Gorman, Texas.
Typical home $135,605 (+3.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$118 (+20%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $4,702 +4%
- $130,903$135,605 since Sep 2025
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.
- Gorman$712
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Gorman, TX rose 3.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gorman, Eastland County, Texas
Gorman is a city of 976 people in Eastland County. Unemployment in Eastland County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Eastland County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gorman is a very small city in Eastland County, where neighbors tend to know one another and the pace is unhurried. Homes here are valued well below what is typical across much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow in most years, while summers turn hot, especially by August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Very few work from home, so most people travel to a job. Across Eastland County, the largest workplaces include Cisco College, Ranger College and Walmart, though unemployment there is higher than many would like and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Water draws people in this part of Texas, and Lake Leon and Lake Eastland are both reservoirs a longer drive away. Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for those who want a day outdoors. For something indoors, the Robert E. Howard Museum is a longer drive away as well.
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- 15%of adults have a degree
- 3%work from home
What people in Eastland County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Eastland County had 5,756 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eastland weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Eastland County
- Cisco CollegeTwo-year college276
- Ranger CollegeTwo-year college234
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters191
- Eastland ISDSchool district168FTE
- Flying A Pumping ServicesHydraulic fracturing wells on a contract basis161
- Cisco ISDSchool district152FTE
- Eastland Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital149FTE
- Gorman Milling Co., Inc. / MillLivestock feeds, supplements, concentrates and premixes, manufacturing99
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 885 people in all across the county; Gorman has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Gorman’s 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 Eastland County.
Gorman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gorman$135,605
- 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.
- Gorman10
Zip codes with a Gorman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gorman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.