Petersburg, Texas.
Typical home $94,516 (-1.4% in a year). Plainview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$115 (+30%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $1,327 -1%
- $95,843$94,516 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.
- Petersburg$496
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Petersburg, TX fell 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Petersburg, Hale County, Texas
Petersburg is a city of 1,014 people in Hale County. Unemployment in Hale County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hale County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Petersburg is a very small city on the Texas High Plains in Hale County, the kind of place where most people know one another. Homes here are modest in price, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers turn hot, while the year as a whole is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, or in farming. Across Hale County, some of the largest workplaces are Plainview ISD, Wayland Baptist University and Covenant Hospital Plainview. The usual trip to work takes a fair stretch of time, and few people work from home. Jobs across the county slipped slightly last year, and unemployment is a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away is Running Water Draw, a river course for time outdoors. Farther afield, the Buddy Holly Center is a museum honoring one of the best known musicians to come from the region, and the Silent Wings Museum is another museum within a longer drive. Each of these is a longer outing than a trip around town.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Hale County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hale County had 10,840 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 67°. About 6 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Abernathy weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hale County
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,155
- Plainview ISDSchool district664FTE
- Wayland Baptist UniversityUniversity or college537
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters296
- Azteca MillingMeal, corn, for human consumption made in flour mills274
- Covenant Hospital PlainviewGeneral hospital235FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket168
- Abernathy ISDSchool district132FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,355 people in all across the county; Petersburg has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Petersburg’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 Hale County and the Plainview, TX metro.
Petersburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Petersburg$94,516
- 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.
- Petersburg8
Zip codes with a Petersburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Petersburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.