Idalou, Texas.
Typical home $263,161 (+10.7% in a year). Lubbock, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,444 +11%
- $237,716$263,161 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,299 +27%
- $206,862$263,161 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.
- Idalou$1,381
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Idalou, TX rose 10.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Idalou, Lubbock County, Texas
Idalou is a city of 2,193 people in Lubbock County. Unemployment in Lubbock County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then other services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Idalou is a small city on the South Plains of West Texas, close enough to Lubbock that daily life tends to run through the larger city. Home values here are well above what the county's household incomes might suggest, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cool and fairly dry, with a little snow, while summers are hot.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in other services, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and a small group work from home. The biggest employers across Lubbock County include Texas Tech University, University Medical Center and Lubbock ISD, and the county's job count grew slightly last year.
Things to do. A short drive away are Joyland Amusement Park, the Silent Wings Museum and the American Windmill Museum, which makes for an easy afternoon out. Yellow House Draw, a river, is also a short drive off. A longer drive takes you to the Buddy Holly Center, a museum.
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- 834households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lubbock County had 153,482 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 27°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 69°. About 7 inches of snow and 18 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lubbock weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lubbock County
- Texas Tech UniversityUniversity or college6,050
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences CenterUniversity or college5,233
- University Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,486FTE
- Lubbock ISDSchool district3,386FTE
- Covenant Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,888FTE
- Frenship ISDSchool district1,346FTE
- Lubbock-cooper ISDSchool district1,200FTE
- Covenant Children's HospitalChildren's hospital849FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 281 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 32,051 people in all across the county; Idalou has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- HailVery high
- Strong windVery high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Idalou’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 Lubbock County and the Lubbock, TX metro.
Idalou home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Idalou$263,161
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Idalou 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.
- Idalou22.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Idalou28
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Idalou6
Zip codes with a Idalou address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Idalou — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.