Panhandle, Texas.
Typical home $207,466 (+4.7% in a year). Amarillo, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$513 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,309 +5%
- $198,157$207,466 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $22,581 +12%
- $184,884$207,466 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.
- Panhandle$1,089
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Panhandle, TX rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Panhandle, Carson County, Texas
Panhandle is a town of 2,378 people in Carson County. Half its households earn more than $85,870 a year and half less, against $85,231 across Carson County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 77% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Carson County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Panhandle is a small town on the high plains of Carson County, where most homes are lived in by their owners and incomes run a little above the county's. Fewer households here live below the poverty line than in many Texas towns, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with light snow, and summers turn hot, while the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, in banks, insurance and property, and in government. Across Carson County, the largest workplaces include Panhandle ISD, White Deer ISD and Carson County Gin. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. A typical commute is short, and a small number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Carson County Square House Museum, in or beside town, is the closest stop for local history. A longer drive brings you to Lake Meredith, a reservoir with a national recreation area around it, and to Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, an archaeological site. Wonderland Park, an amusement park, is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,152households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Carson County had 7,046 jobs in 2025, 3.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Panhandle weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carson County
- Panhandle ISDSchool district104FTE
- White Deer ISDSchool district64FTE
- Groom ISDSchool district32FTE
- Hensel Phelps Construction CoAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building27
- Carson County GinCotton ginning23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 50 people in all across the county; Panhandle has one of its own. School districts come 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Panhandle’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Carson County and the Amarillo, TX metro.
Panhandle home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Panhandle$207,466
- 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.
- Panhandle16
Zip codes with a Panhandle address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Panhandle — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.