Lone Star, Texas.
Typical home $107,286 (-14.2% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$127 (+29%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $17,733 -14%
- $125,019$107,286 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $33,139 -24%
- $140,424$107,286 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.
- Lone Star$563
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Lone Star, TX fell 14.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lone Star, Morris County, Texas
Lone Star is a city of 1,400 people in Morris County. Unemployment in Morris County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Morris 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lone Star is a small city in Morris County in northeast Texas, with a population that keeps it close to a village in feel. Homes here are modestly priced, and household incomes across Morris County sit below those in much of the country. Winters are mild and summers are hot, and snow is rare.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and government also employing many. Across Morris County, the largest workplaces include Daingerfield-Lone Star ISD, Atlas Roofing and Brookshire's. Few people work from home, so most travel to a job, and a typical commute is a moderate one. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Daingerfield State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the outdoor places in the area. A longer drive brings you to Lake O' the Pines, a large reservoir, and to the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum, a museum about the region's past. Rain falls throughout the year, so the lakes and creeks of the area stay well supplied.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 23 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What people in Morris County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 3,278 jobs in 2025, 3.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 47 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Daingerfield South weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Morris County
- Daingerfield-lone Star ISDSchool district235FTE
- Pewitt CisdSchool district148FTE
- Atlas RoofingAsphalt shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials107
- Scot Industries - Lone StarTubing, metal, merchant wholesalers92
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers87
- Capstone-Daingerfield OpCoSkilled nursing facilities64
- Cox LogisticsTrucking, general freight, long-distance, truckload63
- Friedman IndustriesPipe made from purchased iron or steel62
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 495 people in all across the county; Lone Star has none 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lone Star’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Morris County.
Lone Star home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lone Star$107,286
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lone Star 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.
- Lone Star28.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lone Star22
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lone Star5
Zip codes with a Lone Star address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lone Star — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.