White Oak, Texas.
Typical home $245,852 (+1.0% in a year). Longview, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$612 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,422 +1%
- $243,429$245,852 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,944 +25%
- $196,907$245,852 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.
- White Oak$1,290
- 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 White Oak, TX rose 1.0% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in White Oak, Gregg County, Texas
White Oak is a city of 6,225 people in Gregg County. Half its households earn more than $101,027 a year and half less, against $66,550 across Gregg County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Gregg County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. White Oak is a small city in Gregg County, home to a younger-than-typical population for the country. Household incomes here run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people get to work in a fairly short drive.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in manufacturing. The largest workplaces in White Oak include White OAK ISD, Mid South Fabrication and Coating, and Brookshire's. Unemployment across Gregg County is a little higher than it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. Conrad Vernon Field, a stadium, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Martin Creek Lake State Park and Lake O' the Pines, a reservoir, offer water and open space, and Caldwell Zoo is a longer drive for a day out. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
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- 2,096households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Gregg County had 75,602 jobs in 2025, 1.0% 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 96° and lows near 74°. About 1 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Longview #2 weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in White Oak
- White Oak ISDSchool district210FTE
- Mid South Fabrication and CoatingFabricated structural metal manufacturing68
- Brookshire'sSupermarkets and other grocery retailers52
- CintasIndustrial launderers45
- Atlas CopcoEngine repair26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 191 people in all. 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
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in White Oak’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 Gregg County and the Longview, TX metro.
White Oak home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- White Oak$245,852
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 White Oak 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.
- White Oak34.55%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- White Oak34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- White Oak7
Zip codes with a White Oak address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls White Oak — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.