Parker, Texas.
Typical home $1,088,753 (-1.4% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,293 (+136%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $15,007 -1%
- $1,103,760$1,088,753 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $205,972 +23%
- $882,782$1,088,753 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.
- Parker$5,715
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Parker, TX fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Parker, Collin County, Texas
Parker is a city of 5,462 people in Collin County. Half its households earn more than $229,080 a year and half less, against $121,600 across Collin County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 99% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 1% are rented. Unemployment in Collin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Collin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Parker is a small residential city in Collin County where nearly every home is lived in by its owners. Incomes run well above the county's, and relatively few residents live below the poverty line. Residents tend to be older than in many towns, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month but rarely harsh, while August brings real heat. Rain and melted snow add up to a moderate amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, as well as in professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Across Collin County, some of the largest workplaces are Frisco ISD, Plano ISD and Collin County Community College District. The typical commute is a fairly ordinary drive, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Southfork Ranch, a museum, is in or beside town. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Toyota Stadium, a stadium, and the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Zoo is also a longer drive away.
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- 1,590households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Collin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Collin County had 562,572 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richardson weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Collin County
- Frisco ISDSchool district8,074FTE
- Plano ISDSchool district6,367FTE
- EricssonVoip service providers, using client-supplied telecommunications connections5,945
- Raytheon_McKinney_TX5,216
- Collin County Community College DistrictUniversity or college3,563
- Prosper ISDSchool district3,133FTE
- Mckinney ISDSchool district2,689FTE
- Allen ISDSchool district2,639FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 629 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 111,763 people in all across the county; Parker has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailVery high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ParkerRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Parker’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 Collin County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Parker home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Parker$1,088,753
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Parker 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.
- Parker31.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Parker37
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Parker8
Zip codes with a Parker address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Parker — 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.