Big Lake, Texas.
Typical home $160,695 (-11.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$125 (+17%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $21,523 -12%
- $182,217$160,695 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.
- Big Lake$843
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Big Lake, TX fell 11.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Lake, Reagan County, Texas
Big Lake is a city of 2,965 people in Reagan County. Half its households earn more than $71,471 a year and half less; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Reagan County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Lake is a small West Texas city, and it is a young place, with residents who are younger on the whole than in most of the country. Household incomes run above what is typical for much of the country, and homes cost less than in many towns. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the weather is dry, with mild winters and hot summers that are among the warmest of the year in August.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in shops. Across Reagan County, the largest workplaces include Reagan County ISD, Reagan Memorial Hospital and PAY and Save. Most people have a short drive to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. The lake the town is named for sits in or beside town, and it is the place nearby to go for time outdoors. Beyond that, little else is listed close by.
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- 850households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Reagan County had 1,642 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Lake weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Reagan County
- Reagan County ISDSchool district160FTE
- Reagan Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital123FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 38 people in all across the county; Big Lake has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Big Lake’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Reagan County.
Big Lake home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Lake$160,695
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Big Lake8
Zip codes with a Big Lake address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Lake — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.