Oak Ridge, Texas.
Typical home $383,981 (+0.0% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,083 (+116%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $169 +0%
- $383,813$383,981 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,859 +14%
- $337,122$383,981 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.
- Oak Ridge$2,015
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Oak Ridge, TX rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oak Ridge, Kaufman County, Texas
The Census does not count Oak Ridge on its own, so the figures here are Kaufman County's. Half the county's households earn more than $89,485 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 78% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Kaufman County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kaufman County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oak Ridge is a small town in Kaufman County, Texas. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is young compared with the country as a whole. Winters are cool, with the coldest weather in January, and summers are hot, peaking in August.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, building trades, or retail shops. Jobs across Kaufman County grew over the most recent year on record. A minority of adults hold a college degree, and working from home is less common than going to a workplace.
Things to do. Kaufman Lake is in or beside town, so it is the closest place to spend time on the water. Thrillvania, an amusement park, is a short drive away. The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is a longer drive away and is a botanical garden.
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- 50,990households
- 33.8median age
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Kaufman County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kaufman County had 45,719 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kaufman Southeast weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kaufman County
- Forney ISDSchool district2,294FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage953
- MadixFixtures, store display, manufacturing942
- Crandall ISDSchool district875FTE
- Terrell State HospitalPsychiatric hospital845FTE
- Terrell ISDSchool district626FTE
- Mabank ISDSchool district560FTE
- Kaufman ISDSchool district548FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,712 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
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kaufman County, 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 Kaufman County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Oak Ridge home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oak Ridge$383,981
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oak Ridge5
Zip codes with a Oak Ridge address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oak Ridge — 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.