A typical Wickett home is worth roughly $85,000
No new homes were permitted in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Wickett?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 1.5 years of income
Less than across Texas (3.8 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Wickett home, with $123K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260 a month here, $720 more than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Wickett’s typical property tax (1.40% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
93% of Wickett households own their home
Half of Wickett’s homes were built before 1973.
Texas: 63% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,260
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Ward County, TX): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
No new homes permitted in 2025
No permits for new homes were issued in Wickett in 2025. The last year with any was 2024 (8 new homes).
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Wickett's population fell by 76 and no new homes were permitted. Across Texas: 2.6 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 2 | 2 | 0 | $605,000 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2024 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $2.4 million |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 0 | $2.6 million |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1 million |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $161,000 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.