Wellington, Texas.
Typical home $79,946 (-2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$60 (+17%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,329 -3%
- $82,275$79,946 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $29,650 -27%
- $109,595$79,946 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.
- Wellington$420
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Wellington, TX fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellington, Collingsworth County, Texas
Wellington is a city of 1,896 people in Collingsworth County. Half its households earn more than $57,050 a year and half less, against $61,280 across Collingsworth County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 73% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 27% are rented. Unemployment in Collingsworth County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 3.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellington is a small city and the seat of Collingsworth County, in the Texas Panhandle. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are low. Household incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is true everywhere. The typical resident is middle-aged, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller group of adults than in most places. Winters are cold, summers are very hot, snow is light, and the rainfall is modest.
Work. Across Collingsworth County, the biggest workplaces are Wellington ISD, Wellington Care Center and Collingsworth General Hospital. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in transport, warehouses and utilities, in professional and business services, and in farming, forestry and mining. Very few work from home. The county has lost some jobs over the past year, and unemployment is about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are all a longer drive away. The Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River is the best known, and the Little Red River and Buck Creek are other rivers in the area. For time on the water, Lake Childress and Baylor Creek Reservoir are the lake and reservoir nearby.
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- 711households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Collingsworth County had 786 jobs in 2025, 3.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 70°. About 4 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wellington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Collingsworth County
- Wellington ISDSchool district106FTE
- Wellington Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities92
- Collingsworth General HospitalCritical access hospital51FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 167 people in all across the county; Wellington has two of its own. 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
- DroughtVery high
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Ice stormsVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Collingsworth County.
Wellington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellington$79,946
- 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.
- Wellington6
Zip codes with a Wellington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.