Strawn, Texas.
Typical home $175,629 (+3.8% in a year). Mineral Wells, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$210 (+30%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $6,475 +4%
- $169,154$175,629 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.
- Strawn$922
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Strawn, TX rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strawn, Palo Pinto County, Texas
Strawn is a city of 540 people in Palo Pinto County. Half its households earn more than $48,350 a year and half less, against $67,674 across Palo Pinto County. Unemployment in Palo Pinto County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Palo Pinto 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strawn is a very small town in Palo Pinto County, with a population that makes everyone's face familiar. Household incomes run well below the county's, and the typical home is priced modestly. Very few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild but can turn cold, with January nights that dip below freezing, and summers are hot, with July afternoons that run well above what most of the country sees.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, manufacturing and shops. Across Palo Pinto County, some of the largest workplaces are Traton, which assembles heavy trucks, Mineral Wells ISD, and Walmart. The county had more jobs last year than the year before, and unemployment there is a little higher than it was a year ago. The typical commute is a moderate one, a bit longer than a short hop across town.
Things to do. Palo Pinto Mountains State Park is a protected area a short drive away, and the nearest place for a day outdoors. Possum Kingdom Lake, a reservoir, and Possum Kingdom State Park, a protected area beside it, are both a longer drive away and suit a full day of water and open country. Lake Leon, another reservoir, is also a longer drive.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
What people in Palo Pinto County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Palo Pinto County had 8,545 jobs in 2025, 2.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lake Palo Pinto weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Palo Pinto County
- TratonTrucks, heavy, assembling on chassis of own manufacture1,089
- Mineral Wells ISDSchool district452FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters353
- Palo Pinto General HospitalGeneral hospital294FTE
- CANTEX INC.-Specialty FacilityPvc pipe manufacturing175
- CANTEX INC.-Injection MoldingPvc pipe manufacturing171
- The Gunter HotelTourist lodges113
- American Medical Response101
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,100 people in all across the county; Strawn 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Strawn’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 Palo Pinto County and the Mineral Wells, TX metro.
Strawn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strawn$175,629
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Strawn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strawn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Strawn
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76470 | Ranger | 3,218 | — | $104,806 |
| 76475 | Strawn | 997 | — | $312,507 |