Kirby, Texas.
Typical home $168,524 (-1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,469 . San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$392 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,857 -1%
- $170,380$168,524 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $7,399 +5%
- $161,125$168,524 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.
- Kirby$885
- Texas$1,556
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 77 years.
Typical home values in Kirby, TX fell 1.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kirby, Bexar County, Texas
Kirby is a city of 8,142 people in Bexar County. Half its households earn more than $55,532 a year and half less, against $72,341 across Bexar County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Bexar County was 4.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kirby is a small city within Bexar County, close to San Antonio. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's, with typical home values and rents that sit within reach of many households. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in many places, and the population is neither especially young nor especially old.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Bexar County, some of the largest workplaces are Northside ISD, North East ISD and Methodist Hospital. The typical commute is a moderate one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. San Antonio's best-known sights are a short drive away, including the Alamodome, a stadium, and the Tower of the Americas, a tourist attraction. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, a protected area, is also a short drive away. For time on the water, the Medina River is a longer drive away. Winters are mild and summers are hot, with little or no snow.
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- 2,849households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Bexar County had 937,109 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 63° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 95° and lows near 74°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Antonio Incarnate Word weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bexar County
- Northside ISDSchool district13,593FTE
- North East ISDSchool district8,206FTE
- Methodist HospitalGeneral hospital7,499FTE
- San Antonio ISDSchool district7,213FTE
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San AntonioUniversity or college6,957
- University Health SystemGeneral hospital6,741FTE
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs5,367
- Compass ConnectionsChild guidance agencies5,355
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,376 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 240,416 people in all across the county; Kirby has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- HailRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kirby’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Bexar County and the San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX metro.
Kirby home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kirby$168,524
- Texas$296,424
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kirby 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.
- Kirby29.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kirby25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Kirby address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kirby — 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.