outside is generally on a well or a rural water corporation and a private septic system, and much of what is marketed as Maypearl carries a Waxahachie 75167 mailing address. They also do not separate raw land from improved property. Some rural transactions, including land sold privately between neighbours, never appear in MLS counts at all. Market statistics describe the area as a whole and are not a substitute for a comparative market analysis on a specific property. Texas is a non-disclosure state, so publicly available sale prices elsewhere are estimates rather than recorded figures. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Pick a purchase year and the price fills in with what a typical home in this ZIP cost that year. If you own here, type over it with what you actually paid. Read the two warnings below the chart before you take any of it too seriously, because this tool fits an in-town home far better than it fits acreage.
Bought here? Tap the number and enter what you paid.
Federal house price index growth, indexed to the purchase year, where the purchase year equals 100.
Zillow publishes a city-level index for towns as small as Ovilla. It does not publish one for Maypearl, because 939 people and roughly two or three closings a month cannot produce a stable number. The page that looks like Maypearl on Zillow is actually the 76064 ZIP code, currently $363,218 as of December 31, 2025, and that is what this calculator is anchored to. It is the honest available figure, and it covers more ground than the city does.
The federal index tracks repeat sales financed with conforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages. Maypearl's actual product is land and acreage, bought heavily with cash, USDA loans, or notes from Capital Farm Credit and Texas Farm Credit. The index cannot see a cash land purchase or a Farm Credit note. Use this tool for an in-town home on a conventional loan. For acreage, read the land block below instead, and call me for real numbers.
Ellis County sits in Texas A&M's Region 4, Northeast Texas, for rural land tracking. Median price per acre on large rural tracts in that region ran near $10,289 in early 2025, up 11 percent year over year, on a five-year growth rate around 9.7 percent. Statewide the median hit $5,214 an acre at the end of 2025 with a five-year annualised growth rate of 10.73 percent, a record.
Locally the small tracts actually trading around Maypearl run far higher per acre than the regional figure, near $26,600 an acre on land listings and about $33,600 on houses with land, because a five-acre homesite near town is a different product from a four-hundred-acre ranch. Both numbers are true. They measure different things.
Growth rates are the FHFA All-Transactions House Price Index, annual values 2009 through 2025: Ellis County, Texas (FRED series ATNHPIUS48139A), the State of Texas (TXSTHPI) and the United States (USSTHPI). State and national figures are annual averages of the four published quarters. The prefilled dollar figures are derived, not published. They are calculated by applying the Ellis County index to the Zillow Home Value Index for ZIP 76064 of $363,218, observed December 31, 2025 and up 1.0 percent year over year. This is a ZIP-level figure and not a Maypearl city figure, because Zillow does not publish one for a town this small. Entering your own purchase price replaces the estimate entirely. Current value estimates for this area span roughly $305,000 to $612,000 depending on the source, because they measure different things: Redfin's recent median sale was $335,000 on a sample of three closings, the Census five-year median owner-occupied value is $335,300 with a margin of error of nearly $63,000, and Movoto's median list price of $612,000 reflects acreage listings rather than closings. Treat any single figure with caution. Two structural limitations specific to Maypearl. First, the county index is built from conforming conventional mortgages and therefore excludes cash purchases, land loans, USDA loans and agricultural lender financing, which together account for a large share of activity here. Second, western and northwestern acreage marketed as Maypearl may sit across the line in Johnson or Hill County, whose indexes differ. Equity figures assume a 30-year fixed mortgage at that year's Freddie Mac annual average rate, held to today, with no refinancing, no extra principal and no additional borrowing. They exclude closing costs, property taxes, insurance, maintenance, improvements and selling costs. The zero percent down option is included because Maypearl is USDA Rural Development eligible, which permits no down payment subject to household income limits; confirm any specific address on the USDA eligibility map. This is an illustration for general reference, not an appraisal, a comparative market analysis, a valuation or investment advice. Past appreciation does not predict future appreciation. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Maypearl sits almost exactly between downtown Dallas and downtown Fort Worth, roughly forty miles from each. There is no interstate frontage, no transit of any kind, and the nearest freeway ramp is eleven miles east. What you get instead is land, the lowest school tax rate in the area, and a commute you should think hard about before you sign.
