Fritch, Texas.
Typical home $144,167 (+6.4% in a year). Borger, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$391 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,620 +6%
- $135,547$144,167 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $24,013 +20%
- $120,155$144,167 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.
- Fritch$757
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Fritch, TX rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Fritch, Hutchinson County, Texas
Fritch is a city of 1,859 people in Hutchinson County. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Hutchinson County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Fritch is a small city where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes are valued at a modest level. Few residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in many places. Winters are cold, with January highs and lows that sit around and below freezing at night, while summers turn hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow together amount to a fairly dry year.
Work. People in Fritch work mostly in manufacturing, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in other services, with some in media and telecoms. Across Hutchinson County, the largest workplaces include Borger ISD, Frank Phillips College and the Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Borger Plant. The county has added a few more jobs than it had the year before, and unemployment is close to where it stood a year earlier. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. Lake Meredith, a reservoir, and Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, a protected area around it, are both a short drive away. Also a short drive off is Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, an archaeological site. A longer drive leads to the Carson County Square House Museum.
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- 765households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hutchinson County had 7,708 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 52° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 66°. About 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sanford Dam weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hutchinson County
- Borger ISDSchool district418FTE
- Frank Phillips CollegeTwo-year college391
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters297
- D.E. Rice ConstructionConstruction management, water and sewage treatment plant250
- Northwest Insulation CompanyBoiler and pipe insulation installation243
- Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Borger PlantOrgano-inorganic compound manufacturing202
- Golden Plains Community HospitalCritical access hospital198FTE
- Brock ServicesMulti craft140
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,865 people in all across the county; Fritch has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- DroughtVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fritch’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 Hutchinson County and the Borger, TX metro.
Fritch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fritch$144,167
- 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.
- Fritch16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fritch5
Zip codes with a Fritch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fritch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.