Paris, Texas.
Typical home $170,954 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $1,348 . Paris, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$456 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $402 +0%
- $170,552$170,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $8,968 +6%
- $161,986$170,954 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.
- Paris$897
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 64 years.
Typical home values in Paris, TX rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Paris is a city of 24,476 people in Lamar County. Half its households earn more than $47,239 a year and half less, against $61,880 across Lamar County; 26% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Paris was 6.1% in August 2026, and Lamar County had 0.6% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Paris is a small city in Lamar County in northeast Texas, with a population on the younger side compared with many towns its size. Incomes here run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than most would expect, while a smaller share of homes are lived in by their owners than is typical, so renting is common. Winters are cool and fairly short, summers get very hot by August, and rain falls steadily through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Paris are The Campbell's Company, which runs a soup canning plant, Paris ISD and Paris Regional Medical Center. Commutes are short, and unemployment has risen compared with a year ago, as the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Lamar County Historical Museum is a place to learn about the area's past, and H. L. "Hub" Hollis Field is the local stadium. Lake Crook, a reservoir, is a short drive away for time on the water. Those willing to go farther can reach the Caddo National Grassland, a protected area a longer drive from town.
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- 9,870households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 26%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamar County had 22,227 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paris weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Paris
- The Campbell's Company - ParisSoups canning606
- Paris ISDSchool district582FTE
- Paris Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital501FTE
- North Lamar ISDSchool district418FTE
- Paris Junior CollegeTwo-year college310
- Huhtamaki Inc - ParisBoxes, folding, made from purchased paperboard220
- Turner Industries GroupOther heavy and civil engineering const183
- Stillhouse RehabSkilled nursing facilities122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,980 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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 stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Paris’ 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 Lamar County and the Paris, TX metro.
Paris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Paris$170,954
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Paris listings, and the typical home goes pending in 41 days — 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.
- Paris24.95%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Paris41
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Paris210
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Paris35
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Paris$219,370
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Paris94.50%
Zip codes with a Paris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Paris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Paris
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75460 | Paris | 23,426 | $1,339 | $129,252 |
| 75462 | Paris | 12,372 | — | $274,534 |