Del Rio, Texas.
Typical home $204,971 (-4.3% in a year), asking rent $1,346 (+2.6%). Del Rio, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$478 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,237 -4%
- $214,209$204,971 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $14,549 +8%
- $190,422$204,971 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.
- Del Rio$1,076
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Del Rio, TX fell 4.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Del Rio, TX rose 2.6% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Del Rio runs $194/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $390 in Jan 2025.
That is $1,540 a month against $1,346 rent: a $1,076 mortgage payment, plus $244 property tax and $219 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Del Rio
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$1,540
- Renting$1,346
- Mortgage only$1,076
Property tax · $244/mo 1.43% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Val Verde County, TX
Insurance & upkeep · $219/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas
Del Rio is a city of 34,673 people in Val Verde County. Half its households earn more than $66,158 a year and half less, against $66,100 across Val Verde County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Del Rio was 5.2% in August 2026, and Val Verde County had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then government.
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. Del Rio is a city on the Texas border and the largest town in Val Verde County. Its residents are younger than in most of the country, and household incomes are close to the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in government, in restaurants and hotels, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Del Rio are the San Felipe-Del Rio school district, Val Verde Regional Medical Center and Walmart. Jobs across the county have slipped a little over the past year, and commutes are short.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Whitehead Memorial Museum is a local museum. A longer drive away, Amistad Reservoir and the surrounding Amistad National Recreation Area offer open water and protected shoreline, and Fort Clark is a historic fort. Winters are mild with little or no snow, and summers get very hot, so cooler months suit time outdoors.
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- 12,407households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Val Verde County had 18,355 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 68° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 101° and lows near 79°. About 20 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Del Rio International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Del Rio
- San Felipe-del RIO CisdSchool district1,497FTE
- VAL Verde Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital702FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters352
- De La Paz Cleaning and Rental ServicesBuilding cleaning services, janitorial235
- Del Rio I EnterprisesNursing homes85
- Del RIOMail and parcel delivery53
- Touchstone CommunitiesConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals53
- Biomat USABlood and organ banks38
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 868 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Del Rio’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Val Verde County and the Del Rio, TX metro.
Del Rio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Del Rio$204,971
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Del Rio listings, and the typical home goes pending in 91 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Del Rio14.46%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Del Rio91
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Del Rio316
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Del Rio45
Zip codes with a Del Rio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Del Rio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.