McCamey, Texas.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in McCamey, Upton County, Texas
McCamey is a city of 1,831 people in Upton County. Unemployment in Upton County was 2.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Upton County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McCamey is a small city in Upton County, in the dry country of West Texas. Its residents skew a little older than the typical American town, and poverty is somewhat more common here than in many places. Winters are mild and brief, with cold nights in January and almost no snow, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow are light across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, and others work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in shops. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and hardly anyone works from home, since most jobs here are done on site. Across Upton County, the largest workplaces include McCamey ISD, the McCamey County Hospital District and NextEra Energy. Unemployment is low, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The one nearby place on the list is Tunas Creek, a river a short drive away. It offers a quiet spot to get outside in a town where open country begins close to home.
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- 711households
- 2%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 0%work from home
What people in Upton County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Upton County had 3,904 jobs in 2025, 1.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 73°. About 1 inches of snow and 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mccamey weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Upton County
- Mccamey ISDSchool district99FTE
- Rankin ISDSchool district85FTE
- Rankin County Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital71FTE
- Mccamey County Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital62FTE
- NextEra EnergyWind electric power generation53
- Phillips 66 - Pegasus PlantNatural gas production28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 81 people in all across the county; McCamey has two of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively 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 McCamey’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 Upton County.
McCamey home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- McCamey14
Zip codes with a McCamey address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McCamey — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.