Sumner, Texas.
Typical home $324,510 (+3.4% in a year). Paris, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$686 (+67%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $10,526 +3%
- $313,985$324,510 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.
- Sumner$1,703
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Sumner, TX rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sumner, Lamar County, Texas
The Census does not count Sumner on its own, so the figures here are Lamar County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,880 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 66% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Lamar County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lamar County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sumner is a small town in Lamar County in northeast Texas. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit in the range that is common for the area. Winters are cold, summers are hot, and a good deal of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in manufacturing, and in the building trades. Unemployment across the county has risen over the past year, and the number of jobs dipped slightly last year. Most people commute a short distance to work, and working from home is much less common than going to a workplace.
Things to do. Caddo National Grassland, a protected area, is a longer drive away and offers wide open land to explore. Bois D'Arc Creek, a river, is a short drive away for a quiet stop by the water. Lake Crook, a reservoir a short drive away, is another place for spending time outdoors near town.
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- 20,019households
- 39.7median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Lamar County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lamar County had 22,227 jobs in 2025, 0.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°. About 49 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paris weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lamar County
- The Campbell's Company - ParisSoups canning606
- Paris ISDSchool district582FTE
- Paris Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital501FTE
- North Lamar ISDSchool district418FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters418
- PJ Trailers SumnerTruck trailer manufacturing397
- Paris Junior CollegeTwo-year college310
- Norstar TrailersFlatbed trailers, commercial, manufacturing271
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 39 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,143 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lamar County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Lamar County and the Paris, TX metro.
Sumner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sumner$324,510
- 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.
- Sumner10
Zip codes with a Sumner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sumner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.