Jacksboro, Texas.
Typical home $195,840 (-1.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$435 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,052 -2%
- $198,892$195,840 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $4,021 +2%
- $191,819$195,840 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.
- Jacksboro$1,028
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Jacksboro, TX fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas
Jacksboro is a city of 4,184 people in Jack County. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Jack County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jacksboro is a small city and the center of Jack County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and typical home values are modest. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Winters are cold but not severe, summers get very hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in farming, forestry and mining, in restaurants and hotels, or in banks, insurance and property. Across Jack County, some of the largest workplaces are Faith Community Hospital, Jacksboro ISD and Black & Veatch. Unemployment across the county has eased a little over the past year, though the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier, and the typical commute is fairly long.
Things to do. Fort Richardson, a historic fort, and Lake Jacksboro, a reservoir, are both in or beside town. A longer drive brings you to Lake Bridgeport, another reservoir, and to Lake Mineral Wells State Park & Trailway, a protected area with trails and water.
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- 1,377households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jack County had 2,194 jobs in 2025, 4.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jacksboro weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jack County
- Faith Community HospitalGeneral hospital199FTE
- Jacksboro ISDSchool district163FTE
- Black & VeatchSolar power structure construction139
- Perrin-whitt CisdSchool district51FTE
- Bryson ISDSchool district40FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 164 people in all across the county; Jacksboro has two 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jacksboro’s 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 Jack County.
Jacksboro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jacksboro$195,840
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Jacksboro 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.
- Jacksboro16.04%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jacksboro50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jacksboro10
Zip codes with a Jacksboro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jacksboro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.