A new-build bedroom community on Lake Lavon, with an honest 34-minute commute.
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Lavon is a small Collin County town on the shore of Lavon Lake, and it is a bedroom community in the plainest sense: the Lavon EDC’s own list of major employers tops out at a pipe-and-valve supplier with about 20 people. Almost everyone who lives here drives somewhere else to work. What Lavon offers instead is new construction in two master-planned communities (Grand Heritage and Elevon), a Corps of Engineers lake at the end of the road, and prices below the cities to its west. What it does not offer is a freeway.
New-construction master-planned communities and lake access, in an exurb with almost no local employment base
Summers are hot and sunny with highs in the mid-to-upper 90s°F. Winters stay mild - expect 50°F afternoons mixed with the occasional cold snap. North Texas averages 229 sunny days, roughly 41 inches of rain, and minimal snow each year.
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A master-planned community near SH-78 and SH-205. Builder marketing describes an amenity center and a resort-style pool. Builder-published price ranges (Bloomfield Homes quotes the mid-$300s to the low $600s) are marketing figures, not verified sale data, so treat them as a starting point, not a comp.
A large multi-builder master-planned community still building out, with D.R. Horton, M/I Homes, HistoryMaker, UnionMain, Trophy Signature, K. Hovnanian and Pacesetter all active. Acreage and lot-count figures vary by source and are not stated here.
Understanding Lavon's community composition helps buyers match lifestyle preferences with neighborhood character. The figures below reference recent American Community Survey estimates and city planning reports.
Total Population
≈6,500
ACS 2024 5-year estimate (Census Reporter). This averages 2020-2024 and lags a fast-growing town. The 2020 Census counted 4,469, and the Lavon EDC now states the city exceeds 10,000.
Median Household Income
≈$131,000
ACS 2024 5-year estimate, margin of error ±$27,315, so the true figure could plausibly sit anywhere from roughly $104K to $159K. A small-place estimate; do not treat it as precise.
Median Age
≈34
ACS 2024 5-year estimate (33.9), margin of error ±5.6 years, which is wide even for a median age.
Homeownership
≈90%
Share of occupied housing units that are owner-occupied, ACS 2024 5-year as published by Data USA. The prior year’s figure was 86.4%.
NeSmith Elementary School (PreK-5)Elementary
A Community ISD elementary campus located in Lavon.
Dodson Elementary School (PreK-5)Elementary
A Community ISD elementary campus located in Lavon.
Community Trails Middle School (6-8)Middle
The Community ISD middle school campus located in Lavon.
Community High School (9-12)High
The district’s high school, in Nevada, TX, a short drive out of Lavon. Community ISD has one high school.
Other Community ISD campusesAll
The district also operates Carlene McClendon Elementary and Edge Middle School in Nevada, and Ellis and Roderick Elementary in Josephine. Attendance zones do not follow city limits. Check any specific address against the district’s own zone lookup, and re-verify campus assignments each August, because CISD is adding capacity fast.
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Answers to common questions about living, buying, and relocating to Lavon, Texas.
Community ISD (CISD). The City of Lavon states Lavon is in Community ISD, which also serves Copeville, Josephine and Nevada across roughly 89 square miles, with district administration in Nevada, TX. NeSmith Elementary, Dodson Elementary and Community Trails Middle School are in Lavon; Community High School (the district’s high school) is in Nevada. ISD boundaries do not follow city limits exactly, so verify any specific address against the district’s own attendance-zone lookup before you rely on it.
Zillow’s Home Value Index for Lavon was about $347,000 in May 2026, down roughly 7% year over year. That figure is a smoothed index of typical home value, not a median sale price, and there is a reason we are giving you an index rather than a clean median. Lavon is a thin, builder-dominated market where a handful of closings in a month can swing the median by tens of thousands of dollars. Builders in Grand Heritage advertise ranges from the mid-$300s upward, but those are marketing figures, not closed sales. Anyone quoting you one precise number for “the price of a home in Lavon” is overstating what the data supports.
Long, and honestly so. The ACS 2024 5-year estimate puts the mean commute for Lavon workers at 34.3 minutes (±3.5), meaningfully above the DFW metro average, and that average includes short local trips, so a daily drive to Plano or Dallas runs longer. There is no freeway in Lavon. Everything moves on SH-78 through Wylie or on SH-205, and both congest at peak. There is no rail service. We deliberately do not quote a minutes-to-Plano figure, because no credible source supports one; drive it yourself on a weekday morning instead.
Yes, completely, and it is worth saying plainly. The Lavon EDC’s own major-employers page lists the largest private employer in the area as Cohn-Gregory Company, a pipe, valve and fitting supplier, at about 20 employees. The rest of the local job base is the school district, city services and small retail. Virtually everyone who lives in Lavon works somewhere else: Wylie, Plano, Richardson, Garland, McKinney or Dallas.
