Perrin, Texas.
Typical home $362,292 (+1.8% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$536 (+39%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,503 +2%
- $355,789$362,292 since Sep 2025
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.
- Perrin$1,902
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Perrin, TX rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Perrin, Jack County, Texas
Perrin, in Jack County, had 346 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Jack County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 4.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jack County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Perrin is a very small community in Jack County, Texas, where neighbors are likely to know one another. Homes here are typically valued well above what the county's modest household incomes might suggest. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and highs a little above freezing, and summers are hot, peaking in August. Rain and melted snow come in moderate amounts across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Jack County, the largest workplaces include Faith Community Hospital, Jacksboro ISD and the Perrin-Whitt school district. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though there were fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. Fort Richardson is a historic fort, a longer drive away. Lake Mineral Wells State Park & Trailway is a protected area, also a longer drive away. Possum Kingdom Lake is a reservoir that suits a day on the water, likewise a longer drive from town.
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What people in Jack County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jack County had 2,194 jobs in 2025, 4.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 71°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Jacksboro weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jack County
- Faith Community HospitalGeneral hospital199FTE
- Jacksboro ISDSchool district163FTE
- Black & VeatchSolar power structure construction139
- Perrin-whitt CisdSchool district51FTE
- Bryson ISDSchool district40FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 164 people in all across the county; Perrin has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perrin’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 Jack County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Perrin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perrin$362,292
- 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.
- Perrin11
Zip codes with a Perrin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perrin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.