Dilley, Texas.
Typical home $149,689 (+0.4% in a year). Pearsall, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $147 (-16%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $658 +0%
- $149,031$149,689 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.
- Dilley$786
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dilley, TX rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Dilley, Frio County, Texas
Dilley is a city of 3,274 people in Frio County. Unemployment in Frio County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Frio County work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Dilley is a small Texas city in Frio County, home to a modest community of residents who are neither especially young nor especially old. Homes here are priced below what many Americans pay, and incomes in the county are on the lower side compared with much of the country. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a moderate amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in government, with others in professional and business services. Few work from home, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults. Across Frio County, some of the largest workplaces are NexTier Completion Solutions, which supports oil and gas operations, along with Pearsall ISD and Dilley ISD.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the Leona River is a short drive away. Hondo Creek and Seco Creek are both a longer drive from town, and each is a waterway worth the trip for those who like to explore the countryside.
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- 1,096households
- 17%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What people in Frio County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Frio County had 6,381 jobs in 2025, 1.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 74°. About 25 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dilley weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Frio County
- NexTier Completion SolutionsSupport activities for oil and gas operations425
- Pearsall ISDSchool district321FTE
- Dilley ISDSchool district184FTE
- Frio Regional HospitalCritical access hospital133FTE
- Pearsall Nursing and Rehabilitation Center125
- WalmartDiscount department stores84
- WilliamsOil and gas field services on a contract basis71
- South Texas Electric CoopTransmission of electric power42
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 830 people in all across the county; Dilley has none of its own. 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
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of DilleyRelatively moderate
- Lightningrelatively high in parts of DilleyRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Dilley’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 Frio County and the Pearsall, TX metro.
Dilley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dilley$149,689
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dilley11
Zip codes with a Dilley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dilley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.