Donna, Texas.
Typical home $147,708 (+2.8% in a year), asking rent $976 . McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$474 (+157%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,087 +3%
- $143,621$147,708 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $40,986 +38%
- $106,722$147,708 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.
- Donna$775
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Donna, TX rose 2.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Donna, Hidalgo County, Texas
Donna is a city of 16,797 people in Hidalgo County. Half its households earn more than $40,438 a year and half less, against $54,338 across Hidalgo County; 41% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Hidalgo County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Donna is a city in Hidalgo County, in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. It is a young town, with a median age well below what is typical for much of the country, and many households are headed by people early in their working lives. Incomes run below the county's, and a large share of residents live below the poverty line, though most homes are lived in by their owners.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in the building trades. Donna ISD, Packaging Corporation of America and H-E-B are among the largest workplaces in the town. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people travel to work rather than working from home, with a commute of a fairly typical length.
Things to do. Winters are mild, with cool nights, and summers are hot, which makes the protected areas close by pleasant in the cooler months. Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge and Estero Llano Grande State Park are both a short drive away, and Arroyo Colorado, a river, is close by too. For a museum visit, the Museum of South Texas History is a longer drive away.
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- 4,924households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 41%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Hidalgo County had 296,499 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 71° and lows near 50°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 76°. About 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Weslaco weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Donna
- Donna ISDSchool district2,358FTE
- Packaging Corporation of America124
- H-E-BRetail109
- DonnaMail and parcel delivery31
- Hospitality Staffing IIHotel30
- Austin Traffic Signal Construction CompanySign erection, highway, roads street or bridge26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 320 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
- Cold wavesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- Hailrelatively high in parts of DonnaRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of DonnaRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively 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 Donna’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Hidalgo County and the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro.
Donna home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Donna$147,708
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Donna listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Donna20.12%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Donna155
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Donna29
Zip codes with a Donna address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Donna — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.