Claude, Texas.
Typical home $234,325 (+9.0% in a year). Amarillo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$637 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,310 +9%
- $215,014$234,325 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,514 +13%
- $206,811$234,325 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.
- Claude$1,230
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Claude, TX rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Claude, Armstrong County, Texas
Claude is a city of 1,186 people in Armstrong County. Half its households earn more than $77,813 a year and half less, against $72,750 across Armstrong County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Armstrong County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 41.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Claude is a small city in Armstrong County, Texas, and most people here own the homes they live in. Household incomes run above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with snow most years, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in the building trades. Across Armstrong County, Claude ISD is among the largest workplaces, along with Clifty Grouo, a construction firm that lays sewer mains and pipe. The commute is a fairly typical one for a small town, and only a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. Palo Duro State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive away and is one of the best-known outdoor places nearby. Also a longer drive away are Wonderland Park, an amusement park, and the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, a museum. Most of what lies nearby is a trip rather than an errand.
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- 493households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Armstrong County had 733 jobs in 2025, 41.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Panhandle weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Armstrong County
- Claude ISDSchool district50FTE
- Clifty GrouoSewer main, pipe and connection, construction37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 37 people in all across the county; Claude 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Claude’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 Armstrong County and the Amarillo, TX metro.
Claude home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Claude$234,325
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Claude10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Claude address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Claude — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.