Quitman, Texas.
Typical home $250,309 (-0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$698 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,790 -1%
- $252,099$250,309 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,521 +11%
- $225,788$250,309 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.
- Quitman$1,314
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 34 years.
Typical home values in Quitman, TX fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Quitman, Wood County, Texas
Quitman is a city of 1,942 people in Wood County. Half its households earn more than $64,493 a year and half less, against $60,300 across Wood County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Wood County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Quitman is a small city and the seat of Wood County in East Texas. Its residents are somewhat older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and a typical home is valued well above what many first-time buyers might expect to pay in a town this size.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades and manufacturing also employing many people. Among the largest workplaces in town are Quitman ISD, the UT Health East Texas Quitman Hospital and Tim Jackson Construction Co. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, the commute to work is fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Water is the main draw nearby. Lake Winnsboro, Lake Fork Reservoir and Lake Holbrook are all a short drive away, and Rainwater Creek is close as well. Tyler State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive for a day out. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain falls through much of the year.
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- 884households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wood County had 10,735 jobs in 2025, 1.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 73°. About 45 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Fk Rsvr weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Quitman
- Quitman ISDSchool district207FTE
- UT Health East Texas Quitman HospitaCritical access hospital131FTE
- Tim Jackson Construction CoSchool building construction95
- Caraday of QuitmanNursing homes28
- Sodexo at AH UT Quitman Hospital ESJanitorial services22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 354 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Quitman’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 Wood County.
Quitman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Quitman$250,309
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Quitman listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Quitman29.21%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Quitman89
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Quitman16
Zip codes with a Quitman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Quitman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.