Seagraves, Texas.
Typical home $130,301 (-6.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$62 (+10%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $8,536 -6%
- $138,837$130,301 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.
- Seagraves$684
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Seagraves, TX fell 6.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Seagraves, Gaines County, Texas
Seagraves is a city of 2,153 people in Gaines County. Unemployment in Gaines County was 3.3% in August 2026, and the county had 7.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Gaines County work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Seagraves is a small city in Gaines County, in the flat farm country of West Texas. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and a smaller share of adults hold a four-year degree than is usual nationally. Winters are cold, with only a little snow, and summers get hot, with fairly little rain or melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in the building trades, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Gaines County, some of the largest workplaces are Seminole ISD, Memorial Hospital-Seminole and Walmart. Unemployment in the county has been a little lower than a year earlier, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Commutes are short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Life in Seagraves centers on the town itself, with short drives to work and errands and plenty of open country around it. Winters are cold enough for a coat, and the mild bit of snow rarely lasts, so the cooler months are an easy time to be outdoors.
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- 975households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 13 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Gaines County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gaines County had 7,244 jobs in 2025, 7.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 65°. About 5 inches of snow and 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Denver City weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gaines County
- Seminole ISDSchool district479FTE
- Memorial Hospital-seminoleCritical access hospital288FTE
- WalmartDiscount department stores120
- Fehrs Metal BuildingAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building110
- JNL Steel ComponentsSheet metal work manufacturing97
- Seagraves ISDSchool district95FTE
- FIMBarge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing72
- Golden Peanut Company64
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 850 people in all across the county; Seagraves 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
- HailVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Seagraves’ 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 Gaines County.
Seagraves home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Seagraves$130,301
- 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.
- Seagraves15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Seagraves address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Seagraves — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.