Groom, Texas.
Typical home $137,564 (+3.9% in a year). Amarillo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$185 (+34%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $5,109 +4%
- $132,455$137,564 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.
- Groom$722
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Groom, TX rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Groom, Carson County, Texas
Groom is a town of 552 people in Carson County. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. Unemployment in Carson County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Carson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Groom is a small town in the Texas Panhandle, and most of the homes in it are lived in by their owners. Few residents live below the poverty line, and typical home values are modest. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with moisture arriving through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and farming, forestry and mining close behind. Across Carson County, the largest workplaces include Panhandle ISD, White Deer ISD and Groom ISD, all school districts. Unemployment in the county is low and has been steady, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. A longer drive away, McClellan Creek National Grassland is a protected area of open prairie. The Carson County Square House Museum and the Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum are also a longer drive away, and both are museums. The last of these is a good fit for anyone curious about how fencing shaped the Great Plains.
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- 231households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Carson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carson County had 7,046 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Panhandle weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carson County
- Panhandle ISDSchool district104FTE
- White Deer ISDSchool district64FTE
- Groom ISDSchool district32FTE
- Hensel Phelps Construction CoAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building27
- Carson County GinCotton ginning23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 50 people in all across the county; Groom has none of its own. 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Groom’s 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 Carson County and the Amarillo, TX metro.
Groom home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Groom$137,564
- 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.
Zip codes with a Groom address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Groom — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.