Two master-planned communities dominate: Grand Heritage, near SH-78 and SH-205, with an amenity center and resort-style pool; and Elevon, a large multi-builder community still building out, with D.R. Horton, M/I Homes, HistoryMaker, UnionMain, Trophy Signature, K. Hovnanian and Pacesetter all active. Lavon does have other smaller and older subdivisions, but we only name what we can verify from a credible non-listing source, so those are left off rather than invented.
The town sits on it. Lavon Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the East Fork of the Trinity River. It supplies water to the North Texas Municipal Water District’s member cities and provides flood control for Collin, Dallas and Rockwall counties. The Corps operates 15 lakeside parks with boat ramps. Lavonia Park, off Lake Road in Lavon, is the closest access: boat ramps, picnic sites, a swim beach and camping, with day-use and camping fees. Being near the lake and owning lakefront are different things, though, so confirm what any given lot actually backs onto.
It depends on which number you trust, and both are defensible. The ACS 2024 5-year estimate says about 6,500 residents, but a 5-year estimate averages 2020 through 2024 and badly lags a growing town. For context, the 2020 Census counted 4,469, and the Lavon EDC now states the city exceeds 10,000. No single current, verified point-in-time count was available, so we will not publish one. The honest summary: Lavon is small, and it is growing fast.
Anyone who needs a short commute, a local job, walkable retail, or transit. There is no freeway, no rail, and no employer of consequence inside the city. If your priority is being close to work in Dallas or the Telecom Corridor, Lavon will cost you an hour a day of your life. Buy here because you want new construction near a lake at a price the cities to the west no longer offer, and go in with your eyes open about the drive.
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Every public campus inside Lavon city limits, with the letter grade and score the Texas Education Agency published for it in 2025. Enrolment and grades come straight from TEA's accountability download and the federal school directory, so nothing here is a third-party score that nobody refreshes.
Lavon is split across 2 school districts. Two houses on the same street can feed different districts, and boundaries in this corridor get redrawn most years as new campuses open. Confirm the assignment for the exact address with the district before you write an offer - and if the school is a reason you are buying, ask Mali to put the district's written confirmation in your file.
Collin County · 2 campuses in town
Collin County · zones part of town, no campus here
Community ISD covers 89 square miles across Copeville, Josephine, Lavon and Nevada, and Wylie ISD zones ground on the Lavon side of that line - which side a given address falls on is the district's call, not the city's.
Community ISD · Grades PreK-5
Community ISD · Grades PreK-5
Lavon homes are taxed by 4 separate governments, and the combined 2025 adopted rate is 1.86% per year of appraised value. That is the number before any exemption and before the special districts below - which is why the figure on a listing page and the figure on your first tax bill are so rarely the same.
| Taxing unit | Rate per $100 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Community ISD | 1.207700 | 65% |
| City of Lavon | 0.420000 | 23% |
| Collin County | 0.149343 | 8% |
| College district | 0.081220 | 4% |
| Combined | 1.858263 | 100% |
Collin County has no hospital district, which is the main structural reason its cities run below their Dallas County neighbours rather than anything about how Lavon budgets.
Starts at the Lavon median single-family value.
No exemption
$6,469
What an investor or second-home owner pays.
With homestead
$4,674
Effective rate 1.3428% of market value.
You keep
$1,794
Per year, once the exemption is filed and granted.
| Unit | Exemption | Taxed on | Tax |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community ISD | $140,000 | $208,100 | $2,513 |
| City | $5,000 | $343,100 | $1,441 |
| County | $17,405 | $330,695 | $494 |
| College district | $69,620 | $278,480 | $226 |
Every school district in Texas must exempt $140,000 of a homestead's value. Cities, counties and college districts may each adopt up to 20% on top, and several here adopt nothing at all - which is why this has to be worked out one unit at a time rather than netted against the combined rate. Year one is billed at full market value; the 10% appraisal cap starts the January after your exemption is granted.
Collin County has 28 special districts levying their own rate on top of everything above - 23 Municipal Utility Districts, 3 Municipal Management Districts, 1 Water Control & Improvement Districts, 1 Fresh Water Supply Districts. Adopted 2025 rates run from 0.41 to 1.20 per $100. At the top of that range a district adds more than half again the entire Lavon stack, and none of it is reduced by a homestead exemption.
These follow subdivision boundaries, not city limits, so two houses a mile apart in Lavon can differ by a full point. They are most common in newer master-planned communities, because that is what the bonds paid to build.
A Public Improvement District is not a taxing unit. It is an assessment a city levies on the specific parcels that benefited from the roads, water and amenities its bonds paid for - set per parcel, absent from every rate table and every listing-site tax estimate, and not reduced by a homestead exemption because it is not a tax. It typically runs the life of the bonds, often 20 to 40 years, and can frequently be paid off in a lump sum. In a new-build community that is the difference between the budget you built and the payment you owe, and the option period is when you find out.
HOA dues are a private contract with the neighbourhood association. They are not on the tax bill, not collected by the county, not deductible, and not touched by any exemption - and a community can have an HOA and a MUD and a PID at once, which is the combination that catches people out. Ask for the dues, the transfer fee, the reserve study and any special assessment in writing, and read them alongside the tax bill rather than instead of it.