Atlanta, Texas.
Typical home $164,293 (-1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$349 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,484 -1%
- $166,777$164,293 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,483 -9%
- $179,776$164,293 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Atlanta$862
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Atlanta, TX fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Atlanta, Cass County, Texas
Atlanta is a city of 5,433 people in Cass County. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Cass County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Atlanta is a small city in Cass County, in the piney northeast corner of Texas. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes in the county run on the lower side, and more people here live below the poverty line than is true for the country as a whole. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Atlanta are Atlanta ISD, the Winnie-Stowell Hospital District and The Newark Group, which makes fiber tubes from purchased paperboard. Some people work from home, and jobs across Cass County have grown slightly over the past year, though unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Atlanta State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away and is the easiest place to get outdoors. Farther afield, Caddo Lake, a reservoir, and Caddo Lake State Park are both a longer drive away, as is the Four States Auto Museum for those who like a museum stop. Winters here are mild and almost snow-free, and summers run hot, so cooler months suit time outside best, while rain is plentiful through the year.
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- 2,252households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cass County had 7,925 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Atlanta weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Atlanta
- Atlanta ISDSchool district355FTE
- Winnie-Stowell Hospital DistrictNursing homes139
- The Newark GroupFiber tubes made from purchased paperboard70
- Double H Burger CompanyRestaurants, fast food44
- AtlantaMail and parcel delivery20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 273 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Atlanta’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Cass County.
Atlanta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Atlanta$164,293
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Atlanta listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Atlanta20.72%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Atlanta72
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Atlanta14
Zip codes with a Atlanta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Atlanta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.