Crosbyton, Texas.
Typical home $72,981 (+5.6% in a year). Lubbock, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$76 (+25%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,891 +6%
- $69,090$72,981 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,849 -18%
- $88,830$72,981 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.
- Crosbyton$383
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Crosbyton, TX rose 5.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Crosbyton, Crosby County, Texas
Crosbyton is a city of 1,492 people in Crosby County. Half its households earn more than $38,684 a year and half less, against $52,188 across Crosby County; 27% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Crosby County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 4.8% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Crosbyton is a small city in Crosby County, Texas, where people tend to be younger than in many towns this size. Incomes run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than is typical, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in the building trades, shops and a range of other services. Across Crosby County, the largest workplaces are the school districts of Ralls, Lorenzo and Crosbyton, and the county has lost jobs over the past year. A typical commute is short, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum, in or beside town, is the best known stop and a good place to start. Farther out, a longer drive takes you to the Salt Fork Brazos River and Running Water Draw, both rivers in the surrounding country. Winters are cold and summers hot, with modest rain and melted snow through the year, so spring and fall may suit time outdoors best.
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- 638households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crosby County had 1,060 jobs in 2025, 4.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 26°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 68°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Crosbyton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Crosby County
- Ralls ISDSchool district84FTE
- Lorenzo ISDSchool district72FTE
- Crosbyton CisdSchool district63FTE
- South Plains Implement, LTD - LorenzoFarm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 30 people in all across the county; Crosbyton has one of its own. School districts come 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- 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 Crosbyton’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 Crosby County and the Lubbock, TX metro.
Crosbyton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Crosbyton$72,981
- 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.
- Crosbyton7
Zip codes with a Crosbyton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Crosbyton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.