Lufkin, Texas.
Typical home $201,661 (-0.7% in a year), asking rent $1,341 (+2.4%). Lufkin, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$530 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,406 -1%
- $203,067$201,661 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,094 +15%
- $175,567$201,661 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.
- Lufkin$1,058
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Lufkin, TX fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lufkin, TX rose 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Lufkin runs $116/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $161 in Jun 2025.
That is $1,457 a month against $1,341 rent: a $1,058 mortgage payment, plus $182 property tax and $216 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lufkin
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$1,457
- Renting$1,341
- Mortgage only$1,058
Property tax · $182/mo 1.09% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Angelina County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $216/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 Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas
Lufkin is a city of 34,143 people in Angelina County. Half its households earn more than $57,048 a year and half less, against $60,960 across Angelina County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Lufkin was 5.0% in August 2026, and Angelina County had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Lufkin is a city in Angelina County, in the piney woods of East Texas. It is a young place by the standards of most towns, with a median age below what many older readers might expect, and household incomes a little below the county's. Homeowners and renters are nearly evenly split, and a typical home costs less than in much of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels also employing large numbers. Among the biggest workplaces in Lufkin are Memorial Medical Center of East Texas, Angelina College and H-E-B. Commutes are short, and the number of jobs across the county slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Ellen Trout Zoo and the Naranjo Museum of Natural History are both a short drive away, and the Pines Theater is in or beside town. For time outdoors, Angelina National Forest is a longer drive away, a protected area of woods. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
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- 12,912households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Angelina County had 35,617 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lufkin Angelina County Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lufkin
- Lufkin Pilgrim's Central ProcessingProcessed poultry manufacturing1,464
- CommonSpirit HealthGeneral medical and surgical hospitals788
- Angelina CollegeTwo-year college496
- Lockheed Martin Corporation Lufkin (1551)485
- H-E-BRetail346
- Brookshire BrothersGeneral warehousing and storage308
- Brookshire BrothersCorporate offices286
- Double R Brand FoodsSausage and similar cased products made from purchased carcasses226
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,245 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- LightningVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lufkin’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 Angelina County and the Lufkin, TX metro.
Lufkin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lufkin$201,661
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Lufkin listings, and the typical home goes pending in 56 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.
- Lufkin22.14%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Lufkin56
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lufkin261
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lufkin48
Zip codes with a Lufkin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lufkin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Lufkin
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75904 | Lufkin | 34,462 | $1,330 | $207,905 |
| 75901 | Lufkin | 28,234 | $1,428 | $194,527 |