Powell, Texas.
Typical home $275,192 (+4.4% in a year). Corsicana, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$134 (+10%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $11,476 +4%
- $263,716$275,192 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.
- Powell$1,444
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Powell, TX rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Powell, Navarro County, Texas
Powell is a town of 99 people in Navarro County. Half its households earn more than $26,667 a year and half less, against $63,111 across Navarro County. Unemployment in Navarro County was 5.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Navarro County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Powell is a small town in Navarro County, in east-central Texas. Its household incomes are well below the county's, and its population is among the smallest of the places listed for the area. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with August the warmest. Plenty of rain falls across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops, or in the building trades. Few people work from home, and far fewer than across the country as a whole. Unemployment in Navarro County has risen a little over the past year, while the number of jobs in the county grew slightly in the most recent year on record.
Things to do. Cedar Creek Reservoir is one of the best-known places nearby, a reservoir a longer drive away. Purtis Creek State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area for walks and time outdoors. The East Texas Arboretum and Botanical Society, a botanical garden, is another longer drive away.
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- 3%work from home
What people in Navarro County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Navarro County had 16,809 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 38°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 39 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corsicana Campbell Field weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Navarro County
- Corsicana ISDSchool district849FTE
- Watkins ConstructionPipeline construction on oil and gas field gathering lines to point of distribution on a contract basis832
- Navarro CollegeUniversity or college751
- Russell Stover Chocolates LLC CorsicanaCandy manufacturing417
- Navarro Regional HospitalGeneral hospital325FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters302
- Kohl's253
- H-E-BRetail234
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,764 people in all across the county; Powell has none 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- LightningRelatively 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 Powell’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 Navarro County and the Corsicana, TX metro.
Powell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Powell$275,192
- 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.
Zip codes with a Powell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Powell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Powell
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75109 | Corsicana | 5,344 | — | $405,044 |
| 75153 | Powell | 647 | — | $270,269 |