Hidalgo, Texas.
Typical home $189,378 (-2.4% in a year). McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$543 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,728 -2%
- $194,106$189,378 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,214 +25%
- $151,164$189,378 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.
- Hidalgo$994
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Hidalgo, TX fell 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hidalgo, Hidalgo County, Texas
Hidalgo is a city of 13,964 people in Hidalgo County. Half its households earn more than $59,441 a year and half less, against $54,338 across Hidalgo County; 21% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% 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 transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Hidalgo is a city on the Rio Grande, in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. It is a younger place than most, with a lower median age than the country as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, though a sizable part of residents still live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by a minority of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by transport, warehouses and utilities, shops, and the building trades. Across Hidalgo County, some of the largest workplaces are Idea Public Schools, Edinburg Cisd and Doctors Hospital at Renaissance. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Nature is close at hand: Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge and the National Butterfly Center, both protected areas, are a short drive away, as is McAllen Botanical Gardens. The Border Theater is also a short drive away. Winters are mild, summers are very hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
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- 3,909households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 21%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 6%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 73° and lows near 53°; warmest in August, with highs near 100° and lows near 79°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mcallen Miller International Airport weather station, 5 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
- HailRelatively moderate
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hidalgo’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.
Hidalgo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hidalgo$189,378
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Hidalgo listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Hidalgo15.91%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hidalgo55
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hidalgo12
Zip codes with a Hidalgo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hidalgo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.