Como, Texas.
Typical home $262,838 (-1.2% in a year). Sulphur Springs, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$292 (+27%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $3,182 -1%
- $266,020$262,838 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.
- Como$1,380
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Como, TX fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Como, Hopkins County, Texas
Como is a town of 728 people in Hopkins County. Unemployment in Hopkins County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hopkins County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Como is a very small town in Hopkins County, in northeast Texas. Homes here are valued above what the county's incomes would suggest, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical. Winters are mild and short, with January the coldest month and frosty nights, while summers are hot, with August the warmest. Rain and melted snow come through the year in fair amounts.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Almost no one works from home. Across Hopkins County, the largest workplaces include Sulphur Springs ISD, the Saputo manufacturing plant and Christus MF - Sulphur Springs, a general hospital. Jobs across the county grew a little last year, and unemployment there is low and close to where it stood a year ago.
Things to do. The Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park and the Southwest Dairy Museum are both a short drive away. For time outdoors, Cooper State Park and Lake Bob Sandlin State Park are protected areas a longer drive away, and Lake Fork Reservoir is another longer drive for anyone who likes to be near open water.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Hopkins County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hopkins County had 14,697 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 73°. About 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sulphur Springs weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hopkins County
- Sulphur Springs ISDSchool district692FTE
- GSC EnterprisesGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers613
- SaputoManufacturing544
- Christus MF - Sulphur SpringsGeneral hospital392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters389
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing300
- D6Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing231
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,269 people in all across the county; Como has none of its own. 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Como’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 Hopkins County and the Sulphur Springs, TX metro.
Como home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Como$262,838
- 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.
- Como6
Zip codes with a Como address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Como — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.