Timpson, Texas.
Typical home $252,495 (-0.6% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$540 (+69%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,413 -1%
- $253,908$252,495 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,005 -8%
- $274,500$252,495 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.
- Timpson$1,325
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Timpson, TX fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Timpson, Shelby County, Texas
Timpson is a city of 989 people in Shelby County. Unemployment in Shelby County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shelby County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Timpson is a very small city in Shelby County, in the piney woods of East Texas. Homes here are priced below what many older homeowners elsewhere in the country would expect, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in much of the country. Winters are mild and short, with almost no snow, while summers turn hot, and rain and melted snow fall in generous amounts through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and farming, forestry and mining also employing many. Across Shelby County, the largest workplaces include Tyson Farms, a poultry processor, along with the Center school district and Walmart. Unemployment in the county is no lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has grown a little. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Martin Creek Lake State Park is a park a longer drive away, and Jericho Creek is a river, also a longer drive away. History is on offer at the Old Stone Fort Museum, another longer drive. For a quieter stroll among plantings, Mast Arboretum is a botanical garden, likewise a longer drive from town.
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- 482households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Shelby County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shelby County had 8,789 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 36°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 71°. About 1 inches of snow and 56 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Center weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shelby County
- Tyson FarmsPoultry processing1,486
- Center ISDSchool district411FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters260
- Smith Sawmill Service BIDD US.IncPlumbers' handtools, nonpowered, manufacturing150
- Shelbyville ISDSchool district126FTE
- Timpson ISDSchool district125FTE
- Joaquin ISDSchool district117FTE
- Focused Care at CenterContinuing care retirement communities88
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,431 people in all across the county; Timpson 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
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HurricanesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Timpson’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 Shelby County.
Timpson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Timpson$252,495
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 13 Timpson 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.
- Timpson7.94%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Timpson24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Timpson6
Zip codes with a Timpson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Timpson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.