Whitewright, Texas.
Typical home $350,719 (-3.4% in a year). Sherman-Denison, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$924 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $12,253 -3%
- $362,971$350,719 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $26,008 +8%
- $324,710$350,719 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.
- Whitewright$1,841
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 45 years.
Typical home values in Whitewright, TX fell 3.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitewright, Grayson County, Texas
Whitewright is a town of 1,725 people in Grayson County. Half its households earn more than $57,692 a year and half less, against $72,182 across Grayson County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Grayson County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitewright is a small town in Grayson County, Texas, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a good number of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values sit at a level that may surprise people who think of a small town as a cheap one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, banks, insurance and property, and manufacturing. Commutes are long, and few people work from home, so many travel some distance to their jobs. Across Grayson County, some of the largest workplaces are Texoma Medical Center, Tyson Fresh Meats and Sherman ISD.
Things to do. Lake Texoma, a large reservoir, is a longer drive away and is the best known of the nearby places. Also a longer drive away are Bonham State Park, a protected area, and the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site, a museum. Winters are mild and rarely snowy, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain, so outings suit most seasons.
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- 724households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Grayson County had 52,998 jobs in 2025, 1.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bonham 3NNE weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Grayson County
- Texoma Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,899FTE
- Tyson Fresh MeatsMeat processed from carcasses1,845
- Sherman ISDSchool district1,199FTE
- Ruiz Foods ProductMexican foods, frozen, manufacturing980
- Denison ISDSchool district631FTE
- Texas InstrumentsSemiconductor devices manufacturing608
- Grayson CollegeUniversity or college607
- WalmartRefrigerated warehousing and storage442
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 113 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 15,802 people in all across the county; Whitewright has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whitewright’s census tracts, 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 Grayson County and the Sherman-Denison, TX metro.
Whitewright home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitewright$350,719
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Whitewright 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.
- Whitewright26.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Whitewright56
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Whitewright13
Zip codes with a Whitewright address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitewright — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.