Long Branch, Texas.
Typical home $235,228 (+4.8% in a year). Longview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$319 (+35%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $10,745 +5%
- $224,483$235,228 since Sep 2025
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.
- Long Branch$1,235
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Long Branch, TX rose 4.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Long Branch, Panola County, Texas
The Census does not count Long Branch on its own, so the figures here are Panola County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,894 a year and half less; 11% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Panola County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Panola County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Long Branch is a town in Panola County in East Texas. Winters are cold, summers are hot, snow is rare, and rain falls often through the year. Across Panola County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population is on the older side, with fewer adults holding a four-year degree than across the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added more jobs recently than it had before. Most people drive to their jobs rather than working from home.
Things to do. Martin Creek Lake State Park, a park a longer drive away, offers a place to spend time outdoors. The Mast Arboretum, a botanical garden also a longer drive away, and the Old Stone Fort Museum, a museum a longer drive away, are good choices for a day out.
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- 8,898households
- 40.9median age
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Panola County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Panola County had 7,710 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Carthage weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Panola County
- Absolute Pipeline IntegrityPipeline, gas and oil, construction863
- Tyson PoultryPoultry processing551
- Carthage ISDSchool district354FTE
- Panola CollegeTwo-year college301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters200
- Louisiana-Pacific CarthageOriented strandboard manufacturing145
- Tgnr Holdco LLC - Carthage OfficeNatural gas production136
- Genpak CarthageThermal insulation, polystyrene foam, manufacturing125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,503 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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 windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Panola County, 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 Panola County and the Longview, TX metro.
Long Branch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Long Branch$235,228
- 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.
Zip codes with a Long Branch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Long Branch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.