Rotan, Texas.
Typical home $78,282 (-3.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$13 (+3%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $2,437 -3%
- $80,719$78,282 since Sep 2025
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.
- Rotan$411
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Rotan, TX fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Rotan, Fisher County, Texas
Rotan is a city of 1,332 people in Fisher County. Half its households earn more than $53,289 a year and half less, against $65,533 across Fisher County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Fisher County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fisher 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Rotan is a small Texas city in Fisher County, with a population that is among the smaller ones in the state. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Incomes run below the county's, and more residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town of its kind. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places. Winters are cool and mostly dry, with only a little snow, while summers are hot.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, farming, forestry and mining, and transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Fisher County, some of the largest workplaces are Gold Bond Building Products, which makes wallboard, the Roby Cisd Schools district and Big Country Electric Cooperative. Unemployment in the county is low and about the same as a year earlier, though the county has lost a few jobs over the past year. A typical commute is fairly short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Several creeks lie within reach, among them Sweetwater Creek, Duck Creek and Noodle Creek, each a river a longer drive away. The Panhandle Plains Wildlife Trail, a protected area also a longer drive away, suits those who like to watch birds and other wildlife.
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- 516households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What people in Fisher County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fisher County had 818 jobs in 2025, 1.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 75°. About 4 inches of snow and 24 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Rotan weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fisher County
- Gold Bond Building ProductsWallboard, gypsum, manufacturing70
- Roby CisdSchool district65FTE
- Big Country Electric CooperativeDistribution of electric power63
- Fisher County Hospital DistrictCritical access hospital63FTE
- Rotan ISDSchool district51FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 133 people in all across the county; Rotan has one 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
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rotan’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 Fisher County.
Rotan home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rotan$78,282
- 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.
- Rotan13
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Rotan address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rotan — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.