Hooks, Texas.
Typical home $165,523 (+4.7% in a year). Texarkana, TX-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$338 (+64%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,473 +5%
- $158,050$165,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,211 -6%
- $175,734$165,523 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.
- Hooks$869
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Hooks, TX rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hooks, Bowie County, Texas
Hooks is a city of 2,518 people in Bowie County. Unemployment in Bowie County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hooks is a small city in Bowie County, in the northeast corner of Texas. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and the county's household incomes sit a little below the typical American figure. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people have a short trip to work.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Bowie County, the largest workplaces include Christus ST Michael, Texarkana ISD and Wadley Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county has risen slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. Wagner Creek, a river a short drive away, is the closest spot for time by the water. Farther afield, Atlanta State Park is a protected area, and Four States Auto Museum is a museum, both a longer drive away. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a good deal of rain.
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- 947households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bowie County had 42,360 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Texarkana weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bowie County
- Christus St MichaelGeneral hospital1,651FTE
- Texarkana ISDSchool district1,204FTE
- NH Enterprises d.b.a CSI PharmacyHome nursing services715
- Ledwell & SON EnterprisesMotor vehicle merchant wholesalers606
- Amentum ServicesAutomotive repair and replacement shops, general572
- Wadley Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital497FTE
- TCI - TexarkanaPrimary aluminum production and manufacturing aluminum alloys489
- Collom and Carney main clinicPhysicians' offices430
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,458 people in all across the county; Hooks has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hooks’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Bowie County and the Texarkana, TX-AR metro.
Hooks home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hooks$165,523
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Hooks 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.
- Hooks20.45%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hooks39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hooks7
Zip codes with a Hooks address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hooks — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.