Throckmorton, Texas.
Typical home $123,930 (-13.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $289 (-31%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $19,599 -14%
- $143,529$123,930 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.
- Throckmorton$650
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Throckmorton, TX fell 13.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Throckmorton, Throckmorton County, Texas
Throckmorton is a town of 727 people in Throckmorton County. Unemployment in Throckmorton County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 6.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then other services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Throckmorton is a very small town in north-central Texas, the kind of place where residents tend to know one another. Homes here cost well below what is typical across much of the country, and household incomes across Throckmorton County sit below the state's. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults than in most places, and a small share of people work from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, the building trades and various services. Among the largest workplaces across Throckmorton County are Throckmorton County Hospital, Throckmorton Collegiate ISD and Woodson ISD. Jobs across the county have grown scarcer over the past year, and unemployment there has eased a little since a year earlier.
Things to do. The best known place nearby is Fort Belknap, a historic fort a longer drive away. Lake Stamford, also a longer drive away, offers a lake for time on the water. Paint Creek is a river a longer drive away too, suited to a quiet day outdoors. Winters are cool and summers hot, with a moderate amount of rain and melted snow through the year.
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- 327households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Throckmorton County had 395 jobs in 2025, 6.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 30°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 72°. About 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Throckmorton 10N weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Throckmorton County
- Throckmorton County HospitalCritical access hospital54FTE
- Throckmorton Collegiate ISDSchool district34FTE
- Woodson ISDSchool district29FTE
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
- HailVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Throckmorton’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 Throckmorton County.
Throckmorton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Throckmorton$123,930
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Throckmorton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Throckmorton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.