Plainview, Texas.
Typical home $117,814 (-3.8% in a year). Plainview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$220 (+55%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,630 -4%
- $122,443$117,814 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $5,079 -4%
- $122,893$117,814 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.
- Plainview$618
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Plainview, TX fell 3.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plainview, Hale County, Texas
Plainview is a city of 20,187 people in Hale County. Half its households earn more than $44,768 a year and half less, against $51,897 across Hale County; 24% of its people live below the poverty line. 53% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 47% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plainview is a city in Hale County, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller share of adults than is typical. Winters are cold, with a little snow, and summers are hot, with modest rainfall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in government. Among the largest workplaces in Plainview are Plainview ISD, Wayland Baptist University and Covenant Hospital Plainview. Jobs across Hale County have slipped slightly over the past year, and the daily drive to work is short, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. Jaycee Park is a stadium in or beside town, handy for a game or an evening out. Running Water Draw is a river a longer drive away, for those who want a change of scene.
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- 7,161households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 24%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 52° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Plainview weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plainview
- Plainview ISDSchool district664FTE
- Wayland Baptist UniversityUniversity or college537
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters296
- Covenant Hospital PlainviewGeneral hospital235FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket168
- United SupermarketsSupermarket102
- Sodexo at Wayland Baptist UniversityFood service contractors52
- PlainviewMail and parcel delivery38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,214 people in all. 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 weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plainview’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 Hale County and the Plainview, TX metro.
Plainview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plainview$117,814
- 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 Plainview listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Plainview23.77%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plainview90
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Plainview14
Zip codes with a Plainview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plainview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.