Stanton, Texas.
Typical home $236,994 (+2.3% in a year). Midland, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$352 (+39%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,289 +2%
- $231,705$236,994 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $14,765 -6%
- $251,759$236,994 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.
- Stanton$1,244
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Stanton, TX rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stanton, Martin County, Texas
Stanton is a city of 2,657 people in Martin County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Martin County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 16.5% more 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stanton is a small West Texas city where most households own the homes they live in, and the population is younger than in many small towns. Few residents hold a four-year degree, and fewer live below the poverty line than you might expect for a town this size. Winters are mild and brief, with only a dusting of snow, while summers run hot, and rain and melted snow add up to very little over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, forestry and mining close behind, along with transport, warehouses and utilities, and restaurants and hotels. Across Martin County, the largest workplaces include Martin County Hospital, Stanton ISD and Oncor Electric Delivery. Unemployment across the county has eased compared with a year earlier, the number of jobs has grown, and the drive to work is short.
Things to do. Closest options for a day out are all a longer drive away. The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum tells the story of the region's oil industry, and Hangar 25 Air Museum is an aviation museum. Big Spring State Park is a protected area for time outdoors.
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- 939households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 0%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Martin County had 2,728 jobs in 2025, 16.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Midland Ene weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Martin County
- Permian resources Delaware BasinPetroleum, crude, production761
- ORCM Midland BasinPetroleum, crude, production287
- Martin County HospitalCritical access hospital205FTE
- Stanton ISDSchool district170FTE
- Oncor Electric DeliveryDistribution of electric power114
- Grady ISDSchool district42FTE
- Sands CisdSchool district41FTE
- Silver Spur Energy ServicesExcavating, earthmoving or land clearing, mining32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,290 people in all across the county; Stanton has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stanton’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 Martin County and the Midland, TX metro.
Stanton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stanton$236,994
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Stanton 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Stanton18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Stanton6
Zip codes with a Stanton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stanton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.