Hawkins, Texas.
Typical home $252,146 (-3.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$701 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,299 -3%
- $260,445$252,146 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,395 +8%
- $232,751$252,146 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.
- Hawkins$1,323
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Hawkins, TX fell 3.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hawkins, Wood County, Texas
Hawkins is a city of 1,274 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $72,404 a year and half less, against $60,300 across Wood County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Wood County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wood 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hawkins is a small city in Wood County, in the piney woods of East Texas. The people who live here are a little older than the typical American, and household incomes run above the county's. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, with snow a rare event, and summers are hot, with July the warmest month. Rain falls through the year, enough to keep the area green.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Wood County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Mineola ISD and the Primo Brands bottling factory in Hawkins. Getting to work usually takes a moderate drive, and almost nobody works from home.
Things to do. Little Sandy National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area in or beside town, good for quiet time outdoors. A short drive away, Tyler State Park offers woods and water, and Big Sandy Creek is a river for a day by the water. For a longer outing, Caldwell Zoo is a longer drive away.
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- 657households
- 13%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What people in Wood County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 10,735 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Gilmer Wnw weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wood County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters319
- Mineola ISDSchool district300FTE
- Jarvis Christian UniversityUniversity or college270
- Winnsboro ISDSchool district257FTE
- Primo Brands - Hawkins FactorySpring waters, purifying and bottling218
- Quitman ISDSchool district207FTE
- Dairy Farmers of AmericaCreamery butter manufacturing194
- Hawkins ISDSchool district140FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 28 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,250 people in all across the county; Hawkins has one 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hawkins’ 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 Wood County.
Hawkins home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hawkins$252,146
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hawkins listings — the market is heating up.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Hawkins21.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hawkins129
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hawkins22
Zip codes with a Hawkins address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hawkins — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.