Those are off-peak numbers, and Maypearl adds a wrinkle most suburbs do not: eleven miles of two-lane farm road before you reach a freeway at all. In rush hour, plan on 60 to 75 minutes into downtown Dallas and roughly an hour into Fort Worth, each way. The census bears it out. Mean travel time to work here is 38.5 minutes against a national 26.4, and about six percent of workers commute more than ninety minutes.
Maypearl qualifies for USDA Rural Development financing, and that is one of the most valuable facts on this page. No down payment, no mortgage insurance, competitive fixed rates, subject to household income limits that run around $122,800 for a family of four. Confirm the specific address on the USDA map, because eligibility can change street by street.
Maypearl ISD adopted $0.9698 per $100 for 2025. Against the neighbours on a $400,000 home that is roughly $374 a year less than Red Oak, $793 less than Waxahachie and $1,022 less than DeSoto. Every year you own it.
Unusual for a place this rural, and a real advantage. Inside the city limits the city provides both, running its own groundwater system. Outside the limits you are on a well or a rural water corporation and a private septic system, which changes your costs and your inspections.
No bus, no rail, no park and ride, nothing. STAR Transit covers parts of Ellis County for demand-response and medical trips but runs nothing resembling commuter service out here. The nearest scheduled transit boarding is twenty-five to thirty-five miles north. Households here average two cars and both of them get used.
FM 66 runs east to Waxahachie and west toward Files Valley and Itasca. FM 157 ends here and runs north through Venus toward Mansfield. That is the whole highway network. I-35E is about eleven miles east and I-35W is farther west. Loop 9, which is reshaping Glenn Heights and Red Oak, does not reach this far and will not change any of it.
Both downtowns sit about forty miles out and both run forty-five to fifty minutes off-peak. The roads tilt slightly toward Dallas, since FM 66 gives a cleaner run to I-35E, while Fort Worth means more two-lane road first. If your household has one commuter each direction, this is one of the few places that works.
Browsing, or actually moving? Either is fine. Send me an address and I will tell you whether it is inside the city limits, what that means for water and septic, which school district it lands in, and whether it qualifies for USDA financing.
Browse Maypearl homes →Drive times are approximate off-peak estimates measured from central Maypearl near Main Street and FM 66, compiled from routing and distance sources rather than a single live measurement, so confirm your own route before relying on any of them. The Waxahachie, Dallas and Fort Worth figures are the best corroborated; Cedar Hill, Hillsboro and the Stockyards are lighter-sourced and worth spot-checking. Rush hour figures are informed estimates rather than measured samples. Commute statistics are American Community Survey figures for Maypearl, where the small population produces wide margins of error. No published daytime population or worker inflow figure exists for a town this size. STAR Transit's willingness to serve a Maypearl origin was not confirmed at the trip level, so transit should be treated as effectively nonexistent for commuting purposes. USDA Rural Development eligibility is confirmed for Maypearl by population threshold and by active eligible listings in ZIP 76064, but eligibility is address-specific and income limits change; verify on the official USDA map and with a lender. The income limit cited is the standard moderate-income guaranteed loan limit effective July 2026 and varies by household size. Tax rates are 2025 adopted rates and reset each autumn; comparisons are before exemptions. Water service, septic status, school district and city limits all vary parcel by parcel and must be verified by address. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
These are the questions people actually ask about a town of 939 people, starting with the one everybody asks first. Several answers change depending on whether the property sits inside the city limits or outside them, which is the single most consequential line in this market.
Yes. Maypearl runs its own municipal police department at 104 E Second Street, 972-435-3671, under Chief John Shelton. The city did not contract its law enforcement out to the county.
Practically, a department this size cannot staff every hour alone, so the Ellis County Sheriff's 24-hour dispatch at 972-937-6060 handles after-hours calls and backs up overlapping ones. That is effectively your non-emergency number outside business hours.
Separately, Maypearl ISD operates its own school district police department under Chief Garland Wolf at the high school. Two different agencies, which surprises people.
By the raw numbers, remarkably so. AreaVibes, working from 2024 FBI data, recorded zero violent crimes and three property crimes for the entire year: one burglary, one theft and one vehicle theft. That puts the overall rate roughly 86 percent below the national average.
One honest caveat. At counts that low, any percentage or per-100,000 figure is statistically fragile, and different sources use different population denominators. Read the absolute numbers, which are three.
