The median home value in Childress, TX is $136,567 as of 2026-06-30, up 21.17% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$136,567
Year-over-Year
+21.17%
Population
5,783
Childress ranks #332 of 346 Texas cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 49.7% below the state's city median of $271,742. It sits in Childress County, where the county-wide median is $135,919.
Childress police recorded a violent crime rate of 156 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 519 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
The median home value in Childress is $136,567. That's up 21.17% from a year earlier. That is about 49.7% below the typical county in Texas.
Homes in Childress are more expensive than Childress County as a whole, where the median is $135,919 — a difference of about 0.5%.
Childress police reported 156 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,783. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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