Valley View, Texas.
Typical home $295,476 (+0.4% in a year). Gainesville, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$838 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,174 +0%
- $294,303$295,476 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,103 +24%
- $238,374$295,476 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.
- Valley View$1,551
- 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 Valley View, TX rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Valley View, Cooke County, Texas
Valley View is a city of 737 people in Cooke County. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Cooke County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cooke 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Valley View is a very small city in Cooke County, and most of its homes are lived in by their owners. A typical home here is worth a good deal more than the county's median household income might suggest, and a modest share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild but cool, with January the coldest month, and summers turn hot, with August the warmest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Cooke County, some of the largest workplaces are Safran Seats, USA, which makes aircraft assemblies and parts, North Central Texas College, and Gainesville ISD. Commutes are of middling length, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The closest outing is Frank Buck Zoo, a zoo a short drive away. Farther afield, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Grassland is a protected area with open country to explore, and Universal Kids Resort is an amusement park, both a longer drive away.
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- 311households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 19%work from home
What people in Cooke County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cooke County had 16,662 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 74°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pilot Point Isl Du Boi weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cooke County
- Select Water SolutionsOil and gas field services on a contract basis2,922
- Safran Seats, USAAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing1,127
- North Central Texas CollegeTwo-year college770
- Endurance Lift SolutionsOil and gas field services on a contract basis570
- Peak RentalsOil and gas field services on a contract basis526
- Gainesville ISDSchool district410FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters398
- Primoris Distribution ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction394
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,096 people in all across the county; Valley View has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- TornadoesVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Valley View’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Cooke County and the Gainesville, TX metro.
Valley View home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Valley View$295,476
- 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.
- Valley View7
Zip codes with a Valley View address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valley View — 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.