Erick, Oklahoma.
Typical home $91,757 (+10.5% in a year). Elk City, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$240 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,711 +10%
- $83,046$91,757 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,607 +39%
- $66,149$91,757 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.
- Erick$482
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Erick, OK rose 10.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Erick, Beckham County, Oklahoma
Erick is a city of 1,000 people in Beckham County. Unemployment in Beckham County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 3.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Erick is a small city in western Oklahoma, in Beckham County, and its residents are younger on the whole than in many American towns. Homes cost less than in much of the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with only a little snow and a modest amount of rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities. Across Beckham County, some of the largest workplaces are Walmart, Great Plains Regional Medical Center and Elk City Schools. The trip to work is short, and few people work from home. Across Beckham County, the number of jobs fell last year, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year ago.
Things to do. In or beside town, Erick has the Roger Miller Museum and the First National Bank, which is also a museum. A short drive away is Sweetwater Creek, a river good for time outdoors. A longer drive brings you to Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, a protected area, or to Sayre City Park.
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- 306households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 16 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Beckham County had 9,616 jobs in 2025, 3.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 68°. About 7 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Erick weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Beckham County
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters282
- Great Plains Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital267FTE
- ELK City SchoolsSchool district260FTE
- Bar-S Foods CoPrivate warehousing and refrigerated storage139
- Super HeatersTrucking, specialized freight, local97
- Sayre SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Merritt SchoolsSchool district87FTE
- Great Plains AnalyticalPipeline inspection services67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 805 people in all across the county; Erick has one 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Erick’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 Beckham County and the Elk City, OK metro.
Erick home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Erick$91,757
- Oklahoma$220,801
- 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.
- Erick13
Zip codes with a Erick address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Erick — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.