Channing, Texas.
Typical home $174,351 (+6.5% in a year). Dumas, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$47 (+5%) since Jan 2024.
- 1 year
- Up $10,567 +6%
- $163,784$174,351 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.
- Channing$915
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Channing, TX rose 6.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Channing, Hartley County, Texas
Channing is a city of 281 people in Hartley County. Unemployment in Hartley County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 7.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hartley County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Channing is a small city on the Texas Panhandle plains, in Hartley County, and it is home to very few people, so it is the kind of town where neighbors tend to know one another. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Homes here cost less than what a typical home costs across much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in farming, forestry and mining, in manufacturing, or in banks, insurance and property. Across Hartley County, some of the largest workplaces are Natural Prairie Dairy Farms, CSS Farms, LLC Dalhart, and Coon Memorial Hospital, which is a critical access hospital. The county has gained jobs over the past year, and unemployment there has stayed close to where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Rita Blanca Creek is a river a short drive away, and it is the nearest place to get out along the water. A longer drive brings you to Landergin Mesa, an archaeological site, and to Punta de Agua Creek, another river. These are open-country outings, suited to a day trip across the plains.
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- 8%below the poverty line
What people in Hartley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hartley County had 2,868 jobs in 2025, 7.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 65°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Channing weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hartley County
- Natural Prairie Dairy FarmsAgriculture193
- CSS Farms, LLC DalhartPotato farming, field and seed potato production191
- Coon Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital172FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket143
- Northside FarmsAgriculture78
- Five Rivers Cattle FeedingBeef cattle feedlots49
- Five Rivers Cattle FeedingBeef cattle feedlots45
- Hydro Resources - Mid-Continent, Inc., DalhartWater well drilling45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 780 people in all across the county; Channing has one of its own. Hospitals come 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
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailVery high
- LightningVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Channing’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Hartley County and the Dumas, TX metro.
Channing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Channing$174,351
- 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 Channing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Channing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.