Freer, Texas.
Typical home $76,354 (-0.8% in a year). Alice, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$105 (+36%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Down $639 -1%
- $76,993$76,354 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.
- Freer$401
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Freer, TX fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Freer, Duval County, Texas
Freer is a city of 2,461 people in Duval County. Unemployment in Duval County was 5.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Duval County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Freer is a small city in Duval County in South Texas, home to a young population compared with much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and homes here cost less than in most of the country, so the town is more affordable than many places. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the winters are mild while the summers are long and very hot, with little or no snow and modest rainfall through the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and others in farming and mining, in shops, or in the building trades. Across Duval County, the largest workplaces include the school districts of San Diego, Freer and Benavides, along with Windsor Nursing and Rehabilitation of San Diego. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Freer is a quiet place, and days here tend to follow the rhythm of school, work and neighbors who know one another. The mild winters make for pleasant time outdoors in the cooler months, while summer afternoons are best spent indoors or in the shade.
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- 10%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 8%work from home
What people in Duval County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Duval County had 3,706 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 66° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 73°. About 25 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Freer weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Duval County
- San Diego ISDSchool district214FTE
- Freer ISDSchool district127FTE
- Benavides ISDSchool district64FTE
- Windsor Nursing and Rehabilitation of San Diego63
- AramarkFood service contractors25
- PAY and SaveGrocery stores25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 113 people in all across the county; Freer has one of its own. 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
- HailRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Freer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. 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 Duval County and the Alice, TX metro.
Freer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Freer$76,354
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Freer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Freer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.