Chireno, Texas.
Typical home $205,631 (+3.0% in a year). Nacogdoches, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$10 (+1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Up $5,925 +3%
- $199,706$205,631 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.
- Chireno$1,079
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Chireno, TX rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Chireno, Nacogdoches County, Texas
Chireno is a city of 370 people in Nacogdoches County. Half its households earn more than $71,250 a year and half less, against $53,555 across Nacogdoches County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Nacogdoches County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Nacogdoches County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Chireno is a very small East Texas town, and most people here know one another. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect for a rural community. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, summers get hot, and the year is a wet one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Across Nacogdoches County, the largest workplaces include Stephen F Austin State University, Nacogdoches ISD and the Nacogdoches Medical Center. The county has lost a very slight share of its jobs over the past year, and unemployment there is about where it was a year ago. Many residents commute to work, and a modest number work from home.
Things to do. Attoyac Bayou is a river a short drive away, a quiet place for time by the water. Farther afield, Angelina National Forest is a protected area for walking and wildlife, and the Old Stone Fort Museum is one of the places in the area for learning about local history. Both are a longer drive away.
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- 21%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in Nacogdoches County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Nacogdoches County had 22,515 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 70°. About 56 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Augustine weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Nacogdoches County
- Pilgrims Nacogdoches ComplexChickens, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked1,561
- Stephen F Austin State UniversityUniversity or college1,537
- Nacogdoches ISDSchool district1,043FTE
- EatonElectrical transformer manufacturing409
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters374
- Nacogdoches Medical CenterGeneral hospital341FTE
- Nacogdoches Memorial HospGeneral hospital331FTE
- TFP NutritionComplete feed, livestock, manufacturing241
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 49 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,787 people in all across the county; Chireno has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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
- Strong windVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Chireno’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 Nacogdoches County and the Nacogdoches, TX metro.
Chireno home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Chireno$205,631
- 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.
Zip codes with a Chireno address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Chireno — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.