Windthorst, Texas.
Typical home $292,812 (+6.2% in a year). Wichita Falls, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$640 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,046 +6%
- $275,766$292,812 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $7,258 -2%
- $300,070$292,812 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.
- Windthorst$1,537
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Windthorst, TX rose 6.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Windthorst, Archer County, Texas
Windthorst is a town of 342 people in Archer County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Archer County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Archer County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Windthorst is a very small town in Archer County, Texas, where almost everyone lives in a home they own. Homes here are worth more than many people would guess for a place this size, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and short, with a trace of snow, and summers are hot, with August afternoons climbing close to the century mark.
Work. People who live here work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, forestry and mining, in shops, and in government. Across Archer County, some of the largest workplaces are Atmos Energy, Kell West Regional Hospital and Windthorst ISD. The typical commute is a fairly short drive, and almost no one works from home. Unemployment across the county is a touch lower than a year ago, and the county has added a few more jobs.
Things to do. The closest water is Lake Arrowhead, a reservoir a short drive away, and Lake Arrowhead State Park sits on its shore as a longer drive. For something indoors, the Wichita Falls Railroad Museum is a longer drive away. Fort Richardson, an old frontier fort, is also a longer drive.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 24 mintypical commute
- 1%work from home
What people in Archer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Archer County had 1,918 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 73°. About 3 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Archer City 2W weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Archer County
- Atmos EnergyNatural gas distribution270
- Kell West Regional HospitalGeneral hospital196FTE
- Holliday ISDSchool district153FTE
- Archer City ISDSchool district89FTE
- Windthorst ISDSchool district75FTE
- MCG Drilling CompanyOil and gas well drilling services on a contract basis37
- Wfri HotelHotels25
- Bowles Construction CompanyDistribution line, sewer and water, construction23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 355 people in all across the county; Windthorst has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Windthorst’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Archer County and the Wichita Falls, TX metro.
Windthorst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Windthorst$292,812
- 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 Windthorst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Windthorst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.