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Roaring Springs, Texas.

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What it costs per month · Roaring Springs $1,556/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$751 (+93%) since Jan 2020.

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.

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  • Texas$1,556
  • United States$1,922

Living in Roaring Springs, Motley County, Texas

Roaring Springs is a town of 217 people in Motley County. Half its households earn more than $39,423 a year and half less, against $61,154 across Motley County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Motley County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Motley County work in schools and health care, then farming.

People 217 in the 2020 census; median age 57.7
Household income $39,423 the median, give or take $5,087 · Motley County: $61,154
Unemployment 5.1% Motley County, August 2026; 5.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Roaring Springs for the Census survey to measure.

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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roaring Springs is a very small town in Motley County, Texas, and an older one: its residents are considerably older than the typical American community. Household incomes run well below the county's, and a modest share of people live below the poverty line. The scale is that of a place where neighbors tend to know one another.

Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then shops and the building trades. Among the largest workplaces across Motley County are Moss & Associates, which builds solar power structures, and Motley County ISD, the school district. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs there has stayed about level.

Things to do. The Tongue River is a short drive away, and Quitaque Creek is a longer drive off. Also a longer drive away is the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum. Winters are cold and mild in the sense of rarely snowy, with a little snow most years, while summers turn hot, so the warmer months suit the water better.

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  • 11%below the poverty line

What people in Motley County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care28%
  • Farming, forestry and mining20%
  • Shops (retail)14%
  • Building trades10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment6%
  • Government5%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Motley County had 305 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 28°; warmest in July, 93° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 28° F M A M J J 93° 69° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 28°; warmest in July, 93° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 28° F M A M J J 93° 69° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 6 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Matador weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Motley County

  1. Moss & AssociatesSolar power structure construction136
  2. Motley County ISDSchool district38FTE

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 136 people in all across the county; Roaring Springs has none of its own. School districts come 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

  1. HailVery high
  2. DroughtRelatively high
  3. WildfireRelatively high
  4. Strong windRelatively high
  5. Winter weatherRelatively high
  6. Ice stormsRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roaring Springs’ 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 Motley County.

Roaring Springs home values

Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

Not enough data to draw this yet.

Market heat, inside the city limits

Homes for sale

Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.

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Zip codes with a Roaring Springs address

A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roaring Springs — 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.