Sunset, Texas.
Typical home $457,239 (-0.8% in a year). Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,395 (+139%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,701 -1%
- $460,940$457,239 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $89,395 +24%
- $367,844$457,239 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.
- Sunset$2,400
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Sunset, TX fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sunset, Montague County, Texas
The Census does not count Sunset on its own, so the figures here are Montague County's. Half the county's households earn more than $64,545 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 80% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Montague County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Montague 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sunset is a small town in Montague County, in north Texas. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and many residents are older than the national middle. Winters are cold and summers are very hot, with a fair amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, shops, manufacturing, and the building trades. Joblessness has eased over the past year, though the county has seen a slight drop in jobs. Few people work from home, and a smaller share of adults hold a degree than in most of the country.
Things to do. Lake Amon G. Carter is a lake a short drive away, a good option for a day outdoors. For a longer trip, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland is a protected area, and Fort Richardson is a fort, both a longer drive away.
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- 8,538households
- 44.2median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Montague County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Montague County had 4,821 jobs in 2025, 2.1% fewer 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 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Alvord North weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Montague County
- Bowie ISDSchool district238FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters210
- Nocona ISDSchool district148FTE
- WL Plastics - BowieFittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing93
- Nocona General HospitalGeneral hospital89FTE
- Hall ResourcesWater well drilling, digging, boring or sinking65
- Coppell Construction CompanyBridge construction60
- Saint JO ISDSchool district56FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 541 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Montague 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 Montague County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Sunset home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sunset$457,239
- 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.
- Sunset16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Sunset address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sunset — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.