Post, Texas.
Typical home $115,459 (+1.6% in a year). Lubbock, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$121 (+25%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,797 +2%
- $113,662$115,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $36,252 -24%
- $151,711$115,459 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.
- Post$606
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Post, TX rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Post, Garza County, Texas
Post is a city of 4,790 people in Garza County. Half its households earn more than $41,304 a year and half less; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Garza County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 16.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Post is a small city in Garza County, Texas, with a younger population than many towns its size and incomes that sit modestly below what is typical. Homes here are priced at a level that many buyers elsewhere would find easy to afford. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people drive a short way to work, with almost no one working from home.
Work. Many residents make their living in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, and in other service work. Across Garza County, the largest workplaces include Post ISD, United Supermarkets and Rocker A Fishing and Rental, an oil and gas field contractor. Unemployment across the county is about where it stood a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers are hot, with modest rainfall through the year. For time outdoors, Lake Alan Henry is a reservoir a longer drive away, and several rivers in the area, including the Double Mountain Fork Brazos River and the Salt Fork Brazos River, are also a longer drive from town.
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- 1,156households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Garza County had 1,361 jobs in 2025, 16.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 4 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Post weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Garza County
- Post ISDSchool district131FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket48
- Rocker A Fishing and RentalWell logging, oil and gas field, on a contract basis31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79 people in all across the county; Post has two of its own. School districts come 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
- HailRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Post’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Garza County and the Lubbock, TX metro.
Post home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Post$115,459
- 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.
- Post15
Zip codes with a Post address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Post — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.