Chandler, Texas.
Typical home $265,071 (-1.0% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$722 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,745 -1%
- $267,816$265,071 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,115 +14%
- $231,956$265,071 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.
- Chandler$1,391
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Chandler, TX fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chandler, Henderson County, Texas
Chandler is a city of 3,275 people in Henderson County. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chandler is a small city in Henderson County, in the pine and lake country of East Texas. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line, with fewer holding a four-year degree than in many places. Winters are mild and brief, and summers are hot, with rain spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, shops, and professional and business services. Many people drive some distance to their jobs, and a small number work from home. Across Henderson County, the largest workplaces include Trinity Valley Community College, Athens ISD and UT Health Athens.
Things to do. Lake Palestine and Bellwood Lake are reservoirs a short drive away, and Caldwell Zoo is a short drive away as well. For a longer outing, Tyler State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Tyler Museum of Art is a longer drive away too.
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- 1,611households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 20,065 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tyler Pounds Field weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Argon Medical DevicesHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing552
- Trinity Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college537
- Athens ISDSchool district437FTE
- UT Heath AthensGeneral hospital411FTE
- Brownsboro ISDSchool district402FTE
- BiomericsCatheters manufacturing347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,132 people in all across the county; Chandler has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Chandler’s 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 Henderson County and the Athens, TX metro.
Chandler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chandler$265,071
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Chandler 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.
- Chandler23.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Chandler81
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Chandler13
Zip codes with a Chandler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chandler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.