Call, Texas.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Call, Newton County, Texas
The Census does not count Call on its own, so the figures here are Newton County's. Half the county's households earn more than $42,618 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 83% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Newton County was 6.8% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Newton County work in schools and health care, then construction.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Call is a small community in Newton County, in the piney woods of East Texas. Across the county, the typical resident is older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the state's, and summers are hot while winters are mild, with little or no snow and plenty of rain.
Work. Across Newton County, most people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing, or in shops. Unemployment is about where it was a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Big Cow Creek is a river a short drive away, suited to a quiet afternoon on the water. E.O. Siecke State Forest, also a short drive away, is a protected area of woods for walking and seeing the trees. Village Creek State Park, a longer drive away, is another protected area for those willing to travel a bit farther.
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- 4,841households
- 46.1median age
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Newton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Newton County had 1,211 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 61° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 72°. About 64 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Orange North weather station, 23 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newton County
- Newton ISDSchool district200FTE
- Deweyville ISDSchool district108FTE
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores53
- Burkeville ISDSchool district43FTE
- NRGElectric power generation, fossil fuel30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 83 people in all. 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Newton County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Newton County.
Call home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Call9
Zip codes with a Call address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Call — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.