McLean, Texas.
. Pampa, TX metro.
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 McLean, Gray County, Texas
McLean is a town of 665 people in Gray County. Unemployment in Gray County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gray 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. McLean is a very small town on the Texas Panhandle plains, with a population that is small even by rural standards. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and almost no one works from home, which fits a place where most jobs are done on site. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers get hot; the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Gray County, some of the biggest employers are Pampa ISD, Pampa Regional Medical Center and Walmart. The county has added a few more jobs over the past year, and unemployment is slightly lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is in or beside town, and it is one of the best known stops in the area. McClellan Creek is a short drive away. A longer drive leads to McClellan Creek National Grassland, a protected area, and to Fort Elliott, a historic fort.
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- 7%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 1%work from home
What people in Gray County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gray County had 7,622 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 52° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 67°. About 8 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mc Lean weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gray County
- Pampa ISDSchool district476FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters259
- Hunting Energy ServicesBits, rock drill, oil and gas field-type, manufacturing234
- Holman Well ServiceOil well logging on a contract basis175
- Pampa Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital158FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket132
- CabotCarbon black manufacturing120
- National Oilwell Vargo (NOV)Wind turbines manufacturing100
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,728 people in all across the county; McLean has one 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in McLean’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Gray County and the Pampa, TX metro.
McLean 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.
- McLean12
Zip codes with a McLean address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls McLean — 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.