Booker, Texas.
Typical home $158,709 (+7.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$84 (+11%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $11,033 +7%
- $147,676$158,709 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.
- Booker$833
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Booker, TX rose 7.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Booker, Lipscomb County, Texas
Booker is a town of 1,437 people in Lipscomb County. Half its households earn more than $69,464 a year and half less, against $72,560 across Lipscomb County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Lipscomb County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Booker is a small town in Lipscomb County, in the Texas Panhandle. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with the warmest weather in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in manufacturing. Across Lipscomb County, some of the largest workplaces are Preferred Beef Group, Booker ISD and WHB Cattle. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home. Unemployment across the county is low and unchanged from a year earlier, though the county had fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Beaver Dunes State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Lake Evans Chambers is a lake, also a longer drive. Beaver River Wildlife Management Area, a park, is another option that takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 453households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 15 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lipscomb County had 1,182 jobs in 2025, 4.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 51° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 68°. About 14 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Perryton weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lipscomb County
- Preferred Beef GroupMeats fresh, chilled or frozen, produced in slaughtering plants300
- Booker ISDSchool district72FTE
- WHB CattleDairy farming43
- Follett ISDSchool district36FTE
- Darrouzett ISDSchool district31FTE
- WHB CattleDairy farming26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 369 people in all across the county; Booker has none of its own. 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
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Booker’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 Lipscomb County.
Booker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Booker$158,709
- 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 Booker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Booker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.