Market Overview for Paige
There are 28 active listings in Paige with a median list price of $875K and a median sold price of $438K.
Homes average 80 days on market.
Over the past 30 days, 2 homes have sold, with 22 sales in the past 12 months.
The average price per square foot is $536.
About Paige
Paige is an unincorporated community of 278 residents (2020 census — its first appearance as a Census Designated Place) in northeastern Bastrop County, at the junction of U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 21, approximately 45 miles east of Austin. The community covers 2.16 square miles at an elevation of 554 feet along the U.S. 290 corridor that connects Austin to Houston through the post-oak savannas and sandy-soil prairies east of the Lost Pines.
Paige was founded in 1872 near a water tower built for the Houston and Texas Central Railway and was named for Norman Paige, a civil engineer who laid out the railway route. A post office was established in 1874. In 1876, the railway station relocated three miles east and the community followed. German immigrant Fedor Soder arrived in 1877, sold lots to German settlers, and built the community's first store and cotton gin, establishing an ethnic character described by the TSHA Handbook as "still primarily German." By 1886, Paige had grown to roughly 500 residents with seven cotton gins, a pickle factory, a creamery, and a broom factory. The population declined after World War II as cotton production waned, stabilizing around 275 residents through the end of the 20th century.
The real estate market around Paige consists primarily of rural acreage, ranch land, and homesteads along U.S. 290 and the surrounding farm roads. The community sits at the junction of State Highway 21 — the historic Old San Antonio Road, one of Texas's oldest and most significant routes — which connects northeast toward Bryan/College Station and south toward Bastrop and San Marcos. Natural gas drilling began in the area in 1981, adding a secondary economic activity to the area's agricultural base.
Living in Paige
Paige is a rural crossroads community without incorporated municipal services. Bastrop County provides governance, and the community has a volunteer fire department established in 1982. Groceries, retail, and most services are in Bastrop, approximately 15 miles west on U.S. 290, or in Elgin, about 20 miles west.
Students attend schools in Bastrop Independent School District, which serves approximately 13,453 students across 17 campuses and has grown 30.9 percent since 2016. Emile Elementary School is the feeder campus for the Paige area, enrolling approximately 581 students. Students continue to Bastrop Intermediate, Bastrop Middle School, and Bastrop High School.
The drive to Austin is approximately 45 miles west on U.S. 290, typically 50 to 65 minutes. Bastrop State Park, about 14 miles west in the Lost Pines forest, offers over 2,000 acres of loblolly pine forest with 16 miles of hiking and cycling trails, historic CCC-built cabins, seasonal swimming, and camping. The park is a National Historic Landmark designated in 1997 and is home to one of the largest mating groups of the endangered Houston toad on public land. Lake Bastrop, a 906-acre reservoir three miles northeast of Bastrop, provides fishing, boating, and swimming.
