Hooker, Oklahoma.
Typical home $166,346 (+14.6% in a year). Guymon, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$525 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $21,226 +15%
- $145,120$166,346 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,652 +28%
- $129,694$166,346 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.
- Hooker$873
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hooker, OK rose 14.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hooker, Texas County, Oklahoma
Hooker is a city of 1,802 people in Texas County. Unemployment in Texas County was 2.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Texas County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hooker is a small city in the Oklahoma Panhandle, in Texas County, with a younger population than many small towns on the plains. Typical homes here are valued well below what is common across the country. Winters are cold, with a fair amount of snow, and summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, forestry and mining, and in shops. Among the biggest workplaces across Texas County are Seaboard Foods, which runs a pork slaughtering and processing plant, Guymon Schools, and Walmart. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Wild Horse Lake and Optima Lake are both lakes, each a longer drive away, and Optima National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area of the same distance. Aviation fans can visit the Mid-America Air Museum, also a longer drive from town.
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- 690households
What people in Texas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Texas County had 9,932 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 66°. About 17 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hooker weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Texas County
- Seaboard FoodsPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants2,855
- Qvest SanitationBuilding cleaning services, janitorial700
- Guymon SchoolsSchool district365FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters259
- Prestage Farms of OklahomaFarrow-to-finish operations223
- Oklahoma Panhandle State UniversityUniversity or college166
- Seaboard FoodsHog and pig farming163
- Seaboard FoodsHog and pig farming153
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,803 people in all across the county; Hooker 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
- DroughtVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hooker’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 Texas County and the Guymon, OK metro.
Hooker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hooker$166,346
- Oklahoma$220,801
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hooker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hooker — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.