Gordon, Texas.
Typical home $413,810 (+2.7% in a year). Mineral Wells, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,178 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,782 +3%
- $403,029$413,810 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $51,241 +14%
- $362,570$413,810 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.
- Gordon$2,172
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Gordon, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gordon, Palo Pinto County, Texas
Gordon is a city of 470 people in Palo Pinto County. Half its households earn more than $87,188 a year and half less, against $67,674 across Palo Pinto County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Palo Pinto County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Palo Pinto County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gordon is a very small city in Palo Pinto County, Texas, home to far fewer people than most towns of any size. Household incomes here run higher than across the county, though the typical home is valued well above what most small Texas towns would see, and some residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. A smaller number work from home. Across Palo Pinto County, some of the largest workplaces are Traton, which assembles heavy trucks, Mineral Wells ISD, and Palo Pinto General Hospital, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time on the water, Palo Pinto Creek Reservoir is a short drive away. Possum Kingdom Lake, a reservoir, and Possum Kingdom State Park, a protected area, are a longer drive away. Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is also a longer drive away for those who like to walk and spend a day outdoors.
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- 179households
- 31%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Palo Pinto County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Palo Pinto County had 8,545 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Palo Pinto weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Palo Pinto County
- TratonTrucks, heavy, assembling on chassis of own manufacture1,089
- Mineral Wells ISDSchool district452FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters353
- Palo Pinto General HospitalGeneral hospital294FTE
- CANTEX INC.-Specialty FacilityPvc pipe manufacturing175
- CANTEX INC.-Injection MoldingPvc pipe manufacturing171
- The Gunter HotelTourist lodges113
- American Medical Response101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,100 people in all across the county; Gordon has none of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gordon’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 Palo Pinto County and the Mineral Wells, TX metro.
Gordon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gordon$413,810
- 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.
- Gordon15
Zip codes with a Gordon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gordon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.