Malakoff, Texas.
Typical home $235,547 (-4.8% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$573 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,790 -5%
- $247,336$235,547 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,216 -6%
- $250,762$235,547 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.
- Malakoff$1,236
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Malakoff, TX fell 4.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Malakoff, Henderson County, Texas
Malakoff is a city of 2,179 people in Henderson County. Half its households earn more than $56,719 a year and half less, against $65,179 across Henderson County. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Malakoff is a small East Texas city where households earn less than across Henderson County as a whole. A minority of adults hold a four-year degree, and some people do their jobs from home. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot by August, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in shops, the building trades and manufacturing. Across Henderson County, the biggest workplaces include Argon Medical Devices, which makes needles and syringes, Trinity Valley Community College and Athens ISD. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. A short drive away, the East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society is a botanical garden, and Cedar Creek runs nearby for time by the water. For a longer outing, Cedar Creek Reservoir is a large reservoir, and Purtis Creek State Park is a protected area for the outdoors. The Neches River is also a longer drive from town.
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- 828households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 11%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 20,065 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Athens weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Argon Medical DevicesHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing552
- Trinity Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college537
- Athens ISDSchool district437FTE
- UT Heath AthensGeneral hospital411FTE
- Brownsboro ISDSchool district402FTE
- BiomericsCatheters manufacturing347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,132 people in all across the county; Malakoff has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Malakoff’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 Henderson County and the Athens, TX metro.
Malakoff home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Malakoff$235,547
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Malakoff listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Malakoff15.48%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Malakoff70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Malakoff9
Zip codes with a Malakoff address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Malakoff — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.