Reklaw, Texas.
Typical home $240,359 (+2.5% in a year). Jacksonville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$691 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,789 +2%
- $234,570$240,359 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $37,004 +18%
- $203,354$240,359 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.
- Reklaw$1,262
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Reklaw, TX rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Reklaw, Cherokee County, Texas
Reklaw is a city of 332 people in Cherokee County. 97% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 3% are rented. Unemployment in Cherokee County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cherokee County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Reklaw is a very small city in Cherokee County, in the piney woods of East Texas. Nearly everyone who lives here owns their home, far more than is usual across the county or the country, and a typical home is worth a good deal less than in much of Texas. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers are hot, and a fair amount of rain falls through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and the building trades. Across Cherokee County, some of the largest workplaces are Rusk State Hospital, Jacksonville ISD and Helmerich & Payne, Inc., which drills oil and gas wells. Commutes tend to be long, and only a small group of residents work from home.
Things to do. Mud Creek, a river, is a short drive away. Farther afield are Mission Tejas State Park, a protected area good for time outdoors, and Mast Arboretum, a botanical garden. Caddo Mounds State Historic Site, a museum, is also a longer drive away.
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- 13%below the poverty line
- 39 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Cherokee County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cherokee County had 14,947 jobs in 2025, 0.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 72°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rusk weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cherokee County
- Helmerich & Payne, Inc.Drilling oil and gas wells1,381
- Rusk State HospitalPsychiatric hospital942FTE
- Jacksonville ISDSchool district829FTE
- Altman Specialty PlantsFlorist's supplies merchant wholesalers437
- Bullard ISDSchool district435FTE
- Allied Truss Texas JacksonvilleTrusses, wood roof or floor, manufacturing425
- Rusk ISDSchool district344FTE
- Beall SGeneral warehousing and storage342
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 46 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,085 people in all across the county; Reklaw has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Reklaw’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 Cherokee County and the Jacksonville, TX metro.
Reklaw home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Reklaw$240,359
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Reklaw address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Reklaw — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.