Monahans, Texas.
Typical home $198,415 (+2.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$269 (+35%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,252 +3%
- $193,163$198,415 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $45,576 -19%
- $243,991$198,415 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.
- Monahans$1,041
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Monahans, TX rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Monahans, Ward County, Texas
Monahans is a city of 7,836 people in Ward County. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Ward County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Monahans is a small city in far West Texas, in Ward County. It is a younger town than many, with a median age lower than the national figure, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and a good number of residents live on low incomes. The climate is dry, with winters that are cool but not severe and summers that turn very hot by June.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in professional and business services or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Monahans are Monahans-Wickett-Pyote ISD, Ward Memorial Hospital and W 15th Street Opco, a skilled nursing facility. Ward County has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment has edged up a little. Commutes are fairly short, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Monahans Sandhills State Park, a protected area of sand dunes a longer drive away. Toyah Creek, Coyanosa Draw and Barilla Draw are rivers and draws in the surrounding country, each also a longer drive away.
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- 2,873households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ward County had 6,374 jobs in 2025, 2.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 98° and lows near 69°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Winkler County Airport weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monahans
- Monahans-wickett-pyote ISDSchool district363FTE
- Ward Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital86FTE
- W 15th Street OpcoSkilled nursing facilities60
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 60 people in all. 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Monahans’ 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 Ward County.
Monahans home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Monahans$198,415
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Monahans 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.
- Monahans18.26%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Monahans26
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Monahans10
Zip codes with a Monahans address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Monahans — 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.