Scurry, Texas.
Typical home $330,687 (+2.5% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$921 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,081 +3%
- $322,606$330,687 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,312 +15%
- $287,375$330,687 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.
- Scurry$1,736
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Scurry, TX rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Scurry, Kaufman County, Texas
Scurry is a town of 688 people in Kaufman County. Half its households earn more than $84,732 a year and half less, against $89,485 across Kaufman County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Kaufman County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 5.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Scurry is a very small town in Kaufman County, Texas, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, while summers turn hot, peaking in August.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and professional and business services. Across Kaufman County, some of the largest workplaces are Forney ISD, Amazon and Madix. The typical commute is long, and some residents work from home. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than a year ago, though the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. Kaufman Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Cedar Creek Reservoir offers more water, and the Dallas Zoo is a longer drive away. Lake Ray Hubbard, another reservoir, is also a longer drive.
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- 18%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 41 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kaufman County had 45,719 jobs in 2025, 5.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kaufman Southeast weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kaufman County
- Forney ISDSchool district2,294FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage953
- MadixFixtures, store display, manufacturing942
- Crandall ISDSchool district875FTE
- Terrell State HospitalPsychiatric hospital845FTE
- Terrell ISDSchool district626FTE
- Mabank ISDSchool district560FTE
- Kaufman ISDSchool district548FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 91 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,712 people in all across the county; Scurry 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
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Scurry’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Kaufman County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Scurry home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Scurry$330,687
- 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.
- Scurry6
Zip codes with a Scurry address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Scurry — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.