Ranger, Texas.
Typical home $105,830 (-1.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$190 (+52%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,904 -2%
- $107,734$105,830 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $16,574 -14%
- $122,404$105,830 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.
- Ranger$555
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ranger, TX fell 1.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ranger, Stephens County, Texas
Ranger is a city of 2,300 people in Stephens County. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Stephens County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ranger is a small city in Stephens County, Texas, with a younger population than many small towns, where people are somewhat more likely to own their homes than to rent. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow, while summers run hot, and rain falls at a modest, steady rate through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in shops, and in the building trades. Very few work from home. Across Stephens County, the largest workplaces include Breckenridge ISD, Stephens Memorial Hospital and Walmart, and household incomes in the county are modest. Unemployment across the county is unchanged from a year earlier, and the number of jobs there has edged up.
Things to do. Lake Leon, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as is Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, a protected area for walking and time outdoors. Ellis Burks Field, a stadium, is in or beside town. For a longer outing, Possum Kingdom State Park is a longer drive away.
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- 1,035households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stephens County had 3,309 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eastland weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stephens County
- Breckenridge ISDSchool district238FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters148
- Jonell SystemsFilters, industrial and general purpose-type, manufacturing126
- RaydonExcavation contractors96
- Stephens Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital88FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket50
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 420 people in all across the county; Ranger has two of its own. 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Ranger’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 Stephens County.
Ranger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ranger$105,830
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Ranger listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Ranger18.89%
- United States25.56%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ranger19
Zip codes with a Ranger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ranger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.