Pantego, Texas.
Typical home $347,233 (-2.0% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$898 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $7,047 -2%
- $354,280$347,233 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,468 +13%
- $306,765$347,233 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.
- Pantego$1,823
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Pantego, TX fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pantego, Tarrant County, Texas
Pantego is a town of 2,568 people in Tarrant County. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Tarrant County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pantego is a small town in Tarrant County, Texas, set among the cities of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though there are more renters than a town of this kind might suggest, and a good many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, summers are hot, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in the building trades. Walmart, Oncor Electric Delivery and Rentokil North America are among the largest workplaces in town. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. A short drive away are several of the area's best-known sports venues, including AT&T Stadium and Globe Life Field, as well as the amusement park Six Flags Over Texas. For museums, the Dallas Museum of Art is a longer drive away.
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- 1,062households
- 50%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 18%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tarrant County had 1,017,941 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 75°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Arlington Municipal Airport weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pantego
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores122
- Oncor Electric DeliveryDistribution of electric power95
- Rentokil North AmericaNot required60
- Tom's MechanicalPlumbing and heating contractors52
- Ogle School Hair Skin Nails-ArlingtonCareer school50
- Morada PantegoSenior living33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 362 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Pantego’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 Tarrant County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Pantego home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pantego$347,233
- 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.
- Pantego12
Zip codes with a Pantego address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pantego — 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.