Roscoe, Texas.
Typical home $138,747 (+17.8% in a year). Sweetwater, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$346 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,981 +18%
- $117,766$138,747 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $17,244 +14%
- $121,503$138,747 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.
- Roscoe$728
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Roscoe, TX rose 17.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Roscoe, Nolan County, Texas
Roscoe is a city of 1,271 people in Nolan County. Half its households earn more than $56,326 a year and half less, against $50,747 across Nolan County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Nolan County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nolan 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Roscoe is a small West Texas city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country. Households earn more than the Nolan County average, and the population is younger than in many small towns. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cool rather than harsh and cold snaps are short, while summers are hot, with July the warmest month and afternoons that can be very hot indeed. Snow is rare and light, and the year is fairly dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and retail. Across Nolan County, some of the largest workplaces are Ludlum Measurements, which makes radiation gauges, Sweetwater ISD, and USG, which runs a wallboard plant and quarry. Jobs across the county were slightly fewer last year than the year before, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Lake Colorado City State Park is the best known nearby spot, a state park and lake a longer drive away. Champion Creek Reservoir, also a longer drive away, is a reservoir suited to a day by the water. Beals Creek is a river in the same stretch of country, again a longer drive away.
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- 515households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
What people in Nolan County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nolan County had 6,177 jobs in 2025, 0.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Roscoe weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nolan County
- Ludlum MeasurementsLevel gauges, radiation-type, manufacturing509
- Sweetwater ISDSchool district350FTE
- USGWall board and quarry254
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters211
- Rolling Plains Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital188FTE
- Sweetwater Gypsum EAST148
- TMC Transportation - Sweetwater Georgia PacificFlatbed trucking, long-distance122
- Sweetwater Gypsum West107
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,789 people in all across the county; Roscoe has none 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Roscoe’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 Nolan County and the Sweetwater, TX metro.
Roscoe home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Roscoe$138,747
- 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.
- Roscoe8
Zip codes with a Roscoe address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Roscoe — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.