Happy, Texas.
Typical home $170,058 (+8.0% in a year). Amarillo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$439 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,536 +8%
- $157,522$170,058 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $18,707 +12%
- $151,350$170,058 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.
- Happy$893
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Happy, TX rose 8.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Happy, Randall County, Texas
Happy is a town of 602 people in Randall County. Unemployment in Randall County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Randall 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Happy is a very small town on the Texas Panhandle, with a population among the smallest of any place in its county. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, with moderate rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, with professional and business services close behind. Across Randall County, some of the largest workplaces are Canyon ISD and West Texas A & M University. The typical commute is a fairly long one, so many people spend a good part of the day traveling to work.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Palo Duro State Park and Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge are both protected areas, each a longer drive away. The Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum is also a longer drive away and suits a quieter afternoon indoors.
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- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Randall County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Randall County had 37,224 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 65°. About 11 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tulia weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Randall County
- Canyon ISDSchool district1,456FTE
- West Texas A & M UniversityUniversity or college916
- Merchants Building MaintenanceBuilding cleaning services, interior679
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters392
- Venable's ConstructionCompressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction371
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters363
- United SupermarketsSupermarket350
- BSA Physician Group325
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 81 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,860 people in all across the county; Happy has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Happy’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 Randall County and the Amarillo, TX metro.
Happy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Happy$170,058
- 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 Happy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Happy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.