Stamford, Texas.
Typical home $109,825 (+5.3% in a year). Abilene, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$155 (+37%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,536 +5%
- $104,289$109,825 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,976 -9%
- $120,801$109,825 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.
- Stamford$576
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Stamford, TX rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stamford, Jones County, Texas
Stamford is a city of 2,907 people in Jones County. Half its households earn more than $46,940 a year and half less, against $59,464 across Jones County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Jones County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 7.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jones County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stamford is a small Texas city where most people have a high school education rather than a four-year degree, and household incomes sit below the county's. Homes here cost far less than in much of the country, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and short, with only a dusting of snow, and summers run hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, shops, and transport, warehousing and utilities. Almost no one works from home. Across Jones County, the largest workplaces include Coca-cola Southwest Beverages, McCarthy Building Companies and Stamford ISD, and the county has gained jobs over the past year while unemployment has stayed about where it was.
Things to do. Lake Stamford sits in or beside town and is the nearest place for time on the water. A longer drive away are the rivers Paint Creek and Elm Creek, and the Panhandle Plains Wildlife Trail, a protected area for anyone who enjoys watching wildlife.
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- 1,201households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Jones County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jones County had 3,269 jobs in 2025, 7.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 3 inches of snow and 27 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Haskell weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jones County
- Coca-cola Southwest BeveragesSoft drink manufacturing274
- McCarthy Building CompaniesCommercial building construction general contractors241
- Management & Training CorporationJails, privately operated215
- Hawley ISDSchool district160FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters154
- Stamford ISDSchool district138FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter137
- Anson ISDSchool district132FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,207 people in all across the county; Stamford has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stamford’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 Jones County and the Abilene, TX metro.
Stamford home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stamford$109,825
- 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.
- Stamford12
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Stamford address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stamford — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.