Pickton, Texas.
Typical home $321,618 (-5.2% in a year). Sulphur Springs, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$370 (+28%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $17,785 -5%
- $339,403$321,618 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.
- Pickton$1,688
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Pickton, TX fell 5.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pickton, Hopkins County, Texas
The Census does not count Pickton on its own, so the figures here are Hopkins County's. Half the county's households earn more than $70,888 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 71% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 29% are rented. Unemployment in Hopkins County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Hopkins County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pickton is a small town in Hopkins County, in the northeast corner of Texas. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and more people own than rent than in many parts of the country. Incomes sit below the county's typical level for a few households, and a fair share of residents live near the poverty line, so the town's pace suits those who value a close-knit community and modest living costs.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and manufacturing and shops are also major sources of jobs. Building trades employ a good number of people too. Jobs in the county grew over the past year, and unemployment remains low, though a little higher than the year before. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people drive a short way to work, while few work from home.
Things to do. Lake Winnsboro is a reservoir a short drive away, a good place for a quiet afternoon by the water. The Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park, a museum a longer drive away, tells the local story. Lake Bob Sandlin State Park, a protected area also a longer drive off, offers open land and water for a day outdoors.
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- 14,002households
- 39.5median age
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Hopkins County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hopkins County had 14,697 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Vernon weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hopkins County
- Sulphur Springs ISDSchool district692FTE
- GSC EnterprisesGeneral-line groceries merchant wholesalers613
- SaputoManufacturing544
- Christus MF - Sulphur SpringsGeneral hospital392FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters389
- ClaytonManufactured home manufacturing300
- D6Film, plastics, packaging, manufacturing231
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services154
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,269 people in all. 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
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Hopkins County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Hopkins County and the Sulphur Springs, TX metro.
Pickton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pickton$321,618
- 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.
- Pickton11
Zip codes with a Pickton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pickton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.