Fire protection comes from Maypearl Fire-Rescue at 750 N Main Street, 972-435-2411, a volunteer department operating as Ellis County Emergency Services District Number 1. It is unusual in that the ESD is the direct service provider rather than contracting the work out.
Ambulance transport is separate. Allegiance Mobile Health holds the county-wide contract, awarded in November 2023 after American Medical Response gave notice it was terminating service, with a term running through September 2027.
Worth asking your insurance agent about the department's ISO rating. ISO does not release those publicly, only to insurers and fire officials, and it affects your premium.
For a home inside the city limits the stack runs roughly $1.86 per $100, which is about $5,590 a year on a $300,000 home and $7,450 on a $400,000 home, before exemptions.
The pieces: the City of Maypearl at about $0.50, Maypearl ISD at $0.9698, Ellis County at $0.273992, the county lateral road tax at $0.019670, and Emergency Services District Number 1 at $0.10.
Two things worth knowing. There is no hospital district and no junior college district levying here, which several neighbouring areas have. And whether ESD Number 1 taxes inside the incorporated city limits is genuinely ambiguous, since the ESD is the city's own fire department, so verify that line on the specific parcel with the tax office.
Favourably, on both halves of the bill.
On city rates, Maypearl is the lowest of its peer set at about $0.50, against Glenn Heights at $0.565, Waxahachie at $0.61, Ovilla at $0.6262, Midlothian at $0.65 and Red Oak at $0.6969.
On school rates, which drive most of the bill, Maypearl ISD at $0.9698 is lower than Midlothian ISD and well under Waxahachie ISD at $1.1681.
Net effect: Maypearl generally lands at the low end of the Ellis County tax burden. Rural buyers trade differently, dropping the city rate but picking up the ESD rate.
This is the question behind half of this page. Maypearl covers about 0.81 square miles, and a great deal of what gets marketed as Maypearl sits outside that in unincorporated Ellis County.
Inside the limits: city water, city sewer and city trash, all billed through City Hall, plus city zoning and permits and city police.
Outside the limits: a private well or a rural water corporation, a private septic system, no city services, no city zoning, and the Sheriff rather than city police. You also drop the city tax rate and pick up the ESD rate.
Neither is better. They are different purchases. Confirm which one you are making before you write.
Inside the city, the City of Maypearl provides both water and sewer, running its own groundwater system. That is genuinely unusual for a town this rural and it is a real advantage over acreage on a well.
Outside the city, service comes from Mountain Peak Special Utility District at 5671 Waterworks Road in Midlothian, 972-775-3765, from Files Valley Water Supply Corporation administered through HILCO, or from a private well. Both corporations may require a membership or capital cost for new service on top of the monthly bill.
City bills are due the 15th of each month by 5pm with a $25 late penalty, and cash payments can be made at Cowboy Bank on Main Street. The published rate schedule sits in a document on the city site, so call the utility clerk at 972-435-2380 for current per-gallon figures.
If the property is outside the city limits, it is almost certainly on septic. Get the system inspected during your option period as a separate line item, not as part of a general home inspection.
If it is an aerobic system, ask for the maintenance contract. Those require ongoing scheduled inspections and that is a recurring annual cost most buyers do not budget for. A failed system has to be replaced to code, which is a major expense.
On a well, test water quality for bacteria and nitrates at minimum, and confirm depth, pump condition and registration. Septic rules run through TCEQ administered by Ellis County, and minimum lot size requirements apply, so confirm both for the specific tract.
It depends on the parcel, and this is the most confused utility question in Maypearl.
Inside town and across most of the ZIP, Oncor is the delivery utility and the market is deregulated, so you shop for a retail provider through Power to Choose, the official state site. Oncor handles outages at 888-313-4747.
But rural tracts in western Ellis County are served by HILCO Electric Cooperative at 800-338-6425, which is a member-owned co-op and not deregulated. On a HILCO meter you cannot shop for a rate at all.
Confirm the provider before you assume anything about your electric bill, because the two work completely differently.
Both, depending where you are. Atmos Energy serves the gas main at 888-286-6700, with a 24-hour leak line at 866-322-8667.
Beyond the main, which is most acreage, propane is standard. That changes your monthly cost, your appliance options and whether you are managing a tank. Confirm which one applies at the specific address rather than assuming.
Inside the city, the City of Maypearl handles water, sewer and regular trash directly through its own utility department rather than contracting to a hauler. Electric, gas and special dumpster needs are separate.
