Meadow, Texas.
Typical home $153,958 (+0.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$20 (+3%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $1,325 +1%
- $152,633$153,958 since Sep 2025
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.
- Meadow$808
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Meadow, TX rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Meadow, Terry County, Texas
Meadow is a town of 601 people in Terry County. Unemployment in Terry County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Terry County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Meadow is a very small town on the South Plains of Texas, where neighbors are likely to know one another and the land around is mostly open and given over to farming. Winters are cold, with a little snow most years, and summers turn hot. The yearly rainfall is modest, in keeping with the dry plains climate. Homes here cost less than in many parts of the country, and incomes across Terry County run below the national picture.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and plenty more work in farming, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Terry County, some of the largest workplaces are Brownfield ISD, Brownfield Regional Medical Center and United Supermarkets. Unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year, though the number of jobs there has dipped a little. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and a small share work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, most people head to Lubbock, a longer drive away, where the Buddy Holly Center is a museum devoted to the Texas rock and roll pioneer. The National Ranching Heritage Center is another museum there, telling the story of ranch life on the plains. For something livelier, Joyland Amusement Park is also a longer drive away.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Terry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Terry County had 3,097 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 68°. About 5 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Brownfield #2 weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Terry County
- Brownfield ISDSchool district317FTE
- Brownfield Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital140FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket106
- Birdsong PeanutsPeanut shelling73
- Warren Power & MachineryIndustrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers59
- Wellman-union CisdSchool district50FTE
- Meadow ISDSchool district46FTE
- South Plains Implement, LTD - BrownfieldFarm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 288 people in all across the county; Meadow 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Meadow’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 Terry County.
Meadow home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Meadow$153,958
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
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.
Zip codes with a Meadow address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Meadow — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.