Dumas, Texas.
Typical home $190,061 (+3.3% in a year). Dumas, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$470 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,119 +3%
- $183,942$190,061 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,879 +17%
- $162,182$190,061 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.
- Dumas$998
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Dumas, TX rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dumas, Moore County, Texas
Dumas is a city of 14,501 people in Moore County. Half its households earn more than $63,788 a year and half less, against $61,762 across Moore County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Moore County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dumas is a city in Moore County, Texas, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Incomes run a little above the county's, though a fair number of households live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are cold while the summers turn hot, with only light snow and modest rain through the year.
Work. Many people in Dumas work in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Dumas ISD, the Dumas hospital and Trans Ova Genetics. Most people have a short commute, very few work from home, and the county has seen jobs grow slightly over the past year with unemployment holding steady.
Things to do. The closest outdoor draws are all a longer drive away. Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is a protected area built around a reservoir, Lake Meredith, with room for water and open country. Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument is an archaeological site tied to the long history of toolmaking on the Panhandle plains.
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- 4,827households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Moore County had 12,962 jobs in 2025, 1.5% 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°. About 9 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dumas weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dumas
- Dumas ISDSchool district647FTE
- Dumas MEM HOSCritical access hospital322FTE
- Trans Ova GeneticsSupport activities for animal production74
- Dumas I EnterprisesNursing homes55
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 156 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dumas’ 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 Moore County and the Dumas, TX metro.
Dumas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dumas$190,061
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Dumas listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Dumas22.24%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dumas58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dumas17
Zip codes with a Dumas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dumas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.