Beckville, Texas.
Typical home $149,758 (+10.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$264 (+51%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $13,872 +10%
- $135,886$149,758 since Sep 2025
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.
- Beckville$786
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Beckville, TX rose 10.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Beckville, Panola County, Texas
Beckville is a city of 722 people in Panola County. Unemployment in Panola County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Panola County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Beckville is a very small East Texas city, home to fewer people than most towns of any size. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is worth a modest sum by national standards. Winters are mild and short, with snow rare, and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Panola County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Poultry, Carthage ISD and Panola College. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year earlier.
Things to do. Martin Creek Lake State Park is the nearest outing, a park a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Harrison County Historical Museum, a museum, and to the Michelson Museum of Art, another museum. The Starr Family Home State Historic Site, a protected area, is also a longer drive away.
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- 5%of adults have a degree
What people in Panola County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Panola County had 7,710 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Panola County
- Absolute Pipeline IntegrityPipeline, gas and oil, construction863
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing551
- Carthage ISDSchool district354FTE
- Panola CollegeTwo-year college301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters200
- Louisiana-Pacific CarthageOriented strandboard manufacturing145
- Tgnr Holdco LLC - Carthage OfficeNatural gas production136
- Genpak CarthageThermal insulation, polystyrene foam, manufacturing125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,503 people in all across the county; Beckville has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Beckville’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 Panola County.
Beckville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Beckville$149,758
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Beckville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Beckville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.