Skellytown, Texas.
Typical home $68,061 (-16.1% in a year). Borger, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$19 (+6%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $13,107 -16%
- $81,168$68,061 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.
- Skellytown$357
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Skellytown, TX fell 16.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Skellytown, Hutchinson County, Texas
Skellytown is a town of 394 people in Hutchinson County. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% 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 people in Hutchinson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Skellytown is a very small town in Hutchinson County, in the Texas Panhandle. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit well below what many older homeowners will be used to seeing in larger cities. Winters are cold and bring some snow, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fairly dry year overall.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many people. Across Hutchinson County, some of the largest workplaces are Borger ISD, Frank Phillips College and the Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Borger Plant. Few people work from home, and a typical trip to work takes a moderate amount of time.
Things to do. Lake Meredith is a reservoir, and the Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is a protected area around it; both are a longer drive away. Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, an archaeological site, is also a longer drive away. Together they make for a day out in the open country of the Panhandle.
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- 172households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Hutchinson County 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 50° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 67°. About 16 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pampa #2 weather station, 11 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; Skellytown has none 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
- DroughtVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Skellytown’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 Hutchinson County and the Borger, TX metro.
Skellytown home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Skellytown$68,061
- 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 Skellytown address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Skellytown — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.