Detroit, Texas.
Typical home $230,016 (+8.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$636 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,576 +8%
- $212,441$230,016 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,027 +12%
- $204,990$230,016 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.
- Detroit$1,207
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Detroit, TX rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Detroit, Red River County, Texas
Detroit is a town of 704 people in Red River County. Unemployment in Red River County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Red River 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Detroit is a very small Texas town in Red River County, with a population that keeps everyone close to one another. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is typical, and very few people work from home. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades and shops close behind. Across Red River County, some of the largest workplaces are the school districts, including Detroit ISD, along with Cal-Maine Foods Red River, which produces chicken eggs. The county has added jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is somewhat higher than a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Raymond Gary State Park is a protected area a longer drive away. Water is the main draw nearby: Pat Mayse Lake and Hugo Lake are both within a longer drive, and the Kiamichi River is another option for a day out. The Lamar County Historical Museum is also a longer drive away for an indoor outing.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 4%work from home
What people in Red River County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Red River County had 2,719 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 71°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarksville 2NE weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Red River County
- Detroit ISDSchool district145FTE
- Cal- Maine Foods Red RiverChicken egg production131
- Rivercrest ISDSchool district123FTE
- Clarksville ISDSchool district112FTE
- Hawk Installation and ConstructionMechanical equipment insulation107
- Martin Sprocket & Gear 13Sprockets, power transmission equipment, manufacturing80
- Focused Care at ClarksvilleContinuing care retirement communities75
- Avery ISDSchool district67FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 530 people in all across the county; Detroit 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively 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 Detroit’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 Red River County.
Detroit home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Detroit$230,016
- 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.
- Detroit10
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Detroit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Detroit — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.