Forestburg, Texas.
Typical home $442,969 (-1.4% in a year). Gainesville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,287 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,236 -1%
- $449,205$442,969 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,120 +22%
- $363,848$442,969 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.
- Forestburg$2,325
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Forestburg, TX fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forestburg, Montague County, Texas
The Census does not count Forestburg on its own, so the figures here are Montague County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,545 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Montague County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montague County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Forestburg is a small town in Montague County, in north Texas. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes and poverty rates are part of the everyday picture for many families. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with a good deal of rain spread through the year.
Work. Across Montague County, most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, or the building trades. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, though the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree here than across the country, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Rucker Pond, a lake, is a short drive away and is the closest outing listed. Further off, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland is a protected area, and Lake Bridgeport is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 8,538households
- 44.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Montague County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montague County had 4,821 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alvord North weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montague County
- Bowie ISDSchool district238FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters210
- Nocona ISDSchool district148FTE
- WL Plastics - BowieFittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing93
- Nocona General HospitalGeneral hospital89FTE
- Hall ResourcesWater well drilling, digging, boring or sinking65
- Coppell Construction CompanyBridge construction60
- Saint JO ISDSchool district56FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 541 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montague County, 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 Montague County and the Gainesville, TX metro.
Forestburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forestburg$442,969
- 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.
- Forestburg7
Zip codes with a Forestburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forestburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.