Ferris, Texas.
Typical home $289,047 (-0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,088 . Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$708 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,760 -1%
- $290,806$289,047 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,697 +5%
- $275,349$289,047 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.
- Ferris$1,517
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 71 years.
Typical home values in Ferris, TX fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ferris, Ellis County, Texas
Ferris is a city of 2,788 people in Ellis County. Unemployment in Ellis County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 3.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ferris is a small city in Ellis County, and its people are young compared with most of the country. Homes here cost more to rent than to carry on a modest budget would suggest, and typical rents are high for a town this size. Winters are mild and brief, with the coldest weather in January still staying above freezing in the daytime, while summers turn hot, especially in August. Rain and melted snow come in fair amounts through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in banks, insurance and property. In Ferris itself, the largest workplaces include Ferris ISD, Brookshire Brothers and Nations Best TX LLC AWS. Commutes are long, and a good number of people work from home. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country as a whole, and the job market across Ellis County has been growing.
Things to do. For a day out, Dallas is a longer drive away and has the most to offer. The Dallas Museum of Art is among the best known museums there, and the Dallas Zoo is another longer drive for a family outing. Sports fans can head to AT&T Stadium, also a longer drive away.
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- 974households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ellis County had 64,686 jobs in 2025, 3.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ferris weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ferris
- Ferris ISDSchool district511FTE
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores23
- Nations Best TX LLC AWS444110 home centers22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 45 people in all. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ferris’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Ellis County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Ferris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ferris$289,047
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Ferris 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.
- Ferris28.84%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ferris45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ferris9
Zip codes with a Ferris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ferris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.