Edcouch, Texas.
Typical home $140,442 (+4.2% in a year). McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$481 (+188%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,620 +4%
- $134,822$140,442 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,842 +50%
- $93,600$140,442 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.
- Edcouch$737
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Edcouch, TX rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Edcouch, Hidalgo County, Texas
Edcouch is a city of 2,732 people in Hidalgo County. 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 people in Hidalgo 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Edcouch is a small city in Hidalgo County, in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Few adults here hold a four-year degree compared with the country as a whole, and the typical home is valued well below what is common nationally. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and almost no snow, while summers turn hot, with August the warmest month, and the year brings a modest amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in professional and business services. Across Hidalgo County, some of the largest workplaces are school districts such as Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD and La Joya ISD, along with The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the county has added jobs over the past year. Few residents work from home, and the typical trip to work is of moderate length.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge and Estero Llano Grande State Park are both protected areas, each a longer drive away. The Museum of South Texas History is also a longer drive away, for a day indoors with the region's past.
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- 1,068households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 20 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Hidalgo County 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 49°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 75°. About 25 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Santa Rosa Wnw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hidalgo County
- Idea Public SchoolsSchool district8,946FTE
- Edinburg CisdSchool district4,877FTE
- Pharr-san Juan-alamo ISDSchool district4,635FTE
- The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyUniversity or college4,454
- Doctors Hospital at RenaissanceGeneral hospital4,426FTE
- La Joya ISDSchool district3,870FTE
- Mcallen ISDSchool district3,426FTE
- South Texas Health SystemGeneral hospital2,703FTE
School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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 wavesVery high
- HurricanesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Edcouch’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.
Edcouch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Edcouch$140,442
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Edcouch listings — 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.
- Edcouch16.50%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Edcouch30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Edcouch4
Zip codes with a Edcouch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Edcouch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.