Kermit, Texas.
Typical home $142,619 (+13.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$313 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,212 +14%
- $125,407$142,619 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,817 -7%
- $153,437$142,619 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.
- Kermit$749
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Kermit, TX rose 13.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kermit, Winkler County, Texas
Kermit is a city of 6,267 people in Winkler County. 84% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 16% are rented. Unemployment in Winkler County was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kermit is a small city in the oil-producing country of West Texas, and nearly everyone here owns the home they live in. The population is young for a place its size, and homes cost less than in much of the country. Winters are mild by northern standards, summers are hot, and rain and snow are scarce through the year.
Work. Many residents work in transport, warehouses and utilities, in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in the building trades. Across Winkler County, some of the largest workplaces are Kermit ISD, Memorial Hospital and Devon Energy - Wink. The commute is a fairly long one, and no one works from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Monahans Sandhills State Park is a protected area of sand dunes, a longer drive away. Beyond that, Kermit is a quiet town where most days are spent close to home.
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- 2,138households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Winkler County had 4,223 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 29°; warmest in June, with highs near 95° and lows near 67°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kermit weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Winkler County
- Kermit ISDSchool district194FTE
- Wink-loving ISDSchool district88FTE
- Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital75FTE
- Devon Energy - WinkPetroleum, crude, production39
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 39 people in all across the county; Kermit has two of its own. 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
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kermit’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 Winkler County.
Kermit home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kermit$142,619
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Kermit listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Kermit13.54%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kermit18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kermit5
Zip codes with a Kermit address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kermit — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.