Longview, Texas.
Typical home $232,947 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,140 (+3.4%). Longview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$582 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,445 +1%
- $231,501$232,947 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,030 +25%
- $186,917$232,947 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.
- Longview$1,223
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Longview, TX rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Longview, TX rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Longview runs $558/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $626 in Oct 2023.
That is $1,698 a month against $1,140 rent: a $1,223 mortgage payment, plus $226 property tax and $249 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Longview
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,698
- Renting$1,140
- Mortgage only$1,223
Property tax · $226/mo 1.16% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Gregg County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $249/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Longview, Gregg County, Texas
Longview is a city of 81,638 people in Gregg County. Half its households earn more than $63,340 a year and half less, against $66,550 across Gregg County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Longview was 5.2% in August 2026, and Gregg County had 1.0% more 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. Longview is a city in Gregg County, in East Texas, with a fairly young population for a place its size. Incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of households fall below the poverty line, but a majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Winters are mild and short, with snow rare and rain fairly plentiful through the year, while summers turn hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Longview are Good Shepherd Medical Center, Longview ISD and AAON Coil Products. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people commute by car, with only a small number working from home.
Things to do. Conrad Vernon Field, a stadium, is a short drive away. Farther out, Martin Creek Lake State Park is a park for walking and time by the water, and Lake O' the Pines is a reservoir, both a longer drive away. Hot summers make the lakes the natural choice for getting outdoors.
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- 33,009households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gregg County had 75,602 jobs in 2025, 1.0% 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 96° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longview #2 weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Longview
- Good Shepherd Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,123FTE
- Elara CaringHome health care agencies1,479
- Longview ISDSchool district1,280FTE
- AAON Coil ProductsAir-conditioning and warm air heating combination units manufacturing1,229
- Longview RegionalGeneral hospital870FTE
- Eagle Infrastructure ServicesOil well logging on a contract basis865
- Pine Tree ISDSchool district682FTE
- LeTourneau UniversityUniversity or college540
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 98 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 16,760 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Longview’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 Gregg County and the Longview, TX metro.
Longview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Longview$232,947
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Longview listings, and the typical home goes pending in 43 days — 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.
- Longview27.40%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Longview43
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Longview556
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Longview119
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Longview$276,713
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Longview97.19%
Zip codes with a Longview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Longview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Longview
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75605 | Longview | 35,417 | $1,157 | $288,584 |
| 75604 | Longview | 31,924 | $1,036 | $219,655 |
| 75602 | Longview | 20,671 | $1,184 | $141,347 |
| 75601 | Longview | 15,780 | $1,336 | $214,986 |
| 75603 | Longview | 6,061 | — | $251,651 |