The city also runs a twice-yearly city-wide cleanup with home pickup of larger items, which is the practical answer for anything bulky. Outside the city limits you arrange your own service.
Better than you might expect, though it varies sharply by address.
Nextlink and Rise Broadband fixed wireless reach about 99 percent of Maypearl, which is the practical answer for most rural properties. Fiber exists but only partially, through AT&T Fiber and through United Cooperative Services, which like many electric co-ops has built fiber in its territory.
Satellite fills the rest, including Starlink, Viasat and HughesNet, plus T-Mobile Home Internet. If you work from home, check the exact street address with each provider before you write.
All in Waxahachie, roughly eleven to thirteen miles east. There is no hospital, emergency room, urgent care or pharmacy inside Maypearl.
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Waxahachie at 2400 N I-35E, 469-843-4000, is the nearest hospital and 24-hour emergency room. Baylor Scott & White Urgent Care at 1005 Legacy Ranch Road handles walk-ins, eight to eight most days.
Pharmacies are all in Waxahachie as well, or at Italy Family Pharmacy to the south. On acreage, knowing your actual drive time to an emergency room is worth doing once before you need it.
Not in town, for either small animals or large.
Small animal: Midlothian, about thirteen miles, including an emergency clinic at 1507 N Highway 67 at 214-817-1880.
Large animal and equine: Youngblood Equine at 5321 E FM 916 in Grandview, 817-734-6363, with other mixed and equine practices across Ellis and Johnson counties.
If you are moving livestock or horses here, establish the relationship before you move them rather than during an emergency. That is the most practical advice on this page for an acreage buyer.
Neither. Residents use the Nicholas P. Sims Library at 515 W Main Street in Waxahachie, a non-profit that has served all of Ellis County since 1905, about eleven miles out. Confirm nonresident card terms directly with them.
On transit, there is nothing. No bus, no rail, no park and ride. STAR Transit covers parts of Ellis County for demand-response and medical trips but runs no fixed route out here, and the nearest scheduled transit boarding is twenty-five to thirty-five miles north. Plan on driving everywhere.
Three things to check, all normal for this part of Texas.
Soil. Maypearl sits on Blackland Prairie expansive clay, which swells when saturated and shrinks in drought, stressing slab foundations. Watch for stair-step brick cracks, sticking doors and sloping floors, and get an independent foundation inspection during your option period. Standard Texas homeowners policies generally exclude clay-driven foundation movement.
Hail and wind. North Texas sits in a heavy hail corridor, which raises premiums and makes roof age a serious inspection item rather than a formality.
Water. Chambers Creek and its branches drain this area, and some rural parcels touch floodplain. Check the address at the FEMA Flood Map Service Center and review the survey for drainage easements, which on acreage can make part of a tract unusable without appearing in the listing.
Barely, and honestly that is part of the appeal for people who buy here. The 2020 Census counted 939 residents, up from 934 in 2010. Essentially flat across a decade while everything east of here exploded.
Projections disagree about the direction. One demographic service projects a decline to about 895 by 2026, another estimates 976 as of mid-2025. Neither describes a boom.
Growth pressure radiates outward from Waxahachie, Midlothian and Venus along the I-35E corridor, but eleven miles of farm road has so far kept most of it from arriving.
Yes, and it works at a scale that fits the town. The Maypearl Economic Development Corporation runs Type A and Type B sales tax corporations supporting business development and community projects.
Its grant programme caps at $25,000 with a 25 percent match from the applicant. The most visible recent result is Drew's BBQ and Eatery at 220 N Main, which the Dallas Morning News reported was approved for an MEDC grant before opening in February 2025.
For a town of 939, a functioning grant programme that helped put a barbecue restaurant into a hundred-year-old downtown building is a reasonable measure of civic health.
Maypearl is a General Law Type A city with a mayor and council. Mayor Chance Lynch was re-elected in May 2025, and council meets the second Monday of each month.
City Hall at 104 E Second Street, 972-435-2380, handles permits and inspections, planning and zoning, code enforcement, animal control and the municipal court. One number reaches nearly everything.
Permits are generally required for new structures, and if you are planning a barn, shop, fence or pool, confirm the requirements with the permit office before you build rather than after. On property outside the city limits, city permitting does not apply at all, which is its own consideration.
