Sunray, Texas.
Typical home $142,572 (+7.1% in a year). Dumas, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$305 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $9,409 +7%
- $133,163$142,572 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $9,213 +7%
- $133,358$142,572 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.
- Sunray$748
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 52 years.
Typical home values in Sunray, TX rose 7.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunray, Sherman County, Texas
Sunray is a city of 1,707 people in Sherman County. Unemployment in Sherman County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunray is a small city on the Texas Panhandle plains, in Sherman County. Homes here cost less than in much of the country, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than is common across the nation. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than the national average, and most people get to work in a short drive.
Work. Residents work mainly in farming, forestry and mining, in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Sherman County, some of the largest workplaces are Stratford ISD, Lone Star Family Farms and Cactus Feeders. Unemployment in the county is low and close to where it stood a year ago, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. The best-known place nearby is Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, a protected area a longer drive away. Lake Meredith itself, a reservoir in the same direction, is also a longer drive away. Winters are cold, with some snow, and summers are hot, so the lake is a trip best planned for the milder parts of the year.
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- 821households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sherman County had 1,090 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 49° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 65°. About 9 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dumas weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sherman County
- Stratford ISDSchool district89FTE
- Lone Star Family FarmsCorn farming, field and seed production68
- Cactus FeedersBeef cattle feedlots65
- Stratford Hospital DistrictNursing homes62
- FedEx FreightLess than truckload general freight trucking34
- Texhoma ISDSchool district28FTE
- Hydro Resources - Mid-Continent, Inc. Las CrucesWater well drilling, digging, boring or sinking24
- SEABOARD FOODS LP Region 10 Grow/Finish - 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304Hog and pig farming20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 273 people in all across the county; Sunray 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
- DroughtVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- HailRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Sunray’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 Sherman County and the Dumas, TX metro.
Sunray home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunray$142,572
- 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.
- Sunray10
Zip codes with a Sunray address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunray — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.