Marfa, Texas.
Typical home $296,007 (-1.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$909 (+141%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,698 -2%
- $301,705$296,007 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,497 +21%
- $245,510$296,007 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.
- Marfa$1,554
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Marfa, TX fell 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marfa, Presidio County, Texas
Marfa is a city of 1,788 people in Presidio County. Unemployment in Presidio County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Presidio County work in schools and health care, then government.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marfa is a small city in Presidio County, in the high desert of far West Texas. Winters are cool, with chilly nights, and summers get properly hot, though the coldest and warmest months are the only ones the weather facts describe. Incomes across the county run below the national picture, and the town is small enough that people tend to know one another.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in the building trades, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Jobs across Presidio County slipped a little last year, and unemployment across the county was lower this August than a year before. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Presidio ISD, Village Farms and Marfa ISD, and a fair number of residents work from home.
Things to do. The Chinati Foundation, a museum of contemporary art, sits in or beside town. A longer drive away are Fort Davis National Historic Site and Davis Mountains State Park, both protected areas where visitors can walk, look around and take in the mountain country. The Museum of the Big Bend is another museum a longer drive off.
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- 1,165households
- 14%work from home
What people in Presidio County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Presidio County had 2,066 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 59° and lows near 26°; warmest in June, with highs near 92° and lows near 59°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marfa 3W weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Presidio County
- Presidio ISDSchool district218FTE
- Village farmsHydroponic crop farming127
- Marfa ISDSchool district54FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 150 people in all across the county; Marfa has two 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Marfa’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 Presidio County.
Marfa home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marfa$296,007
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 10 Marfa 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.
- Marfa10.05%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Marfa40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Marfa5
Zip codes with a Marfa address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marfa — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.