Hemphill, Texas.
Typical home $217,719 (+2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$544 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,916 +3%
- $211,803$217,719 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,898 +4%
- $209,821$217,719 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.
- Hemphill$1,143
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 94 years.
Typical home values in Hemphill, TX rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas
Hemphill is a city of 1,029 people in Sabine County. Half its households earn more than $67,260 a year and half less, against $66,585 across Sabine County. Unemployment in Sabine County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sabine County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hemphill is a small city in the piney woods of East Texas and the seat of Sabine County. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and homes are priced in the middle of what many small Texas towns see. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month, and summers turn hot by August. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in government, with some in farming, forestry and mining. Hemphill ISD, Outreach Health Services and Brookshire Brothers are among the largest workplaces in town. Unemployment across Sabine County is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Sabine National Forest lies in or beside town, which makes woods and trails an easy outing. A longer drive brings you to Toledo Bend Reservoir and Sam Rayburn Reservoir, both large lakes. Mission Dolores State Historic Site, also a longer drive away, is a protected historic place.
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What people in Sabine County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sabine County had 2,442 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 73°. About 57 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Toledo Bend Lake weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hemphill
- Hemphill ISDSchool district152FTE
- Outreach Health ServicesHome care of elderly, medical91
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 159 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- LightningVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hemphill’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 Sabine County.
Hemphill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hemphill$217,719
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hemphill listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Hemphill18.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hemphill89
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hemphill13
Zip codes with a Hemphill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hemphill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.