Joaquin, Texas.
Typical home $212,800 (-7.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$341 (+44%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,539 -8%
- $230,339$212,800 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $45,077 -17%
- $257,877$212,800 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.
- Joaquin$1,117
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Joaquin, TX fell 7.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Joaquin, Shelby County, Texas
Joaquin is a city of 734 people in Shelby County. Unemployment in Shelby County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shelby County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Joaquin is a very small city in Shelby County, in the piney woods country of East Texas. Homes here are valued below what many Texas buyers would expect to pay, and household incomes across the county are modest. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, while summers turn hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents of Joaquin work most often in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming and forestry also employing many people. Across Shelby County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Farms, Center ISD and Walmart. Very few people work from home, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Jericho Creek, a river, is a short drive away and suits time outdoors by the water. Farther out, Mansfield State Historic Site is a museum a longer drive away, and Chimp Haven, a zoo-like sanctuary, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 12%of adults have a degree
- 1%work from home
What people in Shelby County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 8,789 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Center weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby County
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,486
- Center ISDSchool district411FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Smith Sawmill Service BIDD US.IncPlumbers' handtools, nonpowered, manufacturing150
- Shelbyville ISDSchool district126FTE
- Timpson ISDSchool district125FTE
- Joaquin ISDSchool district117FTE
- Focused Care at CenterContinuing care retirement communities88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,431 people in all across the county; Joaquin has one of its own. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Joaquin’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 Shelby County.
Joaquin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Joaquin$212,800
- Texas$296,424
- 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.
- Joaquin6
Zip codes with a Joaquin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Joaquin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.