Dalhart, Texas.
Typical home $197,460 (+7.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$560 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,002 +7%
- $184,458$197,460 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,716 +24%
- $159,744$197,460 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.
- Dalhart$1,036
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Dalhart, TX rose 7.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dalhart, Dallam County, Texas
Dalhart is a city of 8,447 people in Dallam County. Half its households earn more than $71,630 a year and half less, against $71,500 across Dallam County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Dallam County was 3.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dalhart is a small city in the Texas Panhandle, in Dallam County, with a population that skews young for a place its size. Household incomes are close to the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Adults with a four-year degree are fewer than in much of the country, and getting to work usually takes only a short drive.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in manufacturing, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Dalhart are Dalhart ISD, Coon Memorial Hospital and United Supermarkets. Unemployment in the county is low and has barely moved over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. A short drive away, Carrizo Creek is a river good for a quiet afternoon outdoors. Farther afield, Rita Blanca National Grassland is a protected area of open prairie, and Rita Blanca Creek is another river in the same part of the Panhandle. Winters here are cold, summers are hot, and the rain and melted snow add up to less than in much of the country, so outings are most comfortable in the milder seasons.
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- 3,056households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallam County had 4,788 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 64°. About 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dalhart weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dalhart
- Dalhart ISDSchool district215FTE
- Coon Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital172FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket143
- Hydro Resources - Mid-Continent, Inc., DalhartWater well drilling45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 188 people in all. 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dalhart’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Dallam County.
Dalhart home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dalhart$197,460
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Dalhart listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Dalhart14.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dalhart70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dalhart13
Zip codes with a Dalhart address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dalhart — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.