Possibly, and this is one of the most valuable facts on the page. Maypearl is USDA Rural Development eligible, which permits zero down payment with no mortgage insurance at competitive fixed rates, subject to household income limits running around $122,800 for a family of four.
Eligibility is address-specific and can change street by street at the edges, so confirm the exact property on the official USDA map and with a lender before counting on it.
For land and acreage, the path is different. Capital Farm Credit and Texas Farm Credit are the dominant lenders for raw land, recreational acreage and rural homesites, both borrower-owned cooperatives that return patronage dividends. Expect meaningfully higher down payments on raw land than on a house.
A fair amount, and that is more or less the deal. No hospital, no emergency room, no pharmacy, no library, no transit, no veterinarian, no coffee shop, no ice cream, no nursery and no major retail.
What it does have, for a town of 939, is more than you would expect: two barbecue joints, a cafe, a pizzeria, a burrito window, two bars, a donut shop, a hardware and feed store, a full grocery and a bank, nearly all on two blocks of Main Street.
Everything else is a drive. Waxahachie is about eleven miles and Midlothian about thirteen, and between them they cover the gaps. If that trade does not work for you, this is not the town, and better to know that now.
Nobody can answer that precisely here, and anyone who claims otherwise is guessing.
Zillow does not publish a city-level home value index for Maypearl, because the town is too small and too thinly traded. The figure that looks like Maypearl is actually the 76064 ZIP code at $363,218, up 1.0 percent as of December 2025.
Roughly two to three homes sell here in a typical month. Redfin's recent figures show a 31 percent year-over-year swing built on three closings, which is arithmetic rather than appreciation. The Census five-year median owner-occupied value is $335,300 with a margin of error near $63,000, and Movoto's median list price of $612,000 reflects acreage listings rather than sales.
The honest answer is a range from roughly $305,000 to $612,000 depending on what is being measured, and that Texas is a non-disclosure state so none of the portal figures are records of what actually changed hands.
Question not answered here? Ask it directly. Send me an address and I will tell you whether it is inside the city limits, who delivers its water and electricity, and whether it qualifies for USDA financing.
Call 214-228-0003Answers observed September 2026. Several items could not be verified and are flagged rather than guessed: the City of Maypearl's exact 2025 adopted tax rate and its current water and sewer rate figures, both of which sit in documents on the city site rather than as text, so the city rate used here is the 2024 figure of about $0.50; the number of sworn officers at the police department, which the city does not publish; the fire department's ISO rating, which ISO does not release publicly; whether Emergency Services District Number 1 levies inside the incorporated city limits; and Ellis County's minimum lot size requirements for septic and current well drilling costs. Population projections conflict across sources; the 2020 Census figure of 939 is the firm anchor. Tax rates are adopted rates that reset each autumn, and 2025 state legislation increased school homestead and over-65 exemptions, which would reduce the school portion further. Electric provider, water provider, septic status, floodplain and city limits all vary parcel by parcel and must be verified by address. USDA eligibility is address-specific and income limits change by household size and year. Foundation repair costs and hail exposure are regional characteristics rather than property-specific findings. School information is provided for general reference and is not a recommendation regarding any school or district. Nothing here is legal, tax, insurance or investment advice. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Every official link a new resident needs, verified and searchable. Several entries depend on whether the property sits inside the city limits or outside them, so check that first and the rest follows.
104 E Second Street. One number reaches almost everything: utilities, permits, planning, code enforcement, animal control and the municipal court. Open 8 to 5 weekdays, closed 12:30 to 1:30.
Start water, sewer and trash if the property is inside the city limits. Bills are due the 15th by 5pm with a $25 late penalty, and cash payments can be made at Cowboy Bank on Main.
Yes, the city has its own, at 104 E Second Street under Chief John Shelton. After hours, calls route to the Ellis County Sheriff's 24-hour dispatch at 972-937-6060.
750 N Main Street. A volunteer department operating as Ellis County Emergency Services District Number 1, and unusual in being a direct provider rather than contracting out. Also runs the monthly food bank.
Permits are generally required for new structures. If you are planning a barn, shop, fence or pool, confirm before you build. Note that city permitting does not apply outside the city limits at all.
Council meets the second Monday of each month under Mayor Chance Lynch, re-elected May 2025. Agendas and minutes are posted here.
