Morton, Texas.
Typical home $48,162 (+0.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$12 (+5%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $150 +0%
- $48,012$48,162 since Sep 2025
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.
- Morton$253
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Morton, TX rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Morton, Cochran County, Texas
Morton is a city of 1,690 people in Cochran County. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Cochran County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 7.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Cochran County work in farming, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Morton is a small farming city on the high plains of West Texas, the seat of Cochran County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are low compared with much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with light snowfall, and summers are hot, with fairly little rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Others work in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in the building trades. Across Cochran County, the largest workplaces include Morton ISD, Whiteface Cisd Schools and Cochran Memorial Hospital. Jobs across the county fell in the most recent year, and the commute is a fairly short drive for most people.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area a longer drive away, and it is the one nearby place worth knowing about. Otherwise, days here tend to follow the rhythm of the farming year and the town's schools.
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- 610households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 27%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What people in Cochran County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cochran County had 685 jobs in 2025, 7.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 24°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 65°. About 6 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Morton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cochran County
- Morton ISDSchool district69FTE
- Whiteface CisdSchool district61FTE
- Cochran Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital39FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- HailVery high
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Morton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Cochran County.
Morton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Morton$48,162
- 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 Morton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Morton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.