Ira, Texas.
Typical home $179,227 (+8.1% in a year). Snyder, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$272 (+41%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Up $13,364 +8%
- $165,863$179,227 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $32,321 -15%
- $211,548$179,227 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.
- Ira$941
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Ira, TX rose 8.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ira, Scurry County, Texas
The Census does not count Ira on its own, so the figures here are Scurry County's. Half the county's households earn more than $60,039 a year and half less; 12% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in Scurry County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Scurry County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ira is a small community in Scurry County, on the high plains of West Texas. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with snow rare and modest rain spread through the year. Most homes across the county are lived in by their owners, and the town is close to one another in the way small rural places often are.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in government and local shops. Farming, forestry and mining also provide work across the county. Jobs grew over the past year, and unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. For outdoor time, Lake Colorado City State Park is a park a longer drive away. Wildhorse Creek, a river, and Champion Creek Reservoir are also a longer drive away and offer water for a day out.
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- 5,876households
- 36.9median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Scurry County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Scurry County had 6,621 jobs in 2025, 3.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 70°. About 2 inches of snow and 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Snyder weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Scurry County
- Snyder ISDSchool district359FTE
- Western Texas CollegeTwo-year college231
- D.m. Cogdell Memorial HospitalCritical access hospital221FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters213
- United SupermarketsSupermarket124
- WL Plastics - SnyderFittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing57
- Patterson-UTI EnergyWell drilling on a contract basis54
- Hermleigh ISDSchool district42FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 575 people in all. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Scurry County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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 Scurry County and the Snyder, TX metro.
Ira home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ira$179,227
- 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.
Zip codes with a Ira address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ira — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.