Petty, Texas.
. Paris, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Living in Petty, Lamar County, Texas
Petty, in Lamar County, had 140 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Lamar County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lamar 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Petty is a very small community in Lamar County, Texas, with only a few residents compared with most towns. Fewer residents here live below the poverty line than across much of the country. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with plenty of rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing and in the building trades. Across Lamar County, some of the largest workplaces are The Campbell's Company - Paris, Paris ISD and Paris Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is higher than a year earlier, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Bonham State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and Coffee Mill Lake is a reservoir that is also a longer drive away. The Lamar County Historical Museum is another longer drive from town, for a look at local history.
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- 3%below the poverty line
What people in Lamar County 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, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamar County
- The Campbell's Company - ParisSoups canning606
- Paris ISDSchool district582FTE
- Paris Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital501FTE
- North Lamar ISDSchool district418FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters418
- PJ Trailers SumnerTruck trailer manufacturing397
- Paris Junior CollegeTwo-year college310
- Norstar TrailersFlatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,143 people in all across the county; Petty has none of its own. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Petty’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 Lamar County and the Paris, TX metro.
Petty home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Petty address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Petty — 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.