Brownfield, Texas.
Typical home $118,904 (-2.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$64 (+12%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,646 -2%
- $121,550$118,904 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $34,271 -22%
- $153,175$118,904 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.
- Brownfield$624
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Brownfield, TX fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Brownfield, Terry County, Texas
Brownfield is a city of 8,936 people in Terry County. Half its households earn more than $42,150 a year and half less, against $44,100 across Terry County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Terry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Brownfield is a small city and the seat of Terry County in West Texas. 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 good many residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the population is of middle age.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Brownfield are Brownfield ISD, Brownfield Regional Medical Center and United Supermarkets. Jobs across Terry County slipped slightly last year, and unemployment there is a little lower than it was a year earlier. Most people have a fairly short drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Winters are cool, with highs well above freezing in the coldest month and only a little snow. Summers are hot, and the rainfall is light. The list of nearby places is empty, so there are no particular outings to point to from here.
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- 3,531households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Terry County had 3,097 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brownfield #2 weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Brownfield
- Brownfield ISDSchool district317FTE
- Brownfield Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital140FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket106
- South Plains Implement, LTD - BrownfieldFarm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 136 people in all. 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Brownfield’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 Terry County.
Brownfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Brownfield$118,904
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Brownfield 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.
- Brownfield24.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Brownfield43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Brownfield7
Zip codes with a Brownfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Brownfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.