Hamlin, Texas.
Typical home $104,420 (+5.2% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$209 (+61%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,138 +5%
- $99,281$104,420 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,403 +9%
- $96,016$104,420 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.
- Hamlin$548
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Hamlin, TX rose 5.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hamlin, Jones County, Texas
Hamlin is a city of 1,831 people in Jones County. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Jones County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hamlin is a small city in Jones County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values sit well below what many buyers elsewhere would expect. The population is small and its median age is close to that of the country as a whole. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month; the year is fairly dry.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades, shops and government. Across Jones County, some of the largest workplaces are Coca-cola Southwest Beverages, a soft drink manufacturer, McCarthy Building Companies, a commercial construction contractor, and Hawley ISD, a school district. Unemployment in the county is low and has held steady over the past year, and the county has added jobs.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Sweetwater Creek and Noodle Creek are both rivers a longer drive away. The Panhandle Plains Wildlife Trail, a protected area, is also a longer drive from town. Each makes a day trip for anyone who likes to be near water or wildlife.
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- 841households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jones County had 3,269 jobs in 2025, 7.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 4 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anson weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jones County
- Coca-cola Southwest BeveragesSoft drink manufacturing274
- McCarthy Building CompaniesCommercial building construction general contractors241
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated215
- Hawley ISDSchool district160FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters154
- Stamford ISDSchool district138FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter137
- Anson ISDSchool district132FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,207 people in all across the county; Hamlin has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hamlin’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 Jones County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Hamlin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hamlin$104,420
- 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.
- Hamlin9
Zip codes with a Hamlin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hamlin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.