The Economic Development Corporation offers grants up to $25,000 with a 25 percent applicant match. Drew's BBQ was approved for one before opening in 2025. If you are bringing a business to Main Street, start here.
Check this before you assume anything. In town it is Oncor delivery on a deregulated market, so you shop through Power to Choose. On rural tracts it may be HILCO Electric Cooperative, which is not deregulated and where rate shopping does not exist.
Delivers the power and handles outages in the deregulated area. Not who you buy from. Text OUT to 66267 to report an outage.
The member-owned co-op serving rural western Ellis County. If your meter is HILCO, this is both your delivery utility and your provider, with no retail choice.
Natural gas where the main reaches. Beyond it, propane is standard on acreage. If you smell gas, leave first and call 911, then the emergency line at 866-322-8667.
One of two rural water providers outside the city limits, at 5671 Waterworks Road in Midlothian. New service may involve a membership or capital cost beyond the monthly bill.
The other rural water corporation, serving the area west toward Files Valley and administered through HILCO. Confirm which provider covers a specific parcel before closing.
The rules for septic systems, administered locally through Ellis County. Inspect the system during your option period as a separate item, and get the maintenance contract if it is aerobic.
Maypearl is USDA eligible, which can mean zero down and no mortgage insurance subject to income limits. Eligibility is address-specific and changes at the edges, so check the exact property here.
400 Ferris Avenue, Waxahachie. Your value, exemptions, agricultural valuation and protests. Also where you read the taxing units on a parcel, which is the legal answer to which district and ESD apply.
Pay property taxes and register a vehicle. Also publishes the annual rate tables, which is where to confirm whether the ESD line applies to a specific parcel.
Save this number. The 24-hour dispatch line is effectively Maypearl's after-hours non-emergency number, and the Sheriff is primary law enforcement outside the city limits.
County clerk for deeds and records, elections administration and county services. The county seat is Waxahachie.
Free to file with Ellis CAD, generally before April 30, and the single biggest thing new owners forget. Over-65 and disabled exemptions plus a tax freeze are also available.
Ag valuation does not transfer when you buy; you must reapply with Ellis CAD. Taking land out of qualifying use triggers rollback tax, so get a written estimate before you change anything.
Chambers Creek and its branches drain this area and some rural parcels touch floodplain. Check the address, then review the survey for drainage easements, which on acreage can make part of a tract unusable.
The sole district in town, with three campuses: LSK Elementary for PK through 4, Maypearl Middle for 5 through 8, and Maypearl High at 600 Phillips Street. The 2025 rate of $0.9698 is the lowest in the area.
In town it is always Maypearl ISD. But the district covers 84 square miles against a town of 0.81, and a rural parcel could sit in Italy, Waxahachie or Midlothian ISD, or across a county line. Read the taxing units at Ellis CAD.
State accountability ratings straight from the Texas Education Agency, updated annually.
Dual credit through the Panther Academy runs with Navarro, where students can finish high school holding an associate degree. Note that Ellis County is outside the Navarro taxing district, so out-of-district tuition applies.
The nearest hospital and 24-hour emergency room, at 2400 N I-35E, about eleven to thirteen miles east. Urgent care at 1005 Legacy Ranch Road handles walk-ins.
No vet operates in Maypearl. This equine practice at 5321 E FM 916 in Grandview is the nearest large animal option. Call before you move horses here, not during an emergency.
Midlothian, about thirteen miles, including an emergency clinic at 1507 N Highway 67. Worth programming into your phone before you need it.
The organiser of nearly everything that happens here: Antique Alley in April and September, Christmas in Maypearl, the Easter Egg Hunt, Trunk or Treat, and monthly Depot Days and Ladies Night. The authoritative calendar for the town.
Maypearl has no library. This one at 515 W Main Street in Waxahachie has served all of Ellis County since 1905, about eleven miles out. Confirm nonresident card terms directly.
Third Saturday of every month, 9 to 11am, at 750 N Main Street. Run through the fire department, and a standing commitment rather than an annual event.
Where Maypearl FFA students show each spring, at the Ellis County Expo Center in Waxahachie. Homeschooled Ellis County residents may compete with proof of residence.
The Waxahachie Daily Light, the Waxahachie Sun, the Ellis County Press and Focus Daily News all cover Maypearl council business and county road projects. No larger outlet does.
Register and title a vehicle within 30 days of moving, filed through the Ellis County tax office.
