New Boston, Texas.
Typical home $178,258 (+0.1% in a year). Texarkana, TX-AR metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$362 (+63%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $260 +0%
- $177,998$178,258 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,333 -7%
- $191,591$178,258 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.
- New Boston$936
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in New Boston, TX rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in New Boston, Bowie County, Texas
New Boston is a city of 4,612 people in Bowie County. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Bowie County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Bowie 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. New Boston is a small city in Bowie County, in the northeast corner of Texas. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and the people who live here are close to the age of the typical American. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the country, and more people live below the poverty line than in most places. Winters are mild and brief, with little snow, and summers run hot, while rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. Across Bowie County, some of the largest workplaces are Christus ST Michael, a general hospital, Texarkana ISD, a school district, and Wadley Regional Medical Center, another general hospital. Jobs across the county grew only a little last year, and unemployment there has stayed close to where it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Atlanta State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Wright Patman Lake is a reservoir that is also a longer drive away. Those who prefer indoor outings can head to the Four States Auto Museum, a museum, also a longer drive away.
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- 1,833households
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What people in Bowie County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bowie County had 42,360 jobs in 2025, 0.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 69°. About 3 inches of snow and 53 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dekalb weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bowie County
- Christus St MichaelGeneral hospital1,651FTE
- Texarkana ISDSchool district1,204FTE
- NH Enterprises d.b.a CSI PharmacyHome nursing services715
- Ledwell & SON EnterprisesMotor vehicle merchant wholesalers606
- Amentum ServicesAutomotive repair and replacement shops, general572
- Wadley Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital497FTE
- TCI - TexarkanaPrimary aluminum production and manufacturing aluminum alloys489
- Collom and Carney main clinicPhysicians' offices430
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 75 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,458 people in all across the county; New Boston has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of New BostonRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of New BostonRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in New Boston’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 Bowie County and the Texarkana, TX-AR metro.
New Boston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- New Boston$178,258
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 New Boston 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.
- New Boston19.32%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- New Boston54
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- New Boston10
Zip codes with a New Boston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls New Boston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.