Wildorado, Texas.
Typical home $317,712 (+8.5% in a year). Hereford, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$486 (+41%) since Feb 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $24,894 +9%
- $292,818$317,712 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.
- Wildorado$1,668
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Wildorado, TX rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wildorado, Deaf Smith County, Texas
Wildorado, in Deaf Smith County, had 201 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Deaf Smith County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Deaf Smith County work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wildorado is a very small community in the Texas Panhandle, among the smallest places a reader is likely to look up. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes might suggest, and the countryside around it is open farmland and ranch land.
Work. Across Deaf Smith County, people work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in farming, forestry and mining. Caviness Beef, Hereford ISD and Walmart are among the largest workplaces, and the county has lost a small share of its jobs over the past year. Many residents drive a fair distance to work each day, and unemployment has held steady compared with a year ago.
Things to do. Everything on the list of nearby places is a longer drive away. Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for time outdoors, and Wonderland Park is an amusement park for a family outing. For a quieter day, the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame is a museum devoted to a breed closely tied to this part of Texas.
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- 24 mintypical commute
What people in Deaf Smith County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Deaf Smith County had 8,262 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 51° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 63°. About 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bushland Wsw weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Deaf Smith County
- Caviness BeefBeef produced in slaughtering plants1,350
- Hereford ISDSchool district607FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters256
- Nestle Purina Pet Car (Merrick Pet Care)Animal feeds, prepared, dog and cat, manufacturing225
- Hereford Regional Medical CTRGeneral hospital150FTE
- United SupermarketsSupermarket110
- Azteca MillingCorn flour manufacturing98
- Fortrex - 0824 Caviness Beef Packers - HerefordJanitorial services74
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,561 people in all across the county; Wildorado has none 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
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wildorado’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 Deaf Smith County and the Hereford, TX metro.
Wildorado home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wildorado$317,712
- 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.
Zip codes with a Wildorado address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wildorado — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.