Ballinger, Texas.
Typical home $138,177 (+2.3% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$265 (+58%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,136 +2%
- $135,040$138,177 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $10,420 -7%
- $148,596$138,177 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.
- Ballinger$725
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ballinger, TX rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ballinger, Runnels County, Texas
Ballinger is a city of 3,619 people in Runnels County. Half its households earn more than $58,870 a year and half less, against $62,632 across Runnels County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in Runnels County was 3.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ballinger is a small city and the seat of Runnels County, and most homes here are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and typical home values are modest. Winters are mild and brief, with little snow, and summers are hot, with the warmest weather in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, retail and government also employing a good number. Among the largest workplaces in Ballinger are Ballinger ISD, Metal Solutions - Ballinger and Walmart. Commutes are short, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Concho River, a river, lies a longer drive away. So do Kickapoo Creek, another waterway, and O.H. Ivie Lake, a lake for time on the water. Each makes for a day out rather than a quick errand.
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- 1,455households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 18 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Runnels County had 3,090 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 59° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 72°. About 1 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ballinger Northwest weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ballinger
- SIMOS Insourcing SolutionsStaffing1,023
- Metal Solutions - BallingerPanels, prefabricated metal building, manufacturing238
- Ballinger ISDSchool district165FTE
- Buddy's Plant PlusMixing purchased fertilizer materials88
- WalmartDiscount department stores74
- Ballinger I EnterprisesNursing homes67
- Brookshire Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery retailers37
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,527 people in all. School districts come 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
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ballinger’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 Runnels County.
Ballinger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ballinger$138,177
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 13 Ballinger listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Ballinger7.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ballinger39
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ballinger7
Zip codes with a Ballinger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ballinger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.