Wellton, Arizona.
Typical home $239,212 (-1.7% in a year). Yuma, AZ metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$707 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,035 -2%
- $243,248$239,212 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $42,188 +21%
- $197,025$239,212 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.
- Wellton$1,256
- Arizona$2,187
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Wellton, AZ fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wellton, Yuma County, Arizona
Wellton is a town of 2,375 people in Yuma County. Half its households earn more than $58,470 a year and half less, against $62,876 across Yuma County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Yuma County was 19.0% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Yuma County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wellton is a small town in Yuma County where the population is older than in most places, and nearly all homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and a four-year degree is less common among adults here than in many parts of the country. Winters are mild and the summers are very hot, with very little rain across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in farming, forestry and mining. Across Yuma County, the largest workplaces include Yuma Regional Medical Center, Tanimura & Antle, and the Yuma Elementary District. Unemployment across the county is high, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Muggins Mountain Wilderness, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Yuma Territorial Prison, a museum, and to Martinez Lake, a lake popular for time on the water.
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- 1,293households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
What people in Yuma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yuma County had 71,265 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 67° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 106° and lows near 80°. About 4 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yuma Ene weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yuma County
- Yuma Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,259FTE
- Tanimura & AntleVegetable and potato farming, vegetable dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production1,295
- Yuma Elementary District (4499)School district1,291FTE
- Arizona Western CollegeTwo-year college1,058
- Yuma Union High School District (4507)School district1,039FTE
- ASPC-YumaPrisons1,021
- D'Arrigo Bros. Co., of California-YumaRomaine lettuce farming, field and seed production756
- Crane Elementary District (4501)School district701FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 173 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,925 people in all across the county; Wellton has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of WelltonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wellton’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 Yuma County and the Yuma, AZ metro.
Wellton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wellton$239,212
- Arizona$416,733
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Wellton listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Wellton15.68%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wellton50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wellton9
Zip codes with a Wellton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wellton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.