Powderly, Texas.
Typical home $278,378 (+2.5% in a year). Paris, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$826 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,726 +2%
- $271,652$278,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $49,885 +22%
- $228,494$278,378 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.
- Powderly$1,461
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Powderly, TX rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powderly, Lamar County, Texas
Powderly, in Lamar County, had 1,261 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powderly is a small community in Lamar County, in the northeast corner of Texas. Few households here live below the poverty line, and homes are valued above what is typical for many small Texas towns. Winters are cool and short, with January the coldest month and mild afternoons, while summers turn hot, especially in August. Rain and melted snow fall steadily through the year, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, or 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 it was a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Pat Mayse Lake and Lake Crook are both a short drive away, and Sanders Creek, a river, is close by as well. For a longer outing, Raymond Gary State Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Lamar County Historical Museum is also a longer drive from town.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 2%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, 10 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; Powderly 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Powderly’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.
Powderly home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powderly$278,378
- 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 5 Powderly 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.
- Powderly20.44%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Powderly31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Powderly address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powderly — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.