Transfer an out-of-state license within 90 days. The nearest DPS office is in Waxahachie.
Register to vote through Ellis County Elections. Registration closes 30 days before an election.
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Inside the city limits or outside? It decides your water, your sewer, your zoning, your permits, whether city police or the Sheriff responds, and which lines appear on your tax bill. Oncor or HILCO? One lets you shop for an electricity rate and one does not, and the answer changes parcel by parcel. Septic or city sewer, and does the land carry ag valuation? A septic inspection belongs in your option period as its own line item, and ag valuation does not transfer when you buy. Everything else on this page follows from those three answers.
Links verified September 2026. City Hall at 972-435-2380 handles utilities, permits, planning, code enforcement, animal control and the municipal court; the police department is 972-435-3671 during business hours, with the Ellis County Sheriff at 972-937-6060 covering after hours. Several items could not be verified and should be confirmed directly: the City of Maypearl's current water and sewer rate figures and its exact 2025 adopted tax rate, both of which sit in documents rather than as text on the city site; the number of sworn police officers, which the city does not publish; the fire department's ISO rating, which ISO releases only to insurers and fire officials; whether Emergency Services District Number 1 levies inside the incorporated city limits; city park addresses and amenities; and Ellis County's minimum lot size requirements for septic. One directory listing circulates an unofficial Maypearl police number that no official source corroborates; the numbers above come from the city and county directly. Government sites reorganise page paths periodically, so confirm any link that does not resolve. This directory is provided for general reference and is not an endorsement of any organisation or service. Bobby Franklin, REALTOR®, TREC #0805459, Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team.
Everything on this page was researched, verified and written here, not licensed from a national content service. The tax stack came from the county. The utility map came from the city and the co-op. The businesses were checked one at a time.
Maypearl covers 0.81 square miles and the district covers 84. That line decides your water, your sewer, your zoning, your permits, whether city police or the Sheriff responds, and which lines land on your tax bill. It also decides whether you are on a well and a septic system. I check it on every address before I say anything else about a property here, because almost nothing else is answerable until I do.
Same ZIP code, two completely different electric utilities. In town it is Oncor on a deregulated market where you shop for a rate. On rural tracts it can be HILCO Electric Cooperative, member-owned and not deregulated, where shopping does not exist. Most agents outside this area do not know that distinction is here at all, and a buyer finds out after closing.
Texas is a non-disclosure state, so sale prices are not public record. Maypearl makes it worse: Zillow does not publish a city index at all because two or three homes sell in a typical month, and the figure you find is actually the ZIP. Portal estimates for this area currently spread from about $305,000 to $612,000. I pull closed prices from the MLS, and I can tell you which of those were land and which were houses.
There is no hospital, no pharmacy, no library, no transit and no veterinarian here. If the answer is that Waxahachie suits you better, or that the septic is at the end of its life, or that the ag rollback exposure on a tract makes it a bad deal at the asking price, you will hear it from me before you hear it at the inspection.
Maypearl is USDA Rural Development eligible, which can mean zero down and no mortgage insurance subject to income limits. That is the single most underused advantage out here, and eligibility is address-specific so it has to be checked on the actual property. Second, if you are buying acreage rather than a house, the financing path runs through Capital Farm Credit or Texas Farm Credit rather than a conventional lender, with meaningfully higher down payments on raw land. Sort out which path you are on before you fall in love with a tract.
Ask them about USDA eligibility early in Maypearl, and about what an existing well or septic system changes in an appraisal. I recommend these lenders based on their expertise and service. I do not receive compensation for referrals.
Either is fine. I answer my own phone, and there is no version of this where you get routed to a call centre or handed to a junior agent. Send me an address and I will tell you whether it is inside the city limits, who delivers its water and electricity, which school district it lands in, and whether it qualifies for USDA financing.
Bobby Franklin, REALTOR® · Legacy Realty Group – Leslie Majors Team · 214-228-0003 · northtexasmarketinsider.com
Information on this page is provided for general reference and is not legal, tax, insurance or investment advice. Market data, tax rates, utility service areas, school boundaries and USDA eligibility change; confirm anything specific to an address before acting on it. USDA income limits vary by household size and program year. School information is not a recommendation regarding any school, district, neighbourhood or property. All real estate services are provided through Legacy Realty Group. Equal Housing Opportunity.
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