Wilmer, Texas.
Typical home $219,011 (-2.0% in a year), asking rent $1,794 . Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$621 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,395 -2%
- $223,406$219,011 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $33,781 +18%
- $185,230$219,011 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.
- Wilmer$1,150
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Wilmer, TX fell 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilmer, Dallas County, Texas
Wilmer is a city of 4,974 people in Dallas County. Unemployment in Dallas County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Dallas County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilmer is a small city in Dallas County, with a young population: residents are much younger than in most American communities. Homes here cost less than the typical home across the country, and most adults do not hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and brief, with January the coldest month, while summers are long and hot, peaking in August, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, or in the building trades. Wilmer's largest workplaces lean toward freight and industry, among them Wilmer Terminal, a trucking terminal, National Distribution Centers, a warehousing and logistics operation, and Pacific Rail Services, which loads and unloads at rail terminals. The typical commute is a long one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The sights of Dallas are all a longer drive away. Among the best known are AT&T Stadium, a large stadium, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Dallas Zoo. Together they give a day out in the city a choice of sport, art and animals.
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- 1,815households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 33 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Dallas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Dallas County had 1,829,643 jobs in 2025, 0.2% 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 73°. About 41 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ferris weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wilmer
- T1 G1 Dallas Solar ModuleSolar energy heating equipment manufacturing1,050
- Wilmer TerminalTransportation motor freight transportation trucking except air678
- Nelson Tree ServiceArborist services294
- National Distribution Centers LLC TX54Transportation, warehousing, logistics72
- Pacific Rail ServicesLoading and unloading services at rail terminals60
- Suffolk Construction (DFW2-DC1)Commercial building construction general contractors30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,184 people in all. 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
- HailVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilmer’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 Dallas County and the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro.
Wilmer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilmer$219,011
- 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.
- Wilmer11
Zip codes with a Wilmer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilmer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.