Murchison, Texas.
Typical home $241,430 (-0.0% in a year). Athens, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$663 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $118 -0%
- $241,548$241,430 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,110 +9%
- $221,320$241,430 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.
- Murchison$1,267
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 40 years.
Typical home values in Murchison, TX fell 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Murchison, Henderson County, Texas
Murchison is a city of 516 people in Henderson County. Half its households earn more than $56,908 a year and half less, against $65,179 across Henderson County. Unemployment in Henderson County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Henderson 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Murchison is a very small East Texas city, with far fewer residents than most towns that have their own post office and city hall. Household incomes here run below the county's, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and nights that dip close to freezing, while summers turn very hot. Rain falls through the year, and snow is rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing close behind. Across Henderson County, the largest workplaces include Trinity Valley Community College, Athens ISD and UT Health Athens. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Athens, a reservoir, and the East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society, a botanical garden, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Lake Palestine is a reservoir a longer drive away, and Purtis Creek State Park is a protected area, also a longer drive away. The Neches River, a longer drive away too, suits anyone who likes time by the water.
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- 11%of adults have a degree
- 29 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Henderson County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Henderson County had 20,065 jobs in 2025, 2.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 45 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Athens weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Henderson County
- Argon Medical DevicesHypodermic needles and syringes manufacturing552
- Trinity Valley Community CollegeUniversity or college537
- Athens ISDSchool district437FTE
- UT Heath AthensGeneral hospital411FTE
- Brownsboro ISDSchool district402FTE
- BiomericsCatheters manufacturing347
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters345
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters339
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 37 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,132 people in all across the county; Murchison has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murchison’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 Henderson County and the Athens, TX metro.
Murchison home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murchison$241,430
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Murchison 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.
- Murchison18.00%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Murchison31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Murchison5
Zip codes with a Murchison address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murchison — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.