El Indio, Texas.
Typical home $197,253 (-6.5% in a year). Eagle Pass, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$382 (+58%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $13,603 -6%
- $210,856$197,253 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.
- El Indio$1,035
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in El Indio, TX fell 6.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in El Indio, Maverick County, Texas
El Indio, in Maverick County, had 182 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Maverick County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 2.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Maverick 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. El Indio is a very small community in Maverick County, Texas, with far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are valued below what many Americans pay, and across Maverick County household incomes run below those in much of the country. Winters are mild, summers are very hot, and rain is light, with little or no snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in government. Across Maverick County, jobs have grown a little over the past year, though unemployment remains higher than in many parts of the country, though it has eased from a year earlier. Among the county's largest workplaces are Eagle Pass ISD, H-E-B and Fort Duncan Medical Center.
Things to do. Fort Duncan, a historic fort, is a longer drive away and gives a look at the area's military past. Elm Creek, a river, is also a longer drive away, and is a place to spend time near the water.
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What people in Maverick County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Maverick County had 18,991 jobs in 2025, 2.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 64° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 99° and lows near 74°. About 21 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Eagle Pass 3N weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Maverick County
- Eagle Pass ISDSchool district1,894FTE
- Deployed ServicesFacilities support services678
- H-E-BRetail429
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters372
- Fort Duncan Medical CenterGeneral hospital320FTE
- MicroStar Quality ServicesMetals service centers240
- Maverick Nursing and Rehabilitation Center121
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter109
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,168 people in all across the county; El Indio 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in El Indio’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 Maverick County and the Eagle Pass, TX metro.
El Indio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- El Indio$197,253
- 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.
- El Indio5
Zip codes with a El Indio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls El Indio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.