Howardwick, Texas.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Howardwick, Donley County, Texas
Howardwick is a city of 370 people in Donley County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Donley County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Donley County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Howardwick is a very small city in the Texas Panhandle, with far fewer people than most towns of any kind. Nearly every home is lived in by its owner, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than across most of the country. Winters are cold but short on snow, summers run hot, and the rain and melted snow that fall over a year are modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining, restaurants and hotels, and shops also employing many. Across Donley County, the largest workplaces include Clarendon College, Clarendon ISD and PAY and Save. Jobs across the county have grown scarcer over the past year, and unemployment there is somewhat higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. McClellan Creek National Grassland is a protected area, a longer drive away, where open prairie is left to itself. The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum, also a longer drive away, is a museum devoted to the fencing that shaped the plains. Mulberry Creek, a river a longer drive away, rounds out the nearby places worth knowing.
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- 9%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
What people in Donley County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Donley County had 899 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 67°. About 4 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clarendon weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Donley County
- Clarendon CollegeTwo-year college158
- Clarendon ISDSchool district88FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores34
- Hedley ISDSchool district31FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 34 people in all across the county; Howardwick has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively 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 Howardwick’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Donley County.
Howardwick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Howardwick10
Zip codes with a Howardwick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Howardwick — 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.