Shamrock, Texas.
Typical home $79,088 (+1.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$12 (+3%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,024 +1%
- $78,064$79,088 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $50,131 -39%
- $129,219$79,088 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.
- Shamrock$415
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Shamrock, TX rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Shamrock, Wheeler County, Texas
Shamrock is a city of 1,789 people in Wheeler County. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Wheeler County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shamrock is a small Texas city in Wheeler County, and most homes there are lived in by their owners. Typical home values are low, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home. Winters are cold, with highs near freezing-and-a-bit-above in January and lows well below it, and some snow each year. Summers are hot, with July the warmest month, and the year brings a modest amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others work in farming, forestry and mining, in restaurants and hotels, or in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces across Wheeler County are Shamrock ISD, Parkview Hospital and Wheeler ISD. Unemployment in the county has edged up slightly over the past year, and the county had somewhat fewer jobs last year than the year before.
Things to do. The Devils Rope Barbed Wire Museum is a museum a longer drive away, and the Roger Miller Museum is another. Fort Elliott, also a longer drive away, is a fort with a place in the area's frontier history. Sweetwater Creek, a river a longer drive away, offers a spot to spend time outdoors.
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- 778households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wheeler County had 1,684 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 68°. About 9 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shamrock #2 weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wheeler County
- Shamrock ISDSchool district81FTE
- Parkview HospitalCritical access hospital76FTE
- Wheeler ISDSchool district76FTE
- Shamrock General HospitalCritical access hospital54FTE
- Fort Elliott CisdSchool district39FTE
- Kelton ISDSchool district28FTE
- Wheeler Land & LivestockBeef cattle feedlots22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 194 people in all across the county; Shamrock has two 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
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Shamrock’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 Wheeler County.
Shamrock home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shamrock$79,088
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Shamrock listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Shamrock13.33%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shamrock20
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Shamrock5
Zip codes with a Shamrock address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shamrock — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.