Jasper, Texas.
Typical home $163,344 (-3.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$250 (+41%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,460 -4%
- $169,804$163,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $37,500 -19%
- $200,844$163,344 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.
- Jasper$857
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Jasper, TX fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jasper, Jasper County, Texas
Jasper is a city of 6,884 people in Jasper County. Half its households earn more than $45,078 a year and half less, against $56,723 across Jasper County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Jasper County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jasper is a small city in East Texas, and its residents tend to be a little younger than the typical American. Household incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than is usual. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in town are Jasper ISD, Walmart and Jasper Memorial Hospital. Jobs across Jasper County have slipped slightly over the past year, and the commute is fairly short, with almost no one working from home.
Things to do. Water and woods are the main draw nearby, all a longer drive away. Sam Rayburn Reservoir and Steinhagen Lake are reservoirs for boating and fishing, and the Angelina River is the best known of the area's rivers. Martin Dies, Jr. State Park is a protected area for camping and time outdoors. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year is a wet one.
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- 3,301households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jasper County had 9,028 jobs in 2025, 0.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 60 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sam Rayburn Dam weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jasper
- Jasper ISDSchool district380FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters313
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter115
- Jasper Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital112FTE
- Rayburn HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities92
- Bluebird Medical EnterprisesAmbulance services, air or ground57
- Brookshire BrothersGrocery stores57
- RightCare Health ServicesSkilled nursing facilities54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 746 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 Jasper’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Jasper County.
Jasper home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jasper$163,344
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Jasper 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.
- Jasper19.64%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jasper138
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jasper17
Zip codes with a Jasper address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jasper — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.