Big Wells, Texas.
Typical home $100,317 (+30.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$186 (+54%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $23,573 +31%
- $76,744$100,317 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 Wells$527
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Big Wells, TX rose 30.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Wells, Dimmit County, Texas
Big Wells is a city of 483 people in Dimmit County. Unemployment in Dimmit County was 7.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dimmit County work in farming, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 Wells is a very small city in Dimmit County, in the brush country of South Texas, where everyone is likely to know one another by sight. Homes here are inexpensive, and household incomes across the county sit well below those of most of the state. Few adults have a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mainly in farming, forestry and mining, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in shops. Across Dimmit County, the largest workplaces include 3S Services, which does oil and gas field work on contract, the Carrizo Springs school district, and Dimmit Regional Hospital District. Unemployment across the county is higher than in much of the country, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are short and mild, with little or no snow, and summers are very hot, so the cooler months suit time outdoors. For water and open country, the nearest choices are Turkey Creek and the Leona River, both rivers, and Averhoff Reservoir, all a longer drive away. Rain is light through the year, so it is worth checking water levels before heading out.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
What people in Dimmit County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dimmit County had 5,669 jobs in 2025, 2.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 67° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 99° and lows near 76°. About 19 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crystal City weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dimmit County
- 3S ServicesOil and gas field services on a contract basis1,150
- Carrizo Springs CisdSchool district316FTE
- Dimmit Regional Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital163FTE
- H-E-BRetail129
- Deployed ServicesFacilities support services126
- WalmartDiscount department stores94
- Whispering Springs RehabilitationHomes for the elderly with nursing care63
- Kingsley Constructors, Inc. (9001)Pipeline, gas and oil, construction26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,613 people in all across the county; Big Wells has none 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Big Wells’ 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 Dimmit County.
Big Wells home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Wells$100,317
- 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 Big Wells address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Wells — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.