Van Horn, Texas.
Typical home $162,287 (+14.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$307 (+56%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $21,085 +15%
- $141,202$162,287 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.
- Van Horn$852
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Van Horn, TX rose 14.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Van Horn, Culberson County, Texas
Van Horn is a town of 1,941 people in Culberson County. Unemployment in Culberson County was 4.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Van Horn is a small town in far West Texas, the seat of Culberson County, and a place where people tend to know one another. Homes here are modestly priced, and a four-year degree is less common among adults than in many parts of the country. Winters are mild and cool rather than harsh, with only a little snow, summers turn hot, and the air is dry, with very little rain or melted snow through the year.
Work. Work in the area draws on a mix of space-vehicle manufacturing, public services and everyday retail. Across Culberson County, the largest workplaces include Blue Origin Texas, the Culberson County-Allamoore school district and Culberson Hospital. The county has added jobs over the past year, and very few people here work from home, since most jobs are done in person.
Things to do. Day-to-day life centers on the town itself and the open country around it. With no nearby places to point to from the list, there is little more to say about outings from here than that the surrounding desert landscape is wide and quiet.
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- 20%of adults have a degree
- 2%work from home
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 30°; warmest in June, with highs near 94° and lows near 66°. About 3 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Van Horn weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Culberson County
- Blue Origin TexasSpace vehicles, complete, manufacturing587
- Culberson County-allamoore ISDSchool district91FTE
- Culberson HospitalCritical access hospital56FTE
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 609 people in all across the county; Van Horn has two of its own. 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
- DroughtVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Van Horn’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 Culberson County.
Van Horn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Van Horn$162,287
- 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.
- Van Horn18
Zip codes with a Van Horn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